Jay Graves shares insights on creating spaces for women both inside and outside of the home.

Andre Blackman shares insights on micro actions that have maximum impact in building a purposeful life

Laila Howard and Rocki Howard have a mother daughter conversation about balance career and family.

Christine Ramsay shares her lessons learned from living with neurodiversity.

Jess Von Bank discuses her perspective on work life balance and rebuilding broken work systems.

Heather Redisch discussed navigating work and family with authenticity and success.

Caitlin Iseler share connection as a driving force to wellbeing

Lessons come in many different forms. At each phase in life, you will have experiences, positive and negative, that will serve to evolve your knowledge, behavior, character, and approach. This can only happen if you are consciously evaluating experiences from the perspective of lessons learned.

Here are the five lesson’s that year 53 taught me:

As women, when we are given opportunities, even perfect opportunities, we are so busy asking questions that we miss the blessings.

This article discusses the importance of being honest with ourselves and others about our mental health, and how pretending to be "okay" can lead to further issues. It advocates for normalizing honest conversations about mental health, and calls for grown women to create safe spaces for authentic, vulnerable conversations in 2023.

Rocki Howard discusses the effects of pressure, personalities, and pettiness on decision-making and how they can distract from purpose-driven journeys. To overcome these distractions, one should take a step back and refocus on their goals and purpose, recalibrate their priorities, and make a plan of action. 

Focusing on purpose allows grown women to regain control and lead a proud, purposeful, and unapologetic life.

This is just another story from my Grown Woman Life that I hope helps to take the pressure off being perfect, reminds you to advocate for yourself and to have fun, even in the tough moments. Fun, I had for sure. I hope these I am sharing my chaotic Thankgiving and six tips to help you manage your holiday stress so that you can enjoy the holidays with your friends and family!

Being a mom has taught me more than I could ever teach. It has made me a better person, a better professional. (Side Note – I believe working moms have a competitive advantage.) Often we go into a situation thinking we are the experts, the teacher, and the sage. What happens when you participate wholeheartedly in the journey? When you engage fully along the way? You might find that you’ve learned more than you can teach.

It is absolutely essential in times of crisis to manage the “logistics” of the situation, to ensure our safety. But if we don’t leverage previous lessons that we learned that teach us to maintain our emotional and mental health, we may sacrifice our sanity. There has to be a balance.

Asking for help doesn’t minimize us in any way. People are happy to help if given the opportunity. Help, isn’t a four letter word.

I believe in allowing others to make mistakes. I believe in celebrating the smallest of victories. I believe we should focus our energies on completing things in a way that we can be proud. Pride allows us to stop and take satisfaction in what we accomplished.

Amid the #coronacrazy, we all need to take a breath. Allow yourself the time and space you need to think. Then determine how to pivot purposely. We need to take a moment to redefine how we add value to the world.

No one is exempt from biases, and as a woman of color, I am no exception. When we see biases, we have to remember that the opportunity to discuss should supersede our emotions. To make progress, we have to have conversations. Eradicating bias is a collective responsibility that will only happen when we are willing to recognize our own.