How do I get a mentor? It’s one of the most popular questions we get on the blog, and with good reason. Studies show that you’re more likely to meet your career goals, and avoid career-damaging moves if you have someone mentoring and showing you the way. No matter how smart you are, or how…
The worst career advice I got was when a colleague commended my work and almost immediately trashed it saying, “You married women that work late, I don’t see why you need to work this hard!” Duh! As if marriage was my ticket to luxury.
It’s more than spa dates or manicures, mama.
The Slides: Modern Marriages
2. Inappropriate Email Addresses: When the internet arrived and getting emails were a novelty, a lot of people had rather interesting email addresses. Such addresses as ‘gorgeousbaby87@hotmail.com’ were rife. It is important to provide recruiters, potential employers and other professional acquaintances with a simple, standard email address at which they can reach you.
Fix It – Create a different email address for professional purposes. Your first and last names separated by a dot, underscore or hyphen for example, work very well.
Bone Broth is cheap, easy to make, delicious and filled with all the best nutrients. Feeding your Nigerian child healthy meals has never been easier.
This is the very first post in the Balance Series on Blazers & Baby and I’m so happy to get it started. For the longest time, we’ve had this idea to interview young moms working in various industries to get a sense of how they manage the priorities of work, family life and personal time….
Children raised by war survivors have a unique attitude to food. They are reluctant to throw leftover food away. Paring tubers (e.g. yams, potatoes or plantains) is done with precision. Not an inch of the tuber is wasted. And nutrition is hardly mentioned. Everyone is grateful to have enough to eat. Food is regarded as…
Building Lasting Friendships: The Slides
A couple of months back I shared my fertility tracking charts on Instagram Stories, provoking a number of questions. What were they? How were they used? Was this the “calendar method”? I promised I’d do a post eventually, so this is my attempt to explain this really major lifestyle choice. It’s helpful to do a…
