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The One and Only Way to Change Past Career Regrets

The One and Only Way to Change Past Career Regrets I was working with a coaching client and after the...

Empty Nester? Time for a Career Reset?

Empty Nester? Time for a Career Reset? I remember one typical, same old, same old day walking out of my...

3 Steps to Having Career Decisions That Flow

3 Steps to Having Career Decisions That Flow You may already know this, but the Chicago river runs in the...

How to Get Noticed in Your Career

How to Get Noticed in Your Career Can I be frank? I help a lot of women with their careers...

Career Advice From Emma Stone

I was listening to a recent interview on NPR with Emma Stone. She was talking about getting her big break...

Your Career Journey is Your Destination

During my meditation the other morning an airplane “flew across my mind” and I knew in an instant the message...

How My Relationship Breakup Cured My Imposter Syndrome

This is a blog about a relationship break up. Not directly about career or job search yet totally about career...

Your New Career Beginning

This poem reminds me of me. It reminds me of you. Our journeys to careers and lives we love. Where...

Empty Nester? Time for a Career Reset?

Best Career Advice I Ever Got Was Actually How I Got Sober I am coming up on my sobriety anniversary...

Best Career Advice I Ever Got Was Actually How I Got Sober

I am coming up on my sobriety anniversary on the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday. This year that would be...

3 Different New Year’s Career Questions to Ask Yourself

Happy 2024! 2024 feels different to me already. More open. More expansive. And our approach to goal setting needs to...

A Simple 3-Step Process to Cure Career Decision Fatigue 4-Ever!

A Simple 3-Step Process to Cure Decision Fatigue 4-Ever! I just got done staring at my computer screen for almost...

Are You Willing to be UNCOMFORTABLE or INCONVENIENCED to Have Your Career Dream?

Are You Willing to be UNCOMFORTABLE or INCONVENIENCED to Have Your Career Dream? I’ve been putting off rejoining the health...

How to Stop Confusing the Universe and Get What You Really Want

My coaching client’s job wasn’t in jeopardy, but after the second round of layoffs something sparked inside of her. She...

How to Combat Career Ageism

You can’t avoid ageism. Like racism, sexism, weight-ism, ableism … ageism is real. Sadly, we live in a society that...

Are You Suffering from Career Dissonance?

Have you ever decided you wanted to lose weight? You set up your weight loss plan. You buy all the...

Do You Want Help Reaching Your Career Dream?

In case you have not heard😊:  I help Women in Tech (and tech-adjacent) careers remove the obstacles that hinder them...

❤️ 🔺 A Love Triangle: You, Money and Your Career ❤️ 🔺

Money is such a tricky subject. We have all kinds of stories that we have learned about money that have...

I’m curious, what’s your career dream?

If you knew what was getting in your way and could remove those obstacles and make your WILDEST career dream...

I’m Experiencing Career Lethargy

I’ve been feeling a bit lethargic 😞lately. I am in the midst of a career transformation from top-notch recruiter who...

💲How a Woman in Tech Made 10k in 5 Minutes💲

The day had arrived! The offer was in. My coaching client had negotiated an offer she was excited to accept....

Solve Your 9-5 Career Unhappiness

After the last session of my Career Reset program (next one starts October 17th), I asked the women to fill...

Wave Your Resignation Letter ✉ Like Your Freedom Flag 🏁

Change is never easy. Quitting your secure job to pursue a career you love? 😱 Yikes! Your brain resists it....

Women inTech! You are Hereby Granted Permission to Quit Corporate

Sometimes we just need a permission slip. Someone to say, “That thought you are having about wanting to quit your...

How Using Creativity Helped a Women in Tech to Stop Caring at Work and Get the Career She Really Wanted

We are getting ready to do another round of Using Creativity to Solve Your Career Dilemma this Thursday, Sept 7th...

3 Ways Women in Tech 🙋‍♀️ Can Find the Money 💲 to Quit Corporate👋

When I coach women in corporate who are thinking about finally taking their dream of becoming their own boss off...

Hey Woman in Tech! You CAN Become Your Own Boss (BYOB) 👑

You may think that because you have always worked in corporate America you don’t have the entrepreneurial skills to be...

Choose Career Door Number 3: Become Your Own Boss

Before I became an entrepreneur, I worked in corporate for 3 different companies. When I was laid off from my...

The catalyst that changed my career trajectory forever!

I remember walking into the small office that I shared with 4 other software sales reps – all guys. They...

What to Do When Your Brain 🧠 Says “Go After Your Career Dream Later”

Our brain likes to tell us that later is better for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes for no reason at...

Hold Your Career Vision Loosely AND Take Action

I often talk about a career transformation being similar to the transformation a caterpillar has before it becomes a butterfly....

You Only Have 1 Career Problem. Hint: It’s not money, time or your role

You feel overwhelmed, stuck or maybe hopeless in your career. You find yourself thinking: If only I made more money....

