Hey ladies. We need to talk. This is a serious matter, and more importantly, this is a moment when we need to support each other. There has been a staggering shift happening with Black women in the workforce. During 2025, nearly 600,000 Black women were economically sidelined from the U.S. workforce—a number that includes women…
Category: Mental health
You Don’t Have to Give Everything You Have: A Lesson in Work, Wisdom, and Knowing When Enough Is Enough
One of the most important business lessons I ever learned came after I landed my first government contract with the City of Portland. I was proud of that contract. I had worked hard to earn it, and I wanted to prove that my communications firm was capable, creative, and committed to excellence. The contract included…
Answering hard relationship questions with your teen and tween kids
One of the hardest parts of parenting after a divorce, separation, or difficult relationship is figuring out what to tell your children when they start asking grown-up questions. When my daughter was younger, I made a conscious decision not to share adult details with her. She was a child. She didn’t need to carry adult…
The Greater You Love Yourself, The Stronger Your Intuition
There comes a point in a woman’s life where exhaustion changes her. Not the kind of exhaustion that sleep fixes.The kind that comes from overexplaining yourself. Overgiving. Overhoping. Overlooking red flags because you wanted to believe the best in people. And if we’re honest, many of us have been there. And I wish I would…
Motherhood Real Talk: Parenting While Reparenting — Breaking Cycles & Building a New Legacy
There’s a quiet truth many women carry into motherhood that doesn’t always get said out loud: Some of us are raising our children… while learning how to raise ourselves. And that’s not weakness.That’s awareness. For many of us, childhood didn’t come with the softness, guidance, or emotional safety we needed. Maybe you were born to…
Elevate your life! Empowering Women Everywhere 