April 2023

The Power of Loyalty

Happy Easter, dear friends. My Ultimate Concierge and my pooch America wish you a day of celebration. Love, Shelly, Honey, and America Today is Easter. A few days ago was Passover. Loyalty is on my mind. I am fiercely devoted to the meaning of the word, loyal, and lately, after my trip to East Africa, […]

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2 Entrepreneurs Share the Decisions that Helped Their Businesses Take Off

Sam Sidney and Anna Baglaneas Eves are two entrepreneurs who started businesses by following their passions. Here, they share their business stories and offer advice for other new entrepreneurs. Sam Sidney Sam Sidney began making portraits out of felt scraps with her four kids during the pandemic. After receiving her first commission—”a high school friend

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7 Doable Fixes for the Sunday Scaries to Try Now

It’s terrifying, and it’s coming—Monday. In a phenomenon well-known as the “Sunday Scaries,” the first day of the workweek is something to seriously dread for many Americans. In a 2021 poll by isolved, 42% of workers reported that they get “very stressed the night before returning to a workweek.” Though it might seem that the

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Two Entrepreneurs Share Advice on Leaving a Corporate Role and Becoming Self-Employed

As a workforce, we’ve spent a great deal of time the last few years reflecting on what we want out of our careers, and how to go about achieving it. After experiencing an unparalleled shift in many corporate jobs from cubicle life to couch adjacent (via the pandemic), some employees realized they wanted to make

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Designing a Purposeful Life with Teneshia Jackson Warner

Teneshia Jackson Warner was in a rut in her career and her life. One day, a professor teaching a class in her master’s program gave students an assignment: “Examine every major decision you’ve made up until now and the driving forces that led you to make those decisions.”  After some thought, Jackson Warner realized the

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How I’m Overcoming Perfectionism and Why I’m No Longer Scared to Fail

“Perfectionism is a self-destructive belief system. It’s a way of thinking that says: “If I look perfect, live perfect, and work perfect, I can avoid or minimize criticism and blame.” ~Brené Brown I struggled with trying new things in my past. I learned growing up that failure was bad. I used to be a gifted

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How Parents Feel About Remote and Hybrid Work Being Here to Stay

During the pandemic, I switched careers to a permanent remote job, running my own business. I was also pregnant with my fourth child, had two kids attempting the hot mess that was remote learning, a husband stealing parts of my desk for his Zoom calls and about all the chaos possible. What I didn’t anticipate

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