Party Planning Ideas: Sign, Sealed, Delivered!
Are you a party planner? With all the great ideas out there on blogs and Pinterest, I sometimes feel like I could party plan any occasion. I think the teacher in me loves the...
Category: Self
Stuck in Your Job? Tips to Improve Your Finances So You Can Move On
Are you dreaming of a new career? Do you spend each day counting down the hours until you can go home and your nights imagining what else you could be doing with your life?...
Blog News: Ms. Career Girl is Getting a Makeover!
Today I’m writing with some exciting news. I’ve known for a long time that Ms. Career Girl needed to get a big makeover. She needed (symbolically speaking) everything from a dye job to a spray...
A Response to the End of Courtship
Last month, the New York Times published an article about The End of Courtship. This article has brought up some great conversations and controversy- therefore of course, I want to talk about it. I...
How to Become More Confident and Assertive at Work and School
After discussing with a number of friends, family members, and co-workers about New Year’s resolutions, one resolution seemed to occur frequently: the goal to be more confident and assertive. To be honest, this is...
Is a Valentine’s Day Look Really Necessary?
Are you putting your Valentine’s Day Look together? Of course you are! Ever since Junior High us ladies have searched high and low for the perfect Valentine’s Day outfit to wear out to help...
Balancing a Career & Family. Wait, what?
Happy Monday, ladies! In college I always told myself I wouldn’t settle down and start a family until I could completely take care of myself, financially and mentally. The weird thing? I’m actually doing...
Dad, This One’s For YOU!
My Dad, he’s a business dude. Salesman through and through. We can talk for hours about strategies for building relationships, earning trust, sales ups and downs. It’s been so cool teaching him how to...
Are We Allowed To Say We’re Pretty, Funny, And Smart?
Have you ever called yourself pretty or funny or smart? And I mean out loud, and not in a joking, sarcastic or self-deprecating way. You said it, because well, you think it’s true. What...
I Hate January. Let’s go Shopping.
Ever since elementary school I’ve hated the month of January. Here in Chicago it’s bleak, cold, dark and seemingly never-ending. For as much as I’ve been swept up in the January “it’s a new year, let’s...