The Career Truth Bombs 💣💣💣 About You

You are capable. You are needed. You are a success. You are a happy recipient of exactly what you need...

What Sucks the Most in Your Career Right Now?

One of my favorite coaching questions to ask a coaching client is one I learned from Martha Beck.  “What sucks...

Constrain Your Creativity for More Career Ideas

What do I want to do next in my career?  With so many choices how do I decide?  What if...

How to Find the Answer to Your Career Dilemma in 24 Days!

I’m reading a book recommended by one of my Career Reset clients called Creative Thinkering. This book had me at...

Are You Keeping Your Career Dream a 🤫 Secret?

How do you feel about secrets? If you are a lover of books and movies like I am then you...

Your Career Happiness Number Starts at Age 47.2 

I read a recent article from Inc. that talked about the fact that starting at about 18 we become less...

Have You Tried Career Improvisation?

I recently hosted a workshop, called You in Demand. At the end of the workshop, I opened things up to...

12 Truths I Wish I Knew at the Beginning of my Career

I was thinking recently that I could have had way more career fun, peace, ease and success (on my terms)...

The Confidence Code

This quiz is not brand new. I created this quiz a few years ago because, well I love quizzes but...

What Stage of a Career Change are You In?

This quiz is not brand new. I created this quiz a few years ago because, well I love quizzes but...

How to Recover from a Failed Interview

“I screwed up the interview so badly. Those people must think I am an idiot”. Words from my client. She...

Does Your Career Have You Feeling Tied Up in Knots?

On a recent coaching call my client was concerned about an upcoming hard conversation she had to have. She could...

Me or ChatGPT? May The Best Blog Win!

ChatGPT is taking the world by storm. Some are excited by the possibilities and others are frightened. This is not...

3 Reasons (Actually Excuses) People Don’t Follow Their Career Dream

I recently asked this question on Facebook and LinkedIn, “What stops you from pursuing your career dream?”  Here were the 3...

Creating Career Change When You Don’t Wanna

I’ve been thinking about re-joining my gym. I am a walker. I love being outside. I love walking in nature,...

Career Change is HARD

I am a volunteer on the Fine and Cultural Arts Commission in my city. I am co-leading a pop art...

Is it a Me vs. Me Thing?

If you know me or have been reading my emails these last many years you know I am a huge...

Does Your Job Search Have You Running into Closed Doors?

I was talking with a coaching client last week and she said something very insightful. “I have been on a...

Find Your Career Magic Sauce

After being a high performer since the early days selling tech software and pivoting into entrepreneurship, I noticed my smile...

Are You Pursuing Fear-Based Career Goals?

Get ready for a glimpse into Laurie’s 🧠 brain. (You have been warned). It was suggested to me that if...

You Have Been Prepared for Your Next Career Move!

Steve Jobs famously said, “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you...

I Love Your Luggage but Your Career Baggage Has To GO!

If you have ever seen the movie Steel Magnolias you may remember the line from Olympia Dukakis when she says...

Your Next Career Move Is Up To You

I am becoming an even more amazing coach for all of you at a coaching convention! That is why you...

5 Random Career Tips that Can Change Everything!

Over my years of recruiting, sitting on panels, attending conferences, and reading up on all things career and job search...

Get Out of Career Jail & Get Your Career Drive Back

What is career freedom? Often, we think career freedom is when we have ample resources, safety, security and surety. We...

Are you living a contingent career?

Are you living a contingent career? I’ll do that when… How often have you thought, “I’ll take that special vacation...

I Believe in Your Career Dream!

It is Sunday morning. You had a productive week at work, you got a lot done over the weekend and...

What if More Rest is NOT the Answer?

I was talking over dinner with a dear friend. I asked her about her work. She had changed jobs several...

How Toilet Paper Can Trigger a Career Reset

This past weekend I was restocking the bathrooms with toilet paper. When I got to the “kids” bathroom I realized...

Dear Diary, I want a new career!

Dear Diary, I am very grateful for my job. I appreciate my paycheck. Most days I like the people I...

Become a Career Non-Conformist

I have a coaching client who has taken what some might say is a non-conforming path in her career. Almost...

A Time-Traveling Career Woman in Tech

My coaching client, Jill (name changed to protect her time-traveling identity), came to our session feeling scared and worried. She...

Your Career Goals Should Inspire Not Nauseate

I was in a meeting the other day and overheard someone say that they had committed to a goal and...

Career Tip: Finishing 2022 Strong By Relaxing

One of my favorite poems, by Grant Lewi,  has been coming into my mind a lot lately. She was relaxed...

Boo! 👻👻👻 Are You Ghosting 👻👻👻 Your Recruiter?

I primarily recruit technologists and technology leaders for roles. Yes. If you are in technology, then you are part of...

