6 Things I’ve Learned from a Year Without Facebook and Instagram
As I continue my year of refinement, I want to take some time to reflect on my biggest refinement to date: deleting my Facebook and Instagram accounts. It’s been a full year since I quit Facebook and Instagram — and I mean really quit. I didn’t just deactivate or suspend my accounts, or just delete […]
Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Quiet Quitting
Every month, I have a call with my fabulous content marketing team at Rep Cap to talk about my upcoming month’s newsletter. On our latest call, I told them that the one thing I absolutely didn’t want to write about this month was “quiet quitting.” Why not? I’ve seen so many different definitions of the […]
A “Control Enthusiast”’s Guide to Workplace Uncertainty
I once referred to myself as a “control freak” in front of a friend. “Don’t be so hard on yourself,” she said. , “You’re not a control freak; you’re a control enthusiast.” What a brilliant reframe. As a loud and proud control enthusiast, I’m the first to admit that I hate all of the uncertainty […]
Why I’m Spreading the Word About Pay Transparency
Several years ago, I spoke at a conference for an advertising agency. I happened to be the only female speaker that day. At the end of the event, the (female) client pulled me aside. “I have to tell you something,” she said. “You were the best speaker today and the cheapest by half. All of […]
Prepare For the Future of Work: The Top 5 Upcoming Trends
By now, the pandemic has shaken most of our core assumptions about work. When and where we work have been hotly debated for the past couple of years. Now, as evidenced by the Great Resignation, many professionals are even questioning what work is and why we do it. If anybody tells you they know where […]
How Quitting Facebook Helped Me Grow My Business
Facebook lost roughly 1 million daily active users in the last few months of 2021. I’m one of them. As part of my declared “year of no,” I decided to cancel my personal and professional Facebook and Instagram accounts. Many people have written about the personal benefits of cutting back on social media, such as […]
What Blistering Pain Taught Me About Positivity in Social Media
Last month, I presented an all-day, in-person multigenerational management session. The training went well, BUT… I wore a pair of adorable almond-toe, skinny-heeled black suede booties. It was the first time I wore heels since — you know what’s coming — March 2020. By the end of the day, my feet were throbbing, my back […]
Making the Hybrid Workplace Work
I recently joined the JA Worldwide Global Council and, as part of the group, attended my very first in-person meeting since COVID swept the globe. The meeting took place in a law firm conference room in midtown Manhattan. It was a microcosm of “the new normal”: Half of us were in person — masked, vaccinated […]
Supporting Emotional Wellness at Work
I’m calling it now: Mental health in the workplace is going to be the HR headline for 2022. I’m hearing from employees and leaders at all levels across all industries about how they’re experiencing higher burnout, anxiety and depression, as well as how employers are receiving more and more requests from employees for mental health […]
When the Familiar Becomes Unfamiliar
We’re currently in what I’ve been referring to as the “messy middle” of the pandemic return-to-office experience. Many people planned to return in September, but COVID cases trended back up and our plans were upended again. We expected things to have changed for the better by now; instead, we’re left with no clear end in […]