I am currently working with a high-level software engineer in Silicon Valley who has had enough! She has been with her current employer for 3 years and consulted with them for almost 2 years before that. She thrives when solving...

I have been struggling these past few weeks. I wake up many mornings with this low-level sadness and anxiousness that requires me to use every tactic I have to get level:  Prayer, journaling, walking, doing something  productive, talking with my husband,...

I am going to say something pretty radical here so get ready! If we had listened to the millennials, we would have been better prepared to navigate through the changes that living through a pandemic has required us to make. I read a...

In our most recent meeting of The “IT” Community, a gathering of Women in Information Technology building careers and lives they love (email us at [email protected] for details), we started our introductions talking about something good that was happening for each of us...

I am currently watching a house on a corner in our neighborhood being built. They tore down a ranch that was there and now are building new. As I go past it, I have noticed an excitement in myself. I...

I had two different experiences with people and their dogs that taught me a lot about how to handle personal crisis while at work. The situations were similar. Two co-workers had dogs that were very sick. The dogs were at the...

I was recently asked about all the writing I do. How do I come up with my ideas?  Do I find it a hard process? Good questions! I had not really thought about the HOW before. Until recently, I did not even...

Here is a story I recently read on the interwebs. (There was no author’s name given). A father said to his daughter, “You graduated with honors, here is a car I acquired many years ago. It is several years old....

I recently read an article in Oprah Magazine (the one with Breonna Taylor on it – the only cover in the magazines’ history that did not feature Oprah) about Gabriel Dawe. Gabriel grew up in Mexico City and when he...

Strap on your “Anything Is Possible” wings because I had a mystical experience that gave me another way to further my mission to Defy Career Hustle Culture AND have Career Success! (Read the Career Hustle Culture blog). I was out and about in my car,...