1 Simple Shift to Change Your Worst Career Bad Habit

“I won’t sleep. I won’t eat healthily. Maybe I will hold off on this certification?” This is from a coaching...

Are You a Vending Machine For Your Team?

“I was the vending machine of answers for my team. And I was exhausted!” This is from a coaching client...

Are you in a Career 🌪 Hurricane?

Two weeks ago, I was looking forward to speaking at the Grace Hopper event (anitab.org) in Orlando before picking up...

Career Reset Strategy: Make Alternative Forms of 💰 Revenue

I’m on a bit of a mission. How to create alternative lines of revenue. Both for myself and my clients....

Emergency! I screwed up my interview!

This week, I was talking with a woman who thought she had screwed up her interview. When we dissected it,...

Using The Psychology of Choice in Your Job Search

I am working with a coaching client who has been getting ready to launch her job search.  For a while...

Quiet Quitting is Passive-Aggression by a Different Name

“Quiet quitting” is the phrase of the day. I have seen a few definitions. I am all for the quiet...

Labor Day was a Fight for Equity & Inclusion

THIS IS A REPLAY OF A PREVIOUS LABOR DAY BLOG. Great Advice Twice! We recently had our windows replaced and...

Career Tip: It’s Who You Don’t Know

In 1973, Mark Granovetter, Princeton and Harvard grad, American sociologist and professor at Stanford University, published a landmark study on the spread of...

I Got Nervous On My Interview…Now What?

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Career Skill: This or That?

This morning as I was doing my walk there was a large group of young children with soccer balls and...

💲💲💲 Web 3.0 Investing 👩🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏽👩🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Team Player

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What Career Support Do You REALLY Want?

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What Do You Really Mean When You Say You Want to Be a Leader?

I am working with a client on a job search who says she wants a leadership role. She has worked...

Your Back-To-The-Future 🏎 Career Moment

You may have been asked, or heard someone asked, “If you could talk to your younger self, what advice would...

Hey! I Got A Career Situation!

I have a friend who owned a lakehouse with her sibling for years. One day, the sibling decided they wanted...

How Do You Define Independence? 💰🖋🎨🏃‍♀️ 🚗🏳‍🌈🧡🙏

I was on a call with a coaching client last week. At the end of the call, I wished her...

HELP! The floor beneath my feet🦶🦶 is moving!

Over the last month, I’ve been experiencing low-level vertigo. If you’ve ever had vertigo, you know it’s very disconcerting. It...

How to Find Clarity on Your REAL Career Values

We often hear about how we should work for a company that is aligned with our values. A company whose...

If Your Career Dream Were an Animal 🦉🦁🐶🐸, What Would it Be?

I was at a recent webinar and the host had us do a writing exercise that, at first, I thought...

Is Your Career Dream TOO big?

I currently have a coaching client who has some big dreams. She also has lots of doubts. She is too...

4 Tips to Determining a Company Culture

On a recent call with a coaching client, we got to talking about her job search and preparing for her...

She wanted more money 💲💲…and asked for it!

I just finished up a Negotiation Strategy Session with a coaching client who was in the midst of changing jobs....

Redefining Your Definition of Career Success

If I asked you how you would know if you were successful in your career what would you say? Most...

Career Tip: A New Way to Get Things Done with Ease

This week I have to write 2 blogs instead of the one I normally write. As I was walking out...

25 Women Have their Salary Say 🎤

I am on a mission to increase every woman’s salary. As Lily Ledbetter states in the below article “…what you...

💔💔 I Broke My Job Search’s Heart 💔💔

In a recent coaching session, I asked my client what she wanted to work on, and she responded, “I want...

Equal Pay Day

On March 15th we recognized Equal Pay Day for Women in the Year of 2022. According to the AAUW (aauw.org), of...

🤷‍♂️ Do You Trust Your Career Decisions? 🤷‍♂️

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that two coaching clients came to me recently in a quandary. Their problem? They...

A Career Communication Tip: Green Words

Back at the beginning of my career, I sold software for Computer Associates. I had an old-school manager who was...

Career Compare and Despair

I was recently talking with a friend (more like bemoaning) about my career situation. Maybe you can relate. I was...

The Often-missed, Difference-maker in Your Successful Job Search

A job search has a lot of moving parts. I do not need to remind everyone of that. There are...

A Truffle Pig 🐷 and Your True Nature Career

I call myself a True Nature Career Coach. But the term “True Nature” can be unclear. If I said Negotiation...

Your Career Path is No Surprise to the Universe

I was on a call with a candidate that I was talking to about a possible job opportunity. My first...

How To Gain Career Clarity

I’m in a quandary. I have a simple yet difficult question I’ve been asking myself. Do I recruit AND coach...

Career Values versus Career Beliefs

I was reading a book by a woman who has dedicated her life and career to helping people eat better,...

