Entrepreneur vs Employee: Addressing Dissatisfaction by Owning Your Path If you’re deciding between the entrepreneur vs employee paths, the right choice depends on your risk tolerance, values, financial readiness, and comfort with uncertainty. By understanding your motivations and building a strong safety net, you can choose the career path that truly fits your long-term goals. Many professionals reach a point…
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Coaching for DEI professionals provides essential emotional and strategic support to navigate organizational resistance, reduce burnout, and sustain impact. Through culturally competent coaching, DEI leaders process the emotional toll of the work, earn leadership buy-in, and clarify their roles—transforming both their careers and their organizations’ cultures. The Current Reality Facing DEI Professionals After 2020, organizations pledged to deepen their commitments…
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The Goal Rollercoaster: Lapse vs. Relapse Many of us start each new year, quarter, or season with resolutions that feel powerful, hopeful, and deeply motivating. The desire to live a healthier, more stable, more fulfilled life is a compelling one—so compelling that it’s easy to feel like this time will be different. Yet research indicates that more than half of…
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Going Global in Your Job Search: A Practical Guide to Expanding Your Career Horizons In a rapidly changing economy, job seekers are learning that relying solely on the U.S. job market may no longer be enough. While the economy continues to recover, many professionals still face limited opportunities, long job searches, and stalled industries. Conducting a global job search can…
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Stop Gaslighting Women Experiencing Imposter Syndrome | Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD Stop Gaslighting Women Experiencing Imposter Syndrome By Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD • Updated October 20, 2025 Why telling women they don’t have Imposter Syndrome is harmful Dismissing women’s Imposter Syndrome as “not real” or “only oppression” invalidates genuine self-doubt, fear of being exposed, and performance anxiety. This well-intended dismissal gaslights women…
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Entrepreneur vs Employee: Addressing Dissatisfaction by Owning Your Path If you’re deciding between the entrepreneur vs employee paths, the right choice depends on your risk tolerance, values, financial readiness, and comfort with uncertainty. By understanding your motivations and building a strong safety net, you can choose the career path that truly fits your long-term goals. Many professionals reach a point…
5 Ways Mindfulness Can Reduce Work Tension The myth that mindfulness will instantly deliver you into a blissful, zen-like state is one of the biggest barriers to beginning a meaningful practice. Many people try mindfulness for a few weeks, don’t feel “nirvana-level” relief, and assume they are doing it wrong. In reality, mindfulness works through subtle but powerful cumulative effects.…
Most Americans are taught to simply find a “good” job, with no direction about how to actually accomplish this goal, and what “good” entails. Thus, most struggle with finding a best fit position which matches one’s values, interests, and skills, which would lead to long term career satisfaction. After recently attending a career conference in Boston, and learning about the…
Oftentimes, people are reluctant to take a leap to a new career without fully understanding the job requirements and duties of the position. Therefore, one of the best strategies to utilize to gain more knowledge about a position or a career is the informational interview. The informational interview is an opportunity to speak to an individual who is currently working…
