Business Startup Tip for Women: Stay Focused By Amy Lindgren Today’s business startup column covers a topic of importance to every entrepreneur, but especially so for women: Staying focused, and not giving away time to non-startup activities. Ready? We’ll start with a quiz: Which is more important when starting a business, funding, or the owner’s time? You already know the…
How former Intel exec Diane Bryant went from homeless teen to CEO of a multimillion-dollar start-up By Morgan Smith Like many 18-year-olds, Diane Bryant had no clue how she wanted to spend her life. It wasn’t until one of her classmates complimented Bryant on her number-crunching skills that she even considered a career in engineering. “I was sitting in Calculus…
Brain Fog? Why You’re Struggling and How to Beat It By Vicky McKeever If you’ve struggled to think clearly during the coronavirus pandemic, you could be experiencing “brain fog” – and one neuroscientist has explained how to beat it. “Brain fog is a collection of symptoms which give rise to loss of mental clarity or foggy thinking,” Sabina Brennan wrote…
By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor The things I know first-hand as a professional coach and as a coach of my daughter’s teenage volleyball team, is that there are many parallels. In fact, I learn more from coaching the girls! I’m a bit late on the Ted Lasso train but have fallen in love with the show and characters…
Her Creative Side Hustle Brings in $32,000 a Month This 24-year-old’s side hustle brought in over $32,000 in one month – and Harry Styles sells her designs By Megan Sauer Drawing was always a hobby for Elena Gatti, who started sketching animals at age 5. She certainly never intended to monetize the skill throughout her side hustle. Yet today, the…
Making Medicine Better for Women By Logan Lutton Being a physician is challenging. Being a woman and a physician might be even harder. Tammie Chang, M.D., a physician and author, details the unique challenges facing female physicians and what women in medicine can do about them in her new book, “Boundaries for Women Physicians: Love Your Life and Career in…
How are women reinventing the workplace? Bryant University Women’s Summit By Patricia Andreu According to Virginia “Ginny” Clarke, the business world is in the midst of an enormous transformation. Clarke, the founder of a talent and leadership consultancy, doesn’t just mean the more flexible workplace precipitated by the COVID pandemic. She sees a seismic shift in the very constructs of…
Freshly CEO Anna Fabrega On Establishing Balance When Focused On Your Career Written by Jess Cording Meal delivery services have become a convenient way to fuel your workday or make it easier to have a nourishing dinner that’s ready when you are. In the last few years we have seen a variety of new companies hit the market that feature…
What are you wearing these days? How have your fashion choices evolved since you put down your sweat pants and donned real pants again as life reopens post-pandemic? There’s a one in six chance it was made by a woman, according to the UN. There’s also a one in eight chance a woman bought it for you since women make or…
How A Step Back Can Catapult Your Career. Pop culture plays a significant role in how language evolves, turning slang words and phrases into everyday sayings recognized by dictionary.com. As a result, slang terminology has the power to define a generation and even spark creative marketing campaigns. For example, although the term struggle bus was first recorded in the early…