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It’s easy to feel like you need to go it alone in your career. It’s up to you to land that job or score that promotion. The development of your skills rests on your shoulders. Ultimately, only you can make your career ambitions a reality. I’ll admit that there’s some truth to all of those […] More
There is nothing I loathe more than small talk, and the holidays are just about the worst. Probably like many of you, I find myself attending a lot of holiday functions. I’ll go several holiday gatherings for various magazines I write for. I’ll attend my husband’s company party. I’ll drop in on a few open […] More
Can I tell you a secret? I actually really love email. No seriously, I write emails to real people. I’ve emailed my friends before like I’m Kathleen Kelly and it’s 1998. I get a lil’ boost every time a new email pops up, all shiny and unread, in my inbox. More importantly for my expertise in […] More
Like most millennials, I grew up on old wives’ tales and outdated aphorisms, but one in particular always stuck with me: “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” As a kid (and a right-brained one at that,) this Ben Franklin original stressed me out to no end. Am […] More
You might have seen the segment on The Everygirl in which our two Editorial Assistants, Maddie and I, try on clothes and talk about how they fit on our two very different body types. In this segment, we often like to say we are both coworkers and best pals. It’s not a joke, and it’s […] More
Office politics can be overwhelming. As if keeping up with the water cooler gossip and making sure that Debbie from accounts doesn’t have too many glasses of wine at the work Christmas party isn’t enough, there is also an entire language and etiquette that new starters must be quick to learn. The way that we present […] More
If multitasking were an Olympic sport, women would all win the gold medals. As dynamic and multi-passionate Everygirls, juggling multiple things comes second-nature to us. Whether we’re painting our nails while watching the news, sending off emails at breakfast, or even simply driving while listening to a podcast — this kind of multitasking helps us […] More
When you’re in your 20s and 30s in particular (though the same can be true if you take time off and go back to work, transition to a new field, go back to school, move to a new city, end a relationship, and the like), it’s easy to fall into a pattern of thinking that […] More
