Career Advice
A blog by Marie Deveaux
She’s Got the Whole World
. . . on her shoulders Women in business spaces take on a lot. The "have it all" mantra doesn't seem to be working out in our favor. stats: women are more educated than men women still make 80% of the salary of their male counterparts 62% of women entrepreneurs say...
Give More to Get More Business Opportunities
I want to tell you the best kind of Thanksgiving story. The kind that starts with giving and ends with the thanks. Sometimes, when building our businesses, we forget that we started them with the intention of being of service to others. If we can get back to that...
Ewomen: A Network Designed For Women Entrepreneurs
A Network For Women Entrepreneurs The Ewomen Network is designed to help entrepreneur women grow into their greatness for the explicit purpose of changing the world. When good women make good money, they do good things. And its true. Earning money isn’t about greed,...
Networking Your Ass Off A How To Guide
Eww, Networking I am an introvert. I don't like interacting with people. Let me rephrase: I prefer not to interact with other people or much of the world outside of myself. I find my energy comes from within. Extroverts get their energy from the external world. They...
How to Break Free From the Work For Money Mindset
Working for money is not a good thing. It's also not a bad thing. Most of us had to be taught to apply this "work for money" mindset early on in our careers. But we did not start this way. And there is no time like the present to break free of unhealthy learned...
Work or Sleep? Sprints, Siestas and Solopreneur Productivity
To Work or To Sleep? Most entrepreneurs are workaholics by default. The nature of birthing a business is to be all in, 24/7 and the good ones are also at the top of their game. And therein lies the tension. To work or to sleep? If the goal is productivity, what...
Blaming for Bias is Backwards
The White Guy In The Room In the month of April I taught 8 workshops on the topic of unconscious bias and 3 on microaggression and inclusivity. Between those engagements there were other clients and other topics around various forms of communication. But it always...
Caveday: 7 Ways This Startup Makes Work More Effective
A week ago I participated in a CaveDay. It's a community of coworkers who come together to get deep work done. Facilitators lead you through a serious of work sprints to help encourage deep work and extreme focus around the milestones of a larger project. so much...
The Email You Don’t Send
The Easy Emails The interesting thing about communication is that people think it's all about self expression. It is not. Communication is a service based skill. Which means it's not about what you need in that moment; it's what your audience needs. What service can...
Quit Your Job, Have Some Cake
BIRTHDAY KIND OF KNOWLEDGE It's my birthday month. The one time of the year where no one faults you for being giddy like a child. It's the bitter sweetness, but mostly sweetness of getting older and wiser and feeling like "this year, i'm grown" and "This year I...
Good Loving 7 Ways
It's Valentine's Day. A day, for love, lover's, and loving. Another marketing ploy to get thirsty Americans to buy useless stuff that will eventually end up in a donation bin, behind someone's gas station parking lot. Four year old overstuffed teddy bear anyone? Who...
You Are Good At Meditation
Femme Totale Launch Last weekend, the Femme Totale, a newly minted women's empowerment network hosted our first event. This was a collaboration between yours truly and the talented stylist Luxe LeBlanc. For those who didn't catch it, there was fried chicken and rum...