5 Tips for Managing a Healthy Work/Life Balance

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As someone who owns her own business I spend a lot of time working. It takes a great deal of time, energy and discipline to work for yourself, but over the years I’ve learned how to manage that time in a way that doesn’t eat into my social life.

I haven’t always been a master at this balancing act of work and life. When I first started doing

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Tips for Starting a Business from Scratch

Now more than ever, women are seeing the benefits of building their own businesses and are doing just that. In a world full of complicated and contradicting start up information, consider my eight simple tips for launching a successful business as a woman. It does after all help to get advice from someone who’s been there.

Don’t quit your day job, at least not at first. While it may be tempting to jump feet first into building your business, it is wise to map out your financial needs and obligations before giving your two weeks notice. Consider working part-time as

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What’s Up with Glam?

You know how some people thrive under pressure? I am not that person…I completely fall apart.

Even though my first “BizGlam Pop Up Workshop” with SA Youth isn’t until June 12th, I made a deadline for myself to have everything packed and ready to go by this weekend. Why? Because this gives me almost two weeks to check and re-check that I have everything. I know, it probably seems a bit anal, but there are so many small pieces that I am afraid will fall through the cracks.

The workshops are broken into three main sections: branding, production/design,

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Three Reasons Why Gen Y Employees Should Focus on Personal Branding at Work

PicMonkey CollageMany Millennials (aka: Gen Y) are currently finding themselves in a very challenging situation at work. The good news for Millennials is that, due to major generational shifts, they are being moved into management and leadership roles faster and sooner than generations before them were. The challenging news is that 50% of Millennials surveyed believe their organizations could do more to develop their future leaders (The 2014 Deloitte Millennial Survey).

The Deloitte survey also unveils other results

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Help Little Lanae and her Family

I haven’t been writing much lately, which also means I haven’t announced to the blogosphere that I’m pregnant. 21 weeks and it’s a boy! It’s fantastic, we’re thrilled! This new stage in my life, however, has given me new mama bear instincts and an appreciation and empathy for all the momma’s in my life.

Which is why I wanted to solicit some help from you all today. Another fellow milspouse, Nikki, shared an unfortunate trial that some friends are going through. Their 2-year-old daughter, Lanae, is battling brain cancer.

Lanae was perfectly healthy up until a couple of months ago.

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8 Tips for Positive Self-Talk to Spur Success

Each of us has about 50,000 thoughts each day. Most are judgments. Many are negative. All are stories. Most of them are fiction.

We find ourselves saying:Grace Killelea LO

“I’m never going to get that promotion.”

“Money is not my strong suit.”

“I’m so disorganized!”

If we hear these “lies” enough, they can end up becoming truths.

Self-talk is one of the easiest ways to sabotage your business career as well as your social life, and, conversely, one of the easiest ways to

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Women on Business: Taking the Lead and Making a Difference

The balance oMichelle Picture Headshot MAINf power is tipping toward the feminine with more women taking on the workforce by graduating en masse from higher education well and above their male counterparts as well as starting businesses and taking a leading role in how major companies around the world are run. When it comes to women on business, they are coming out on top, but there is still more that they can do to make a difference and help to

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Graduating in May? Here are tips to help you enter the career world.

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There is no questions about it: Monica C. Smith is a successful entrepreneur, and that is why you should pay close attention to her advice below.

Monica is the founder and CEO of Marketsmith Inc. (#389 on Inc. 500) and recent start-up, I.Predictus. For three years in a row, her businesses have driven over $1 billion dollars in sales.

Being the marketing super star that she is, I thought it would be

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Picture Overload from Providence

Like I have mentioned before, I am not very creative when it comes to titling my blog posts. What you see is what you get. As you can imagine from the title, this post contains tons of pictures from my trip to Providence, Rhode Island for The Lady Project Summit.

When I went to school in Boston, I always wanted to visit Providence, but I never made it. I was excited to have a few days before The Summit to explore the city. It is a cute little place with tons of interesting history, delicious food and fun

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Recap: The Lady Project Summit

So this past weekend, I had the honor of going to Providence, RI to attend The Lady Project Summit. If you follow any of my social media channels, you probably saw that I had the best time ever.

It was inspiring and motivating to be around a group of ladies with interesting jobs or side hustles. Everyone that I spoke to was trying to do something major with their life. In the past, I have always hated networking or conferences because small talk is awkward. However, at The Summit, I felt like we all kinda instantaneously became friends,

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