Starting A Business To Do What You Love? Why You Could End Up Hating It
by Rachel McDermott | Featured Contributor I have always loved cooking. I remember spending hours pouring over a Boys & Girls cookbook. I still have it, actually. My first cookbook is full of...
View ArticleConfessions of an Entrepreneur with a “Designer Lifestyle” by @DIYMFA
Portable “office” in a tote bag. by Gabriela Pereira | Featured Contributor By all accounts, I’m living the “designer lifestyle.” I run an online business and have the flexibility to fit my work...
View ArticleSometimes Work Interferes With Life—It Shouldn’t Be the Other Way Around by...
by Heather K. Terry | Featured Contributor This past week, I’ve been busy planning an international business trip that, truth be told, I don’t really feel much like going on. Not because I don’t love...
View ArticleBe Selfless, Not Selfish: Take a Break by @ArtistThink
by Carrie Brummer | Featured Contributor One of the largest obstacles I hear from people interested in trying the arts is a lack of time. They are wrong. It’s not that we don’t have free time, it’s how...
View ArticleHow Never Good Enough Increases Rejection
by Rachel McDermott | Featured Contributor Photo By Todd Huffman It was painful to watch. One of the chefs on Chopped, Chef Insecure (not his real name), was totally down on himself. He heard his Dad...
View Article80 Ways to Enjoy Creative Release by @ArtistThink
by Carrie Brummer | Featured Contributor I want to reach as many busy business women as I can to share a message of self-love and self-care. This message is often at odds with our actions. (I mean,...
View ArticleDo You Have Creative Regret? by @ArtistThink
Someone I was friends with found out they were dying. I won’t lie, while I appreciated their humor, I knew they weren’t the easiest person to get along with; many colleagues struggled to work with them...
View ArticleStop Searching For Balance in The Wrong Places, Just Make Time For You! by...
by Nancy Laws | Featured Contributor One of the reasons I revamped Afro-Chic Mompreneur, was to have an open ended discussion on the work/life balance dilemma, that every Mompreneur deals with on a...
View ArticleQuick Guide: How To Make Life Easier With Negotiation by @DevonMSmiley
by Devon Smiley | Featured Contributor We’re busy bees. More and more, blending our personal and professional lives is unavoidable. And with so much to juggle, how can we optimize each of...
View ArticleGeorgia Legislators Ignore FDA and Approve Cannabis Oil by @1000Girlfriends
by Kathy Scott | Featured Contributor As a mom, I wonder sometimes about how much I need to own it on various issues affecting my teen, especially as it relates to marijuana. With the marketing of...
View ArticleChoosing Your Path by @ArtsyShark
by Carolyn Edlund/Featured Contributor My husband and I recently had dinner with several retired couples that we know, and the subject of work came up. It turned out that each person at that dinner had...
View ArticleThe Key to Career/Motherhood Balance? by @ENAMOURstyle
by June Cruz | Featured Contributor This is exactly the type of article I would have clicked on a year and a half ago, while six months pregnant, trying to figure out how I was going to balance a...
View ArticleHere’s What No One Tells You About Work Life Balance by @valjonescoach
by Valerie Jones | Featured Contributor “Take care of yourself. When you don’t sleep, eat crap, don’t exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions...
View Article10 Tips for Silencing Your Inner Critic by @LUCYrk78
by Lucy Rendler-Kaplan | Featured Contributor We all have it. That little inner voice that creeps up in the most inopportune times. The one that tells us not to ask for the promotion, that we aren’t...
View ArticleStop Chasing Balance. What Are Your Priorities? by @bytracyj
What are your key priorities for career and home? by Tracy Jensen | Featured Contributor When I got divorced a few years ago, going back to work, which was something I’d always wanted theoretically...
View ArticleBeginning to Meditate by @LUCYrk78
by Lucy Rendler-Kaplan | Featured Contributor How do you feel about meditation? I’ll start: for me, it was very hard to get into. Things are generally harder the more you think about them, as opposed...
View ArticleFrom Resistance to Change: Tolerating Exercise to Build Good Habits by...
by Maya Chendke | Featured Contributor “Eat well!” “Be mindful!” “Exercise!” We should all be doing these things – things that we know are good for us, will improve our quality of life and things...
View ArticleThe Entrepreneur’s Work-Travel Survival Guide by @mayachendke
by Maya Chendke | Featured Contributor Traveling for work can be exciting when it’s shiny and new. There’s the excitement of seeing new places, earning better frequent-flier tiers, and the fresh...
View Article5 Ways Busy Professionals Can Find Time to Socialize
by Marissa Russell Having a strong social support system is critical to our emotional and psychological wellbeing, yet when we become active in our careers it often slips to the bottom of our...
View ArticleHow Entrepreneurs Can Sneak in Healthy Habits during Holiday Parties by...
by Michelle Fav | Featured Contributor There are so many reasons to celebrate and congregate this time of year — which can be bittersweet if you’re trying to build a business and lead a healthy...
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