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...
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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...
Business
Stop Trying to Sell to Everyone
Ask a woman who has been running a business for two years who her customer is, and you will frequently get an answer that covers most of the adult populati...
Career
Reinventing Yourself Without Starting From Zero
The sentence that stops most reinventions is some version of I would have to start over. A woman says it about a field she has been curious about for six y...
Leadership
How to Lead Someone You Don't Like
Sooner or later you will manage someone whose company you do not enjoy. Not someone who performs badly, which is a separate problem with a separate solutio...
Health & Wellness
How to Finish the Year Without Burning Yourself Out
The final quarter of the year is structurally the hardest one, and most people treat it as a matter of willpower rather than as a predictable convergence o...
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