Feedback. What do you think of when you hear that word? Do you think “YES! An opportunity to grow!” or “Ugh. Great, I get to hear all the ways I’m falling short.”? Or do your feelings on hearing how your doing fall somewhere in the middle? Feedback, whether formal- like in a written review, or informal- like in a casual conversation, can be hard to …
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Prep for Work Travel Like a #MOMBOSS
Part 2: The Prep I’ve traveled for work throughout my entire career but after becoming a mother, the exercise of preparing to leave took on a whole new level of complexity and stress. It’s already a lot to have to think about everything that needs to be packed and planned for your own needs. Now layer on the worry of leaving the family on their own and the work of setting them up for success in your absence. The thought alone is enough to downright exhaust even the highest-energy super-mom on …
Travel For Work Like a #MOMBOSS
Part One: Survival Basics Being a working mom has it’s highs and lows and if I’m being totally honest, work travel falls firmly in both camps simultaneously for me. I count business trips as a high because I love to visit different cities and have the opportunity to change up my environment. Traveling for work also usually means that I will end up with more alone time than I typically can find at home. Stolen moments of quiet time on airplanes, where I am writing this now, have recently …
6 Tips for Presenting with Ease
Who’s freaked out by presenting? Raise your hand!? I think we all have some level of fear or discomfort when getting up in front of a crowd, however big or small. Why is it such a scary thing? I think the fear can be caused by our lack of comfort being vulnerable, of taking the risk that someone will see we are not perfect. We might say “um” or “like” or forget what we are saying all together. We might trip or a cuss word might slip. We might just straight up pass out. So many things …