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You Don't Have to Finish the Year the Way You Started It
There is a particular kind of woman who will read this and recognize herself immediately, and she is usually the one who least needs another reason to keep...
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Essays
When Your Life Looks Fine but Doesn't Feel Right
My friend Kate described it to me as the sweater problem. She had a sweater she loved for eleven years, and then one autumn she put it on and it was wrong....
Podcast
Cindy Trice: Turning a Cancer Experience Into a Business That Helps Women
Cindy Trice never expected cancer to become part of her business story. The veterinarian, entrepreneur, and cancer survivor shares how her own experience h...
Editorial Team ·Sep 2026·1 min
Business
What Women Should Know About Equal Pay in 2026
The number moved in the wrong direction again. Women working full-time, year-round now earn 81 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to Census Bu...
Business
Before You Say Yes, Price the Whole Project
A client offers you $900 to write, design, plan, or build something. You look over the request, estimate six hours of work, and the offer feels like $150 a...
WEFTS
What Our Mothers Taught Us About Work, Money, and Independence
My mother kept cash in three places in the house and never told my father about the third one. I knew about all three by the time I was nine, not because s...
Essays
9 Things to Leave Behind Before the Year Ends
My mother used to clean out the linen closet in the fall. Not the whole house, and never in spring the way the expression promises. Just that one closet, s...
Career
The Skills That Make You Valuable at Work
Ask most people what makes someone valuable at work and you will get an answer about competence. She is good at her job. She knows the technical material....
Podcast
Sarah-Mae Amde on Building a Business That Grows and Lasts
Sarah-Mae Amde, CEO and Founder of Paragon, joins us to talk about business growth, leadership, and building success that lasts. She shares lessons from mo...
Editorial Team ·Sep 2026·1 min
Career
When Did Being Good at Your Job Become Managing Everyone's Feelings?
The planning meeting ends at 3:30, and you have ninety minutes to finish the budget summary due tomorrow morning. You are halfway back to your desk when Da...
Features
The Problem With Calling Every Woman Resilient
The word gets said at funerals. It gets said in eulogies for women who died at fifty-eight of conditions that were treatable if anyone had looked, and the...
Leadership
The Difference Between Being Needed and Being a Good Leader
There is a sensation that arrives when your phone rings and it is the third person this week who cannot proceed without you, and the sensation is not entir...
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