1 Simple Daily Career Choice That Changes Everything

Listen up! Time for a 🎤 mic drop moment. While shoveling for the second time today I had a clearly...

How to Change Your Career Circumstances

I have gone down a rabbit hole. I admit it. I have become obsessed with figuring out how to uncover...

It Is Time To Ghost 👻 Your Career Self

We all grow. That is part of the human experience. We grow older. We grow taller. We grow in our...

A Year of Wild 🦁 Abandon

A-YO-WA! Yep. That is my new acronym that stands for A Year of Wild Abandon.  Can you feel it? I...

The Story of a Software Engineer and Imposter Syndrome

“I felt self-conscious, like I wasn’t pulling my weight” . “I felt like an imposter”. These were the first words...

Career Food For Thought

Which came first? The chicken or the…pig? I was reading a book recently and the author had a funny one-liner...

More Stinkin’ Thinkin’ Please!

I was listening to a radio program recently. A woman was interviewing folks and asking what their favorite sound was....

Career Truth: I Never Make Mistakes

I have been working with the concept that there are no mistakes. If you know me, you know that I...

How to Answer the Interview Q: “Tell me about yourself?”

One of the questions you can count on at some point in an interview is being asked to tell the...

Love Your Job Search & It Will Love You Back

I was listening to a recent Martha Beck podcast. She told a story she heard from Liz Gilbert (author of...

4 Ways to Move Past Job Search Procrastination

“How’s the job search going?” I ask my client. “I am not so motivated” is her reply. I laugh and...

Should I Change Jobs to Make More Money?

I was asked recently asked to give my opinion on how someone can determine if they’re being underpaid at their...

Are You “There” Yet in Your Career?

I’m in the process of building a coaching business while continuing to sustain my recruiting business. At times I have...

Career Validation – Get it and Give it

I was at an event in downtown Chicago. As I was leaving, the woman behind the front desk saw me...

Job Searching IS “Me” Time!

Not to beat a dead horse here but, as I’ve mentioned in the past, a job search is largely a...

Empowering Your Job Search!

I was talking with a client, and she asked me 2 important questions about change. The Backstory: Her daughter is...

Epic Career Fails!

Imagine being on the IT team and completing the well-planned changes to your routers and discovering that website traffic was...

Does a Job Search Scare You?

A job search has many moving parts. It makes sense that you might feel overwhelmed. It also makes sense that...

Negotiation is Scary as SH*T!

I woke up at 4:30 am and could not get back to sleep. Today was the day I was going...

How the Divine Wrote My Blog!

I was just going through some stuff on my desk and found an envelope. Across the front it said. “Laurie’s...

I Don’t Want to Do My Dream Job for Just 1 week!

On the prep call for tomorrow’s Unstoppable Series – Creating Career Success on Your Terms (COME JOIN US) – one of the guests, Kristen,...

How to Let Divine Timing Help You in Your Career!

Big Announcement! I am writing a screenplay. This is not an overnight decision. I’ve been germinating on my screenplay idea...

How To Move Your Career Forward!

For those who know me, you know that I attended the University of Texas. I graduated with a degree in...

A Weird Way to Change Your Career Circumstances for the Better!

I always include a photo in my blogs. If you are a regular reader, you probably have seen them. They...

What is Your Career Deep Truth?

You’ve probably heard about the Law of Attraction and the idea that like attracts like. You actually may have received...

What’s the Ugly Truth in Your Career?

On a recent coaching call I was talking with my client about her hopes, dreams and fears. Yet, what she...

What is Career Debt?

One simple way to look at debt is that it is giving away more than you have. And I’m not...

Your goal is NOT to have a great career!

I am an imperfect gardener. I don’t weed as often as I should. I know I’m supposed to fertilize but...

I Didn’t Get the Job and Couldn’t Be Happier!

“There’s so much going on and it’s all good”. This was an email I received from a coaching client as...

Find Your Career Passion through Your Career Pain!

In a recent blog I talked about a shoulder injury and how I had an epiphany that perhaps I might...

Your Career, Shel Silverstein and Freedom!

When I think about Independence Day, I know that Freedom is what I believe is our deepest yearning. Free to be ourselves....

How Does Your Body Talk To You About Your Career?

I have recently been suffering from significant pain in my shoulder and neck. At first it wasn’t too bad, so...

How to YouTube Your Way to a Career You Love!

My passion, you might even say my mission, is to reconnect women to careers that are a reflection of their...

I Almost Wore my Yoga Pants!

I had my first in-person meeting with a client in over a year and was in a quandary. I stood in...

How a Psychic Turned my Career Around!

I am in a wealth building community. Every month we do a call bringing our 💲 questions and 💲 problems....

What is the First Step to a New Career?

I was talking with a friend recently and she mentioned that her friend had just lost her 3rd job in less...

