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16 hours ago
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5 people you need in your career & business

Who do you need to advance your career? You will need a number of connections to push you forward and help you advance. I have prepared t...

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Jan 9
4 min

7 ways to make social media work for your career & your life

Whether you like it or not, social media has transformed how everybody does everything over the past 10 years. I am sharing 7 ways to lev...

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Jan 2
4 min

7 ways to change your mindset and change your 2021

New year, new you right? WRONG! Unless you change your mindset all those new year's resolutions mean nothing. I am sharing 5 ways to genu...

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Dec 29, 2020
3 min

5 Books you need to read in 2021

It's that New Years Resolution season and for me, one of my goals is to read more, scratch that to read this year. I real a lot on social...

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Dec 20, 2020
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5 things you need for a successful vision board party

What do you need to have a successful vision board party? Look no further, I am sharing a list of must haves! This post contains some aff...

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Nov 29, 2020
3 min

Want to lead a file or a project at work: do these 5 things

A lot of jobs require experience leading a file, a project or demonstrating leadership skills. This is often challenging to gain early

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Nov 8, 2020
5 min

What Joe + Kamala's win means to me as a black woman raising a black girl

It has been a riveting few days awaiting the US election results. The entire world has held it's proverbial breath waiting to see what wo...

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Oct 30, 2020
3 min

5 ways to network during a pandemic

With the second wave of covid19 looming in many parts of the world, we are likely going to be working from home for the for-seeable futur...

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Oct 26, 2020
3 min

5 DO's and DON'TS of Networking

There are certain faux-pas to be avoided at all costs when it comes to networking. I am here to let you in on them.

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Oct 21, 2020
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#TestimonyTuesday: Is there anything too hard for God? Healing and restoration after a car accident

It is #testimonytuesday and I want to share how God uses EVERYTHING - everything: our ashes, our brokenness, our pain, our sorrow, our te...

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Oct 19, 2020
4 min

7 rules of networking to level-up your career

Here is the thing! You need to network to find out about job opportunities to make yourself known to potential employers and to get on the

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Oct 12, 2020
3 min

3 Myths about networking that are false

I have always networked, even when I didn't realize that I was doing just that. I love to learn from people and I am interested in finding

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Oct 10, 2020
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The second wave of covid19 is taking a bigger toll on us because we know what's coming

The world shut down entirely in March 2020. It was so unexpected and so shocking and no one knew for how long, how it was going to pan out.

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Oct 5, 2020
3 min

5 Reasons your career needs networking to level-up

The second cardinal rule about levelling up your career is #networking. The first rule is relationship, relationship, relationship.

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Oct 1, 2020
2 min

4 ways to nurture a relationship with your mentor

So you have found a mentor or you realize that you had a mentor and just didn't call them that formally. How do you nurture this relation...

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Sep 27, 2020
3 min

6 benefits of mentorship to the mentor

Throughout this month I have been talking about #Mentorship mostly from the perspective of the mentee. I want to share benefits of

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Sep 26, 2020
3 min

5 Qualities to look for in a mentor

At the CSM Masterclass, we talked about all things #Mentorship related. One of the questions asked was what do you look for as qualities in

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Sep 21, 2020
4 min

5 ways to find a mentor to advance your career

Mentorship is so important in moving yourself from one level to the next. Today I am sharing with you 5 ways to find a mentor.

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Sep 13, 2020
2 min

5 things to do BEFORE you get a mentor

Before you reach out to ask someone to be your mentor here are 5 things you should do.

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Sep 7, 2020
3 min

5 reasons you need a mentor to advance your career

I have benefitted so much from mentor-mentee relationships. I also have been a mentor to a number of people both organically and not so

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