It’s a beautiful thing, but we know that balancing the wonderful gift of motherhood with work can be challenging. So we wanted to come up with a couple pieces of advice that have helped us working mothers. From our working moms here at Ama La Vida, to all you strong, working mamas at home. Tips […]
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Maternity leave is an important time for you as a parent to bond with your new addition and for your family to adjust to an exciting, albeit exhausting, new normal. We have a long way to go in this country, but it has been great to see more and more companies providing substantial parental leave […]
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Your personal brand is much more than a logo or a catchy tagline – it’s an identity. When done right, personal branding can help you win new business and advance your career. But building your personal brand doesn’t come overnight. It requires commitment and dedication to working with the channels that yield the best results. […]
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In this edition of Founding Females: Sage Sales and Marketing I’m happy to introduce you to our Female Founder of the day, Brentney Hutchinson! Brentney is the Founder of Sage Sales and Marketing. I am super excited to share her story with you today because I have had the privilege of knowing Brentney before she […]
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Founding Females is back, and I couldn’t be more excited to introduce you to Rachel Rowland. Rachel is the Founder of Rachel Rowland Photography, a Pittsburgh based photography company that shoots weddings, portraits and lifestyle photography with the focus on telling stories and preserving legacies. I’ve had the privilege to get to know Rachel through […]
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The fight for women’s equality is filled with a dense and beautiful complexity. We finally have a voice. But very few of us realize that the voice came at the expense of women of color. The shoulders that we are standing on are the shoulders of marginalized women, the women who knew the pain of […]
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On a sunny morning in June, I woke up and decided to go skydiving. Because, why not? It turned out to be one of the most amazing life experiences I’ve ever had. The experience completely shifted my perspective on life, and these were the three things that I took away from my first skydive (it […]
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We’re so glad to see you back here at #foundingfemales, our series where we tell the stories of brave women who declared their independence and ventured out on their own to build the businesses they wanted to see in the world. Today we meet Rocio Lane, founder and CEO of Cleancio, a tech-enabled cleaning company. […]
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I’m building a modern business the old school way. My business is the antithesis of the Silicon Valley golden child. We haven’t raised a multi-million dollar funding round. We’re not 100% tech. People are a big part of our process. We value sleep as much as we value hard work. Most investors would give us […]
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*Kiss on the cheek* welcome to the company…*kiss on the cheek* onboarding session…*kiss on the cheek* new coworker…*kiss on the cheek* training…*kiss on the cheek*…team lunch. While the kiss on the cheek is a cultural greeting here that I love, it was a bit overwhelming on Day 1 of my new HR technology role in […]
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