Karren Brady on Taking Up a Side Hustle By Karren Brady Apprentice star and West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady answers your career questions and meets an inspirational CEO. Here she gives a reader advice on how to take up a side hustle in tutoring. Q) I’m a teacher and recently a friend asked if I could tutor her son…
Serena Williams Serves Up A New Vision Of Life And Retirement By Joseph Coughlin Tennis star Serena Williams announced her ‘retirement’ from tennis this week while challenging the very idea of retirement. In her interview with Vogue Magazine, Williams commented, “I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me….Maybe the best word to describe what I’m…
CEO Credits Her Career Success to Advice She Got When She Was 11 By Morgan Smith Beth Ford never imagined her career would make headlines. The Land O’Lakes CEO grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, as one of eight kids. Her first job was detasseling corn for $2 an hour. During college, she cleaned toilets and painted houses. Decades later,…
Mika Brzezinski: 7 Tips for College Women Entering the Workforce Mika Brzezinski laid out a career roadmap for young women on Wednesday during a keynote address at the annual Women’s History Month Luncheon hosted by the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. By Julianne Pepitone As founder of Know Your Value, Mika Brzezinski has doled out a lot of career…
Whole30 President Talks Inspiration, Success, & More By Sarah Regan Finding a career path that both suits you and touches the lives of others can be difficult to achieve—something Erica Rozetti, the president of Whole30, has come to know well. In this installment of our series, Follow Her Lead, we chat with Rozetti on what Whole30 means to her, how she’s…
3 Female Fortune 500 CEOs Share Advice, Lessons, & Skills By Morgan Smith The number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500 rose to a record high this year — 44 — which still means that women run less than 10% of the largest corporations in the U.S. Despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women have yet…
Woman of Distinction 2022: Debbie Abergel, Nadel By Sara Lavenduski Debbie Abergel knows a thing or two about rebranding. Of course, there are obvious examples, such as spearheading the major rebrand of her company, Top 40 distributor Nadel, that was made official this spring. But there was also the time, not long after she started at Nadel when the company…
Camp Aims to Recruit More Female First Responders By Amanda Rooker At Iowa Hero Academy, everything is hands-on. The five-day overnight camp is put on by Des Moines Police Department and the Des Moines Fire Department for Iowa girls ages 15-18. From firearm simulations to search and rescue drills, to learning how to use fire hoses and hydrants, the camp…
BSN Student Bringing Young Black Women to Health Care By Peggy Reisser Nursing student Amber Balkcom is on a mission to help young Black women like herself pursue careers in health care. Balkcom, 24, from Jacksonville, Florida, is in the second semester of the three-semester accelerated BSN program in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing. She…
3 Lessons For CEOs & Founders Needing a Creative Breakthrough By Kathy Caprino According to recent data and research, creativity has been ranked as a top skill for business success today. In a 2020 World Economic Forum “Future of Jobs Report,” creativity was rated highly as an important emerging skill across numerous countries. But very often, seasoned CEOs and leaders can rely too…