What Career Problem Sucks the Most Right Now?

We are currently in a brand update. We are updating out brand colors, redesigning our website and updating our wording...

Is it Time to Put Your Job Search on a Food Plan?

I walked by my husband’s work space this morning and something caught my eye. 6 yellow Post-it notes down the...

A Very BIZARRE Career Tip

I know you have probably said this to yourself more than once.  I know I have. “It’s been a year.”...

A Friend’s Death and Career Negotiation

My very first friend passed away this week. Her parents and my parents lived in the same apartment complex since...

When Your Job Search Feels Like You’re Paddling Upstream!

I was recently working with a client who is on job search. I was prepping them for an interview. I...

Career Change Can Suck!

I have gained some weight and I am not happy about it. I could blame 2020 and no one would...

Make My Paycheck a Venti!

I’m on the phone with a friend as she was driving away from Starbucks. She was trying to convince me...

What Gear Is Your Career In?

I’m reading a great book called Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by Olga Mecking. Niks, in Dutch,...

How Will You Approach Your Job Search?

I was talking with a young woman who had recently been laid off. She was unhappy. I listened to her...

Procrastinate No More!

I was listening to a recent call and the speaker said that your brain responds to the command 5 4 3...

Release Career Burdens

I am in the process of decluttering. One of the hardest things, so far, is decluttering my book collection. I...

Is Your Career + Life Just Too Much?

There was this commercial when I was a kid from a product called Calgon and their tag line was “Calgon,...

It’s Time: More Step🚶‍♀️ and Less Web 🕸

It is March. The name of the month itself implies movement. In Rejuvenation: A 4-week Mini-Adventure, we talk about each season...

Job Search Tip from Nancy Drew

When I was in grade school, we had a summer reading club. After summer, in the first few weeks of...

She Wondered if it Was Time to Quit

I was recently working with a coaching client who said she was at a crossroads in her career. She wants...

Your Career Mission is to Follow Joy!

We just completed Week 4 of the current Rejuvenation: A 6-Week Mini Adventure. (ALERT: the next mini-adventure starts on March 3rd. and you do not...

Raise your Hands 🙌 If You Dread Networking!

On a recent conference call, we were asked to give our best networking tips. There were some great ones: like...

How to Create Anticipation Energy!

This Friday a bunch of my girlfriends and I are getting together to play online Scattergories.I can hardly express how excited I...

A New Trend: Self-Complimenting!

From the other room my husband hears me say, “Great job, Laurie”. He chuckles and wonders what I am up...

READ BEFORE WEDNESDAY!

This week’s blog is short and sweet. Short because I am simply here to tell you that Wednesday kicks off the...

And the Angels said, Rejuvenation!

For the first blog of 2021 I am going to get a bit woo-woo on you. I have a deck...

What’s Your Word Hummingbird?

Given all that has happened in 2020, I know for many of us, 2021 cannot come fast enough.  One of...

Vincent Van Gogh Your Career in 2021

If you asked me in June if I wanted to sit down and do some goal planning, I would have...

What Kind Of Friend Are You To Your Money?

I have been making a real shift in my relationship to money over the last few years. When I became...

Have You Heard The One About Tony Hsieh, Zappos & Your Career?

When I heard Tony Hsieh passed away last week from injuries suffered during a house fire I was saddened. I...

Scale Your Career AND Have a Life

I was recently reminded of a story that the famous author Paulo Coelho had on his blog: There was once...

3 Ways To Be In Charge Of Your Career + Life

I am working on with a coaching client at the beginning of her career. She is struggling with creating a...

The #1 Thing You And Your Career Need Right Now

Last night I woke up at 3:30 am. That happens. Sometimes I go right back to sleep.  Sometimes I go...

Get That Job By Saying Cheese

I am not even finished with the book Burnout: The Secret of Solving the Stress Cycle and I’m already planning it as...

Is Covid-19 Putting An End To Traditions?

Every year for over 20 years a small group of friends and I have been getting together around the Christmas...

You Are Already Living Your Career Dream

I have 3 vision boards. I write my career goals every January and post them on my bulletin board at...

“I Love My Job…But I Love Me More”

I am currently working with a high-level software engineer in Silicon Valley who has had enough! She has been with...

What To Do When You Have A Flood…In Your Career or Life

I have been struggling these past few weeks. I wake up many mornings with this low-level sadness and anxiousness that...

Did Millennials Know A Pandemic Was Coming?

I am going to say something pretty radical here so get ready! If we had listened to the millennials, we would...

How is Patience the Key to Achieving Career Success?

In our most recent meeting of The “IT” Community, a gathering of Women in Information Technology building careers and lives they...

In Anticipation of Career Creation

I am currently watching a house on a corner in our neighborhood being built. They tore down a ranch that...

Dogs, Drama and Self-Care at Work

I had two different experiences with people and their dogs that taught me a lot about how to handle personal...

