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AI is Reshaping Women’s Careers. How to Leverage the Opportunity and Fight The Threat…

by Solange Lopes | March 26, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I remember having passionate conversations with my husband about artificial intelligence (AI). A progressive adopter of new technologies, he couldn’t understand my initial resistance to AI. I, as a strong believer in human creativity and intellect, and a staunch...

What No One Tells You About Parenting Teens as a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | March 11, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I can’t distinctly recall when it happened exactly. Somewhere between the “tween” and teen stage, my daughter refused to wear dresses. Or at least the dresses I would buy her. While seemingly insignificant, this drew a pretty significant line in the sand of my...

How to reclaim your own brand of leadership in uncertain times

by Solange Lopes | March 5, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

Here I was, standing in front of a full classroom of students, not quite fully ready to step into this new academic career. Everything in my past experience, from shying away from speaking up, to a predominantly behind-the-scenes corporate career, seemed to go against...

The Feminization of Wealth: How to Reshape Your Financial Power As a Working Woman

by Solange Lopes | February 12, 2025 | LIFESTYLE, Make More Money | 0 Comments

The other day, I innocently asked Dear Daughter why she did not ask me to go to the store instead of her dad. To which she quickly responded: “Mom, you’re kind of cheap…” After the initial maternal hurt and shock, coupled with the realization that my dear child...

On Integrating Motherhood and Career As a Working Mom

by Solange Lopes | January 22, 2025 | Career | 0 Comments

I was recently on a trip back home to Senegal to visit my aging parents. Sandwiched in between taking care of my parents, mothering my teens from a distance, and intermittently checking my work email, I realized how much motherhood had evolved for me. I was literally...

Back to (better) Work: How to Restructure the Way we Work as Working women and Moms

by Solange Lopes | Aug 8, 2023

Get up, take care of the home, go to work, come back home, take care of the home and family, and do it all over again the next day… For many working women and moms, this is the song of dance we’ve been accustomed to for generations. Despite the advances towards gender...

TCS Podcast Episode 45: It’s a Cruel Summer Ceiling for Working Moms!

by Solange Lopes | Aug 4, 2023

In this episode of the TCS podcast, I’m chatting about the cruel summer ceiling for working moms (in my best Taylor Swift voice). By summer ceiling, I mean all the obstacles facing working moms during the summer months as they juggle increased childhood, caregiving, and household responsibilities due to school closures, with career and personal demands.

TCS Podcast Episode 44: 10 tips to become a PhD Mama

by Solange Lopes | Aug 4, 2023

In this episode of the TCS podcast, I discuss 10 tips to become a PhD mama, if that is your wish or if you’re currently going through the process yourself, or know someone who is…

TCS Podcast Episode 43: Career Fulfillment or Career Prestige?

by Solange Lopes | Aug 4, 2023

In this episode of the TCS podcast, I’m asking the question: “Career fulfillment or career prestige?”

The Summer Ceiling for Working Moms is Real

by Solange Lopes | Aug 1, 2023

The summer ceiling is a harsh reality for working mothers during the summer months. Rooted in the scarcity (or lack thereof) of childcare, caregiving and household support, it is a reality that harshly pulls working mothers between family, career and even finances. Yet, it is a reality that also calls us to consider the social, economic and political factors behind it, and take action by removing the guilt, rethinking the structure of our work and lives, and getting engaged.

TCS Podcast Episode 42: 7 principles to unleash more of who you are (the book)

by Solange Lopes | Apr 20, 2023

In this podcast episode, I introduce The Corporate Sister book #2: "More: The Journey of Unleashing More of Who You Are". (available on Amazon). In it, I discuss the 7 principles outlined in the book, from welcoming and embracing disruption and change, to...

10 tips to complete a PhD as a busy working mom

by Solange Lopes | Apr 15, 2023

Going back to school as a working mom is a challenge. Enrolling into a PhD program and actually completing it while raising kids, taking care of the home and being in a relationship or partnership is not for the faint of heart. As a matter of fact, it requires the...

How to build a fulfilling and authentic career as a working woman and mom

by Solange Lopes | Mar 28, 2023

When we think about building a great career, fulfillment and authenticity are usually not the first things that come to mind. I remember while growing up overhearing adults around me talk about what makes a great career. What I heard, and what stayed with me for the...

7 principles to unleash more of who you are (The Book)

by Solange Lopes | Mar 7, 2023

Have you ever said to yourself, whether it was as related to a life or work situation, there’s got to be MORE? Have you ever been so sick and tired of being sick and tired of the status quo in your workplace and wondered if there is more to your career? Have you been...

“Am I a token?” Tokenism and Black women in the workplace

by Solange Lopes | Feb 21, 2023

“Am I a token?” This is a question that many Black women, and women of color in general, ask themselves in the workplace. A rather difficult one that may awake some of the most primal fears in them, from the fear of not belonging to that of not having much value… The...