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]
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]
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]
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]
Researchers from Cal-Poly and North Carolina University recently found that the open-source programming women provided on code repository, GitHub, was rated higher than then their male counterparts, yet was often rejected due to gender bias. And last week job specialist, Glassdoor, announced that [Read More]
Razia Sultan is the only woman ever to be crowned the Sultan of Delhi. After the death of Razia’s father, her brother was crowned sultan but was killed less than seven months on the throne. From 1236 to 1240, Razia’s reign, while noble and forward-thinking, did not sit well with Muslim nobles [Read More]
You’ve started your own business, built a website—maybe even created an app. You’ve used social media, friends and relatives, neighbors and acquaintances all to help spread the word. Maybe you’ve hired an employee, maybe a bunch. You’ve got a lawyer, an accountant, but the one thing you don’t have [Read More]
Take that Banksy! 104-year-old great-grandmother Grace Brett just may be the oldest living street artist having “yarn bombed” various benches, phone booths, walls, and other landmarks in her town in the Scottish county of Borders.
Born in London in 1910, and having [Read More]
A few weeks ago I had Tamara McCleary on the show and her thoughts on achieving an ideal work / life balance have stuck with me ever since. In her RelationSHIFT courses, Tamara teaches to love your family through your work, instead of [Read More]