How To Engage The WOO in Your Job Search

I was recently asked about all the writing I do. How do I come up with my ideas?  Do I...

Work Where You Are Valued

Here is a story I recently read on the interwebs. (There was no author’s name given). A father said to...

Careers That Bring Me to Tears

I recently read an article in Oprah Magazine (the one with Breonna Taylor on it – the only cover in...

A Mystical Experience That Helps Defy Career Hustle Culture

Strap on your “Anything Is Possible” wings because I had a mystical experience that gave me another way to further...

Lose Weight AND Get A Job!

I recently started working with the App called Lose It!. I had been slowly but surely losing weight for almost two...

Defy the Career Hustle Culture and Still Have Career Success

For all of March and April and most of May, I was busy at work. There was not much recruiting...

Be The Ambassador Of Fun At Your Office

This past weekend we had our monthly meetup. Our topic was More Fun From 9-5 and we talked about the benefits of...

4 Steps to Working With Career Unknowns

I was recently talking with a coaching client whose job has significantly changed since Covid19. She has been moved to...

Is Your Career In Retrograde?

What I know about astrology can be summed up in one word: Capricorn. That’s my sign. As a Capricorn I...

Are You Done With This Career? The Next Is Up To YOU!

At our recent Women in Tech Meetup we were talking about our dream career.  The question I asked was, “What is...

Remove Ageism: A Tool That Removes Ageism or Whatever You Believe Is Getting In The Way of Your Career Success

I was talking recently with a woman who was feeling frustrated in both her job search and her career trajectory...

These Times, Your Career and Reclaiming Inner-Authority

How are you feeling right now? Are you using your quiet wisdom to get centered? Are you using your fierce...

6 Simple Ways to Remove Unconscious Office Bias

Note:  This is a blog sent out on March, 4th, 2019 that we felt was worth re-sending.  It speaks directly...

Peace out of Chaos

Change and chaos is the norm right now. I don’t know exactly how to help. I have not walked in...

A Message of Inclusion

I was sent a blog called In Her Words: Where Women Rule the Headlines. The blog is not up yet...

At a Career Crossroads? Try A 3-Step Spiritual Approach to Deciding

I have felt doubt. My career path has taken me into this new coaching business I am building. On one...

Career Advice: What Message Do You Need to Hear Right Now?

Life is not slowing down for me. In fact, since Covid-19 hit, I feel like I have MORE on my...

You Misspelled My Name? You B**ch! And Other Virtual Realities

I walked out of the post office looking through my mail. I reached to open what I thought was my...

How to Marie Kondo Your Job Search

With the recent Covid-19 shelter-at-home order in place my time watching Netflix has increased. Now that I am caught up...

Half-head and 4 other Virtual Interviewing Mistakes to Avoid

I was talking with a coaching client via Zoom the other day. Our agenda was straightforward. Look at the roles...

A Career Tip Learned from Watching Ridiculousness!

Ok. I admit it. My husband and I share a guilty pleasure. We cannot pull ourselves away from watching the...

Career Tip from My Dream: Be Unconventional

I admit it. I think my dreams often, not always, but often, have a message for me. Useful wisdom to help...

Why Now Is THE Time for Career Transformation

With Shelter at Home being extended through at least April 30th we are all having to adjust in ways big...

Use Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies for Your Career and Job Search

I was listening to a recent Ted Radio Hour segment on “Jumpstarting Creativity”.  They were talking with Brian Eno. Brian...

What You Can Do NOW to Help Your Job Search

I just hung up with an  IT leader who is on a job search. She had planned her exit from...

Women in Technology need Access. Here’s How.

I recently had the honor of speaking on a panel for International Women’s Day at Accenture in Chicago. The topic...

The Blackhawks, The Cubs & a Career Strategy Tip

“Sometimes you got to strike ‘ em out without your fastball”.  While watching a recent Blackhawks game, Pat Foley, Chicago...

My Secret to Achieving High Success in a Job Search

As a recruiter, I have the privilege of helping companies build strong IT teams-ideally teams that are balanced and diverse...

Career Tip: Be Bold! Say No!

It seems like in this day in age we are all about saying yes. Be Bold! Make a Scene! Shondra...

Career Tip: Breathe the Same Air

No one can argue that the digital age has created many benefits. As a recruiter, the whole way I connect...

You Got YouTube? You Can Fulfill Your Career Dreams.

You do not have to be a graduate from the University of Texas to fulfill your dreams but when I...

What is Your Career Identity?

I’m reading the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. In the book, he gives an example of 2 people who...

Make Self-Care Part of your Career Strategy

I was so excited when I bought myself a pair of workout leggings with flowers on them a few months...

How to have 20/20 Career Vision in 2020

I just went and had my annual eye exam. I’ve had glasses since 5th grade (I didn’t wear them until...

