by Valerie | Jul 30, 2019 | Career, Next Chapter, Work-Life Balance
When Kathy Hazel was considering a return to the corporate world, she had all the requisite skills to pick up where she left off eight years earlier. What she lacked was the confidence to know she could do it. “I always wanted to be able to deliver on my...
by Valerie | Oct 22, 2018 | Wellness, Work-Life Balance
Ever speed down the driveway to go to work and discover – from a THUNK and deluge of brown liquid running down the windshield – that the traveler cup of coffee you couldn’t find as you raced out of the house was right where you left it… on the...
by Valerie | Nov 13, 2017 | Advice, Goals, Humor, Work-Life Balance
Are you getting through all your To-Do or just making do? Perhaps, like me, your To-Do list has run amok. I might need a To-Don’t list. My To-Do list runneth over, not just from the plethora of daily tasks I need to check off but from those desired and stubborn...
by Valerie | Sep 1, 2017 | Advice, Career, Keepin' It Real..., Work-Life Balance
It’s the start of the school year so I can understand how you have arrived here with the rest of us. Where’s here? Let me ask a simple question as you rush about your day. If I ask how things are going at work or at home, do you reply,...
by Valerie | Jul 24, 2017 | Career, Work-Life Balance
Anyone have a friend like “Marisa”? You know the type – amazingly good at everything she does. She’s a VP at a major organization who travels internationally while raising her two young boys with the utmost care and concern and hosting...
by Valerie | Jun 25, 2017 | Work-Life Balance
Do you juggle? I mean, not professionally in the circus or anything like that. (But hey, if you do, cool!) I mean the Juggle of Life. The career obligations. The family obligations. The personal needs and plans and desires. The spouse and the kids and the house and...
