by Laurie Swanson | Aug 24, 2020 | Career Blog
I recently read an article in Oprah Magazine (the one with Breonna Taylor on it – the only cover in the magazines’ history that did not feature Oprah) about Gabriel Dawe. Gabriel grew up in Mexico City and when he was young spent a lot of time in markets looking...
by Laurie Swanson | Aug 17, 2020 | Career Blog
Strap on your “Anything Is Possible” wings because I had a mystical experience that gave me another way to further my mission to Defy Career Hustle Culture AND have Career Success! (Read the Career Hustle Culture blog). I was out and about in my car, feeling the...
by Laurie Swanson | Aug 10, 2020 | Career Blog
I recently started working with the App called Lose It!. I had been slowly but surely losing weight for almost two years. I adjusted what I ate. I was eating less breads, pasta and sugar and more proteins, fruits and veggies. I also was getting regular exercise 3-7...
by Laurie Swanson | Aug 3, 2020 | Career Blog
For all of March and April and most of May, I was busy at work. There was not much recruiting going on, but I had lots of projects to work on (including wrapping up the final details on Take Charge: Job Search Readiness Tool for Women in Tech that will be launching...
by Laurie Swanson | Jul 27, 2020 | Career Blog
This past weekend we had our monthly meetup. Our topic was More Fun From 9-5 and we talked about the benefits of fun, how much fun we currently have in our day and how to bring more fun into our work. A leading researcher on play, Stuart Brown, says the opposite of...
by Laurie Swanson | Jul 20, 2020 | Career Blog
I was recently talking with a coaching client whose job has significantly changed since Covid19. She has been moved to a new team helping to develop a new product. Doesn’t sound so bad, right? Wrong! She LOVED what she was doing before. She loved the people she worked...