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Plaid:  So, who is Melissa Wolfe? Where did you grow up? Go to school? What was your career before SMS®? What prompted you to change course?

Melissa: I was born in St. Louis, MO, where my parents were both b […]

Every year of my young adult life, I reluctantly spent several weeks before year-end writing my goals, specifically my career goals for the coming year. Being the kind of person that always preferred being […]

The last couple of months, we have been exploring what I have dubbed, The Caring Quotient, the mathematical equation that shows the relationship between how you serve others while providing for your own self-care. […]

Elizabeth Lions talks about how women are really perceived at work – and how to make adjustments in your own career

If women feel limited by their opportunities and flexibility at work, why aren’t more women chasing entrepreneurship? Seventy-five percent of businesses are male-owned, which might give the impression men are more […]

I’ve always been a little jealous of the confident ones.

You know her…The room mom every year. The president of all the clubs. The mom who could work a room just from second nature.

It just never came t […]

When I sat to write this week, all I could think of was the Journey I took some years back wherein I climbed Mount Sinai. All I could see in front of my eyes was the view from the top of that Mountain…and for w […]

My son came to me in tears. He told me he had been on his computer looking up the average weight for a 10 year old boy. He said his best friend had been repeatedly telling him he was fat.

I was devastated.

I […]

Like many people, I’m all about growing and changing and self-improvement.  A video from Trent Shelton gets me so pumped up that I feel like I can do anything!  A motivational message from Tony Robbins will have m […]

Recently, I took a mini vacation with my family. While it was super enjoyable, it was also quite different. You see, normally whenever I travel, I’m always researching ahead of time, where are the best places to […]

Whether for pleasure or business, traveling can be challenging for those working hard to stay sober. Traveling can feel like the ultimate test of your sobriety.  With a little planning and foresight, you can […]

Elizabeth really lays it all out there, boldly talking about why women aren’t in leadership and the pain of working with women you don’t like.

For more about Elizabeth’s philosophy and some in […]

In my heart lives a wanderlust spirit that longs to explore, to travel. It started when I was born into a military family where with each move, acceptance and change was just part of life.  I truly believe the […]

Really all we’ve got is right now in this moment that we are experiencing, feeling, and living. My mind is constantly thinking about things that have happened in the past or will happen in the future. And, you […]

The saying that friends are with us for a reason, a season, or for a lifetime… well, I think it is the exact same with books. Unfortunately, for way too many years, I considered books and the need to read them t […]

I want to write to you today about words.

Yep, words.

And not just 4-letter ones either, though often they are my favourites 😉.

You see, today I sat here a full 45 minutes pondering the blank page be […]

Plaid: When you aren’t in the kitchen, where would we find you and what would you be doing?

Callie: Drinking some vino and snacking on some appetizers at a local Fort Worth restaurant.

Plaid: What was […]

I love to people watch. Wherever I am, I tend to absorb as much of my surroundings as possible. I watch and wonder what made one person think the outfit they are wearing is “the outfit,” or I wonder what is cau […]