The Most Important 2.5 Minutes Of Your Career

Don’t judge me but I just binge watched Cheer, the new Netflix series, and LOVED it! Surprising because I tried...

Career Tip: If You Can Install A Radiator You Can Learn New Technologies

I was prepping a candidate for a job interview. She has been in the field for over 25 years. She...

New Year!!! New Career??? What Would Oprah Do?

I believe that we are continuously being offered advice and counsel to assist us in moving more powerfully into that...

The Only 3 Questions You Need To Answer To Have A Great Career In 2020

2020 is not just a New Year. It’s a NEW DECADE! What better time to change things up. Grab 10...

Micro-Acts Of Self-Discipline Will Build Your Career Confidence

It’s hard to argue with the fact that the more confident you feel going into an interview the higher your chance of success....

Holiday Career Tip: Keep Your Foot On The Gas

I often have people on a job search lament the holidays because they believe that companies are not going to...

Forget Carving The Turkey: Carve Out Some YOU Time!

The holidays can be filled with chaos in many ways. Projects wrapping up at work. Plans for projects kicking off...

Trevor Noah, Narnia and Career Inclusion

This month my book club is reading Born A Crime by Trevor Noah. A must-read (or even better get the audio...

Linda Ronstadt’s Career Wisdom Every Woman Needs To Hear

My husband has no interest in playing Cribbage with me. (I know right?). I have no interest in going to...

A Surprising Tip On When To Start Your Salary Negotiation

As we get ready to launch Take Charge, our digital job search readiness program, I realized that one of the...

The Verbal Blurt is NOT a great career tactic. Use Verbal Discipline instead.

It just came out of my mouth. I did not consider what I was saying. I was the final decision...

She Lost The Job Because Of Who She Knew

I probably could write a month of blogs from all I learn at the InspiHER Tech Meetups. This Meetup was no...

Forget About Learning From Your Career Mistakes. Try This Instead!

I’ve always had a weird resistance come up when someone says, “Mistakes are good. You can learn from them”. Not...

A Quick Tip to Solve a Career Mistake

Have you ever wondered if perhaps you made a BIG career mistake that there is no coming back from? You...

How to Create Career Freedom

Last week I wrote about the Super Soul Sunday episode with Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a 90-year-old holocaust survivor, and her idea that...

Leadership Tip for Women in Tech: Be a First Responder

I was recently watching Oprah’s interview with Dr. Edith Eva Eger, 90-year old Holocaust survivor turned psychologist. She was telling a...

Career Contentment is the goal, no matter where you’re at!

You’ve been in conflict. You’ve been feeling unsettled. You know you want a change but then second guess yourself. You have...

Labor Day Was A Fight for Equity And Inclusion

We recently had our windows replaced. We had to take all kinds of memorabilia off of a shelf my son...

13 Things Women Wish They Had Done Differently In Their Tech Careers

Today’s blog is interactive. I am looking for participation.  At the end, you get a chance to help other women...

My “Armor Up” story as a Woman in Tech

Flashback Story: I received my degree in business with an emphasis on Information Technology from the University of Texas. My...

Your Career as an Offering

Recently I have been re-reading a book called “It’s Not Your Money” by Tosha Silver. I first read “Outrageous Openness” by Tosha several years...

Please! Help Me Talk With My Boss!

At our recent Meetup for Career Women in Tech, we went around and talked about recent challenges we were facing that...

The Concert Set List That Became a Team Building Tip

I was at a recent concert of my current favorite new band, The Beths. The concert was at an outdoor...

As a Leader You Get 3 Opinions MAX

I was at an event recently at my clients’ office. My client is doing a lot right when it comes...

How to Use Your NO-How (vs. KNOW-How) to Achieve Your Dreams

Our house is over 50 years old. We still have the original windows in much of the house, the original...

Forget the Cougar. Be a Cheetah in Your Career!

At the recent InspiHER Tech meetup for Career Women in Tech we talked about the Imposter Syndrome. Imposter Syndrome, also...

Career Excuses AND Career Dreams

Take 5 minutes right now and write down all your top excuses for not changing your circumstances. I am too...

Are You Considering a Career Boomerang?

I was coaching a woman in tech, who is what we call a boomerang in recruiting. She worked for a company,...

Are You a Value-Add at Your Work?

In business there is always talk about adding value. The term value-add has been used in several industries from finance...

Embrace the Oft-Feared “D” Word and Watch Your Job Search Results Take Off

A job search can be tedious. Daunting. Boring. Scary. And necessary! You have made the decision (or maybe someone else...

Hey Sheryl Sandberg! My Whole Self Wants to Wear PJ’s to Work!

I recently complimented my assistant on her totally cute skirt and top and she remarked that’s it’s the most comfortable...

Do You Have Career Faith?

