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About Julie Bowen

From Atlanta. Go Falcons!! Writer, painter, mother, wife. (not necessarily in that order)

Radio Recap: Mothers in the Workplace

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Mother’s Day is only 4 days away so today ‘Dot Complicated with Randi Zuckerberg’ celebrated by discussing how to parlay the soft, natural leadership skills of motherhood into the hard skills of the business world with Erica Keswin—Founding Principal of Organization Performance Relationships [Read More]

May 4th, 2016|Radio|

Reflections on 2016’s Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day

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Earlier this year, former White Sox ringer, Adam LaRoche, retired from baseball—and a $13 million-dollar-a-year salary—after being told his 14-year-old son could no longer be in the locker room with him. This expensive decision brought up, once again, the impossibility of a complete 50-50 work / [Read More]

April 29th, 2016|Fam|

Radio Recap: Thinking Differently

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To be a successful entrepreneur one must first create a new mindset—one with a set of values and perspectives that will carry through their business as they aim for greatness. It’s this different thinking that prepares the mind of the entrepreneur, allowing them to answer questions, overcome [Read More]

April 27th, 2016|Radio|

Change In Our Pocket: Harriet Tubman on the $20

ca. 1860s --- A portrait of Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913). Tubman, herself an escaped slave, helped hundreds of slaves escape the South by means of the Underground Railroad. She nursed Union troops during the Civil War and took on spying missions at great personal risk. She is known as the <a href=[Read More]

April 22nd, 2016|Life|

Radio Recap: ‘YouTuber of the Year’ Casey Neistat

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YouTube phenom, Casey Neistat, truly has a rags-to-riches story to tell—one that he showcases almost daily in his widely popular vlogs, which have already garnered almost 3 million subscribers on YouTube and over 600 million views.

A director, producer, authentic brand marketer for both corporations and [Read More]

April 20th, 2016|Radio|

Tax Time! Are You Ready?

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Tax Day has become the Christmas for identity thieves. Between visits to your accountant, working full-time, and scavenging for financial documents, we often put security on the back burner during tax season. We often don’t think about secure passwords while filing our taxes online, or the dangers [Read More]

April 15th, 2016|Life|

April 12th = Equal Pay Day

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April 12th marks Equal Pay Day—a day women have celebrated never. This date is symbolic of the amount of time it takes women’s pay to catch up with their male counterpart’s salary from the year before—even decades after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President [Read More]

April 12th, 2016|Life|

Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Success

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After working in many high-achieving environments like Yale, Stanford, Silicon Valley, New York City, I noticed too many people were pursuing “success” at a cost to themselves. They were postponing their happiness now in pursuit of success with the idea that, when they attain success, they will be [Read More]

April 8th, 2016|You|

Social Media’s Impact on Modern Parenting

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It’s no secret that we are living in an increasingly digital society. This is a beautiful advancement, enhancing our lives in ways unimaginable a decade ago. We use our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices to log on and communicate wirelessly with our friends and family [Read More]

April 4th, 2016|Fam|

Get the Most Out of Your Mobile Devices

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Do you ever feel like your smartphone is too smart for its own good? Or wish you could do more with your tablet than watch Netflix? Lucky for those of us who don’t find mobile devices all that intuitive, it’s actually very easy to get the most [Read More]

April 1st, 2016|Help|