Why the Career Superwoman is a Figment of My Imagination

It’s a bird. It’s a plane.

No it’s an ambulance coming to take Career Superwoman to the hospital.

Like so many women attempting to balance the demands of an ascent up Career Mountain with marriage, family and business, I too suffered from a case of undiagnosed career burnout.

Fresh from an unexpected tour of Bed, Bath and Bedpan, I asked myself whether today’s modern woman can have it all and successfully attain the super heroine trifecta:

7 figure salaries, perfect families and slender figures…and most importantly should we? Read the rest of this entry »

Should You Play the Role of June Cleaver or Miranda Priestly to Win at Work?

(Editor’s Note: If you are offended by the b-word, you might want to click away from this article.  There are a few choice curse words within this lesson. You nice girls might get a little offended.)

Whether women should play the nice girl role or act like a bitch in business is a debate as old as time itself.

As an empowered career woman you want your own slice of Aretha’s R-E-S-P-E-C-T pie.

But, you don’t know as a business strategy whether you should unleash your inner female dog or let your nice girl run free.

As more women enter the executive suite in record numbers, I ask you, who wins in business: the June Cleaver, baking-cookies-nice-girl, or the Miranda Priestly, Devil-Wears-Prada-acting bitch? Read the rest of this entry »