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Being Your Own Boss: Going Solo Takes a Team
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 4: The long legs of advice, maintaing personal relationships and realizing it is a team effort.
Being Your Own Boss: The Busywork of Social Media
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 3: How a lack of clarity about my business manifested into a wasteful and exhausting approach online.
Being Your Own Boss: Hidden Costs of Going Solo
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 2 Hidden costs, what to spend money on and when to take the wait-and-see approach.
Being Your Own Boss: Figuring Out What To Do and How To Do It
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 1: Learning the difference between what you do, how you do it and the evolution of both.
Our Personal Relationship with Change
How we interpret change is uniquely personal. The way it affects us, and how we resist, is a shared experience. (4 min read)
Why I’m Still a 'Woman in Tech'
I was done with the “woman in…” description. Then I saw a social media post inspired by a ballet magazine cover (of all things) and I remembered why that title is so damned important. (4 min read)
Speaking Up Meant Standing Alone
Leadership means one day, looking around the room, waiting for someone - anyone, to do something, and realizing you are that someone. (6 min read)
Performance Reviews: I Broke The Rules & Put My Team First
I haven’t met a bad process I haven’t ignored…learn how I replaced the outdated 8-page performance management process review with just 2 questions. (4.5 min read)
3 Mistakes I Made as a Woman in Tech
I made things more difficult for myself by trying to ‘go it alone’, to prove that I deserved that seat at the table. Don’t do what I did. (5 min read)
Redefining Success
I spent years pursuing someone else's dreams, getting fired was just what I needed. Originally published at Thrive Global.com (2.5 min read)