I’m not a church-going gal but I am a faith gal. Being an entrepreneur pretty much requires that you need to...

Leadership Tip: a Baby, a Birthday and an Anniversary

I am not great at celebrating work milestones. I get very focused on what I am doing and forget about...

Are you ready to Free Solo Your Career?

Hell no! I would never climb up the side of a mountain without ropes, a parachute, spikes, perfect weather and...

Making Career Decisions Based on Your Heart-Not Your Pocketbook

I recently went to moms’ weekend at my daughter’s college. No surprise, that got me thinking about my college days...

Is Your Work Culture for Orchids or Dandelions?

I recently was listening to Fresh Air on NPR and they had Dr. Thomas Boyce as their guest. He is...

The Best Female Leaders Take A Lunch

I was having a conversation with a friend recently who is completely overloaded at work. She told me she had...

So You Think You Have No Career Game?

Think again! I was listening to an interview about an athlete who was being honored for his basketball achievements. After...

Surrender Your Career to What Wants to Happen

I am in a lull at work. I wrapped a project with a client and have some time on my...

Play an April Fool’s Joke on your Work To-Do List

I was just reading that I could apply for a newsletter that would tell me one small thing I could...

A Fun Game: The Chronology of Women in Tech

I love trivia. I remember being obsessed with the game of Facts in Five when I was very young. Then...

3 Tips from Tony Hawk on How to Stay Relevant in Your Career

As a recruiter for 25 years many people who I worked with at the beginning of my career are now...

How is Your Culture Culturized?

I heard a story about a school near where I live that had something called the Head of Household Stipend...

6 Simple Ways to Remove Unconscious Office Bias

While getting my certification from Cornell in Diversity, Inclusion and Unconscious Bias I learned about a really cool study done...

Have you heard the one about Tony Hsieh, Zappos & your career?

I am a fan of Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos. The company I started buying my shoes from because I...

How the Rabbi Brought Career Enlightenment

Work is very busy. Yes, that is a good thing. Though I am working a tremendous amount this is better...

Use The SNAP Method to Respond to The #1 Asked Interview Question

I recently watched a Lisa Nichols YouTube video. She was talking about something she learned as a young coach on...

7 Steps to Recovering from a Work Mistake

I recently gave a workshop to a tech company on interviewing that covered the laws, gave examples of what you...

Being Comfortable in the Uncomfortable is Key to a Successful Salary Negotiation

I know, it was not that long ago I wrote about Michelle Williams and Negotiation. I decided to write on this...

Two-Step Wisdom From An Information Technology Project Manager

I was recently talking with a woman who I had recruited for a Project Manager role for my client. When...

Is That A Nail In Your Foot Or Just Career Change Insanity?

In my recent Oprah Magazine, Martha Beck is working with a woman around addiction. Martha mentions something she heard from...

A New Year. A New Approach To Your To-Do List

I have a thing for TO-DO lists. I love checking things off them. I like accomplishing things and I am...

A Bank Robber, A Bird Lover, A Lottery Winner & The Failed Interview

The head of HR called me to let me know they were not moving forward with my candidate for their...

Reinvention From Coal Miner to Coder

I was at a holiday party this past week and learned of an organization that helps coal miners retool themselves...

The Numbery of Nummary and Negotiating

I love dictionary.com. They send me a Word of the Day and I am often surprised at how appropriate the...

Playing Scrabble, Releasing Outcomes & Your Job Search

“Mom, TI is not a word.” “Yes it is.” “Uh, no it isn’t!!” “TI as in DO, RE, MI, FA,...

Would You Rather? – Your Career Transition Game for 2019

Over Thanksgiving the family got out an oldie-but-a-goodie game called Would You Rather? If you have never played the game...

What is Your Career “Bad Beat” Story?

I was recently listening to an interview with Annie Duke talk about her new book: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter...

Is Your Imagination Scaring You?

I was in my car going to do some grocery shopping listening to Comedy Central on Sirius radio when Andy...

Confessions of an I GET SH*T DONE addict

Last week, I: Ran a pitch contest for 8 investors and 8 tech company founders for Women Tech Founders –...

The Subtle Ways Of Bias

For Christmas, my husband had asked for a new blanket for our bed. Conveniently, my mom called me to say...

Are You Living Your Soul’s Mission?

September 25th was one of my favorite days because The Voice was back! For me, The Voice is right up...

Your Soul’s Mission and The Tragically Hip: “Either It Will Move Me or It Will Move Right Through Me”

On October 17th Gord Downie, lead singer and songwriter of the Tragically Hip, died of brain cancer. The Tragically Hip (TTH...

Build Your ASK Muscle

Recently I was reminded of an article from the Huffington Post on the wage gap. It speaks to several possible...

Grandma Knows Your Life Purpose

How many times have you asked yourself, “What is my purpose?” Maybe you have felt as if you were not...

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