It’s Ya Birthday!
In my history of birthday celebrations, they’ve always been relatively low key and carried an understated tone. While my parents always acknowledged my August birthday with a gift, there wasn’t great fanfare...
Harnessing Your Power! Career Advice Blog
Lots of issues show up at work that can be difficult to manage. And yet it is important for our own sanity that we feel like we are managing things well. Many of us seek advice from friends and family. Often, those sources are so biased for you that they can’t be as helpful as you hope. Share your question here – any question and I will give you my best advice. We can create strategies for, but not limited to: struggles in your role, management of a difficult employee, the boss that’s not nice or unreasonable, co-workers that don’t work, the interview process, the negotiating process, building a career, transitioning a career, getting a mentor, being a mentor, getting sponsored, dating at work or not, feeling less included, when to stay, when to leave and the list goes on! Check out what others have asked!
Give me your problem and I will give you advice. You can add my advice to all of the other advice you have received and decide for yourself what is best and how to move forward.
The Three Required Levers to Build Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Practitioners and leaders have been working at creating a culture where Diversity, Equity and Inclusion thrive. To create such an environment, there are three levers that are key...
Deciding Your Path When the Options are Tough
We are in an unfamiliar time where decisions are being made (and remade) daily. Are your decisions aligned with your needs and values?...
“Get in Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble”
Many of us have been moved by the life and work of John Lewis. He encouraged us to get into good trouble. For those of us who are just getting started in the activist world, be patient with yourself. Being a good activist takes practice...
Fix Your Crown – It’s Always on Straight
We have been talking about independence all month, considering different groups and ways to look at it. We know the power and goodness of independence, but what about interdependence? We don’t talk as much about it . . .
People of Color and Independence
Isn’t it interesting that the system of racism is so powerful and effective that it can make you wrong for naming it? Today, we are free to identify our experiences, and our white allies...
Raising Independent Children
Are you a helicopter parent? Merriam-Webster defines the term as one who is overly involved in the life of his or her child. Does this describe your parenting style? Someone you know? ...
Women and Independence
Women have had a shared fight in spite of having been tricked into being on opposing sides for far too long. Race has dominated our separation for the majority of our shared history through a system built on pecking order...
Happy Fourth of July
For over 200 years Americans have been celebrating our independence and freedom from British rule. However, recent events have brought to light the need for interdependence among races...
More About Juneteenth
Today's blog entry is a discussion of the history of Juneteenth, which we celebrated last Friday. I hope you honored it by learning something about it that you may not have known...