• Sales, Leadership, and the Brutal Truths That Actually Make You Better

    Anytime you ask someone — a customer, investor, future business partner — for their precious time or …

  • I’m Thinking About Quitting My Job: Finding My Way Home

    My first book was written in second grade, Bonnie and Mimi Meet Teddy. I had …

  • Curiosity, Courtesy, and Character: 10 Cs for Influence Without Friction

    I’m convinced that most workplace dysfunction isn’t just a strategy problem. It’s …

  • An Unexpected New Year’s… and a Takeaway for the Ages

    Before we begin, don’t worry. This is a “New Year’s” story, but not …

  • So, A Woman Walks Into a Mammogram Appointment…

    Okay, okay. I just. I have to. Who here has ever left a mammogram appointment …

  • Progress Over Perfection, And Doing It Any Way

    Progress Over Perfection, And Doing It Any …

    Have you ever been so gripped by fear you couldn’t move? Like what you wanted most in life was right before you, beckoning you, but you were too afraid to seize it? Fear takes many forms. For some, it’s the…

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    Candidate Experience: Things That Make You Go Hmm…

    Candidate Experience: Things That Make You Go …

    I wasn’t going to publish this but a TED talk by Luvvie Ajayi Jones gave me the nudge I needed. Notice how I said I wasn’t going to publish instead of write—because the truth is, I started writing about this…

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    Didn’t know anyone, yet everyone was fam: My AfroTech Takeaways

    Didn’t know anyone, yet everyone was …

    AfroTech Conference 2024 wasn’t just another tech conference—it was the tech conference. Sure, it had the usual suspects: brilliant main-stagers, knowledge-dropping chiefs, cutting-edge panels in ice-cold theaters. Sessions covering all the hot topics like spatial audio, AI, cybersecurity, and climate…

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    Turning ‘Unqualified’ Into an Offer

    Turning ‘Unqualified’ Into an Offer

    Have you ever been told you didn’t qualify for a job you knew you could do, but couldn’t quite prove it “on paper”? I have! Want to know how I landed a job offer anyway? Now, fair warning, this isn’t a…

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    How I lost it all…or did I? My Unplanned Glow-Up

    How I lost it all…or did …

    In one week, I lost my job, my mom, and my man. To make this pity party really on and poppin’, three months earlier, only days before my birthday, let’s just say my cat and I went to the cat…

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