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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....
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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...
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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,...
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I recently started working with the App called Lose It!. I had been slowly but surely losing weight for almost two years. I adjusted what I ate. I was eating less breads, pasta and sugar and more proteins, fruits and veggies....
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For all of March and April and most of May, I was busy at work. There was not much recruiting going on, but I had lots of projects to work on (including wrapping up the final details on Take Charge: Job...
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This past weekend we had our monthly meetup. Our topic was More Fun From 9-5 and we talked about the benefits of fun, how much fun we currently have in our day and how to bring more fun into our work. A...
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I was recently talking with a coaching client whose job has significantly changed since Covid19. She has been moved to a new team helping to develop a new product. Doesn’t sound so bad, right? Wrong! She LOVED what she was...
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What I know about astrology can be summed up in one word: Capricorn. That’s my sign. As a Capricorn I am supposedly ambitious, persistent and reliable. Are these labels actually true? Are all Capricorns ambitious? Maybe, maybe not. I just...
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At our recent Women in Tech Meetup we were talking about our dream career.  The question I asked was, “What is the one thing you can do right now, that at the end of your career you will look back and...
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I was talking recently with a woman who was feeling frustrated in both her job search and her career trajectory overall. When I asked her what she felt was getting in her way she immediately said ageism. She felt that...
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