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The Women Who Refuse to Look Away March is National Social Work Month — a time set aside to recognize a profession that rarely seeks applause and often works where the lights are d […]

The Five Percent Quadrant We all want answers to certain questions about money. Where is the wealth of this country and who controls it? Can we as individuals increase the s […]

The Grace of the Fall: What Lindsey Vonn Taught Me About Heartbreak Getting a front-row seat to the fall, someone else’s heartbreak is never easy, especially when that person has spent their entire life training f […]

Which Woman Has Inspired You Most? March is Women’s History Month, and every year the question comes up: Which woman has inspired you most? My answer is always the same — my mot […]

A Story of Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Paying It Forward I was 22 years old, wearing a camp T-shirt covered in Sharpie signatures, when I learned another woman had nominated me to be her boss. I […]

Ella Baker: The Woman Who Proved Leadership Isn’t Loud History often remembers the microphone holders. The speechmakers. The names etched into monuments. But movements—real ones—are rarely built tha […]

Learning to Be Held I recently took on a teaching assignment at a location I reach by train. It’s not new for me. I’ve ridden this line before. But there had been a l […]

Self-Directed Learning Financial literacy is competence in and a knowledge of money. This competence and knowledge is anchored in the skill of self-directed […]

Vision VS. Resolution I sort of gave up on New Year’s Resolutions several years ago. Mine always seemed to center around my health and my weight, which, let’s be hon […]

The Meeting of the Minds: Choosing Friendship In my mid-thirties, I took the risk of making a new friendship. There was a point in time where I started losing female friends due to distance or […]

Healthy Relationships, Clear Boundaries, and the Freedom to Let Them Today, I’m leaving behind the need to be everything to everyone in order to feel secure in my relationships. I’m taking the wisdom that bou […]

Boundaries Aren’t Walls—They’re Wisdom For many of us, the word boundaries comes with emotional baggage. It can sound harsh. Cold. Defensive. Like something you put up […]

Starting Over Through Rest Twenty years ago, I accidentally discovered something about myself. I worked for an agency that closed the week of Christmas and New Year’s, so I s […]

Back to the Basics of Community Sitting in our annual HOA community meeting, fighting through fatigue and hunger, I struggled to pay attention. This meeting represented important […]

Manifest It, Sis: The Vision You See Daily Is the Life You Build For six years, I have started each year the same way. I hang up my new vision board. Not one that ends up forgotten in a drawer. Mine lives on my […]

Chasing Transformation A Fresh start Without the Noise I know a lot of people think horoscopes are a bunch of hoopla. I’m supposed to be entering my Villain Era in 20 […]

Starting Over Without Burning Out: The Three Rules No One Warns You About There’s something suspiciously glamorous about the idea of “starting over.” New chapter! New mindset! New you! Until, of course, you reali […]

Between What Was and What’s Next: Pausing to Reflect “Take a long pause…breathe and know that things are happening for you and not to you” ~Ashton Kutcher At this stage of life, I’ve realized the wor […]

Maybe You Don’t Need Another System For a long time, I believed the right system could save me. The right planner, the right morning routine. The right app that would finally keep all […]

Do You Want to Play? In my quest for a part-time job this year I landed a retail position at The Christmas Store, the largest one in the state of Texas. It opens July […]