There's a scene in The Good Wife that sticks with me. Alicia Florrick walks silently down a hallway, wine glass in hand, heels clicking firmly against marble floors. She doesn't scream or shout; her silence holds more weight than any outburst ever could. Watching her, I saw a reflection of moments I've known too well: times when silence felt safer than speaking the truth, when politeness was more valued than honesty. I've stood in hallways like that, though mine were usually less glamorous—more fluorescent-lit corporate spaces, fewer …
When Full Price Feels Fair, But Discount Feels Familiar
Reconciling self-worth with the messy truth about love and effort It didn’t end with a bang. It ended like a slow leak. Not with a betrayal, but with a shrug. A tired sigh followed by: "It’s fine." It wasn’t. I knew it. My body had known it longer than my mouth was willing to admit. The sigh was just a placeholder for all the things I didn’t feel safe enough—or maybe brave enough—to say. It wasn’t one big thing. It was a hundred little ones. Another casual plan that included me on paper but excluded me in practice. A conversation …
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Growth Isn’t a Group Agreement
Change has a cost, and it’s not just effort. It’s tension. Start improving yourself—your focus, your habits, your mindset—and you’ll feel it. Not just internally, but between you and the people who’ve known the earlier version of you. The one who tolerated more, who laughed things off, who didn't ask so many questions. When one person starts growing, the dynamic shifts. Not always dramatically. Not always in conflict. But enough to notice. Enough to create distance. You begin valuing your time differently. Your conversations start …
How AI is Reshaping Design Leadership and Designer Hiring
One afternoon, a designer slid a portfolio across the table. Immaculate work. Every detail whispered precision—layout, type, flow. But something about it felt… plastic. “Midjourney did most of it,” he admitted. And just like that, the illusion shattered. AI hadn’t just entered the room—it had redecorated it and started hosting interviews. AI is no longer experimental; it’s operational. Inside product teams, it’s writing code, sketching interfaces, even making hiring decisions. And in the middle of it all, design leaders are being told to …
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why the Hardest Decisions Don’t Fit Neatly on a Mood Board
I. The Exit Myth We love an exit. Especially a well-timed, sharply worded one. The kind that gets a standing ovation in a boardroom or a viral quote block on Instagram. “Know your worth,” it says. “Walk away from what doesn’t serve you.” We cheer. We repost. We crave the empowerment of decisive departures. But real life isn’t an airport departure board. Sometimes, the only way to tell if you’re making the right decision is by living through the wrong one. I’ve left jobs that looked great on paper. Walked out of relationships where love …
The Sisterhood We Don’t Talk About
I’ve had a sister all my life. One house, two girls, three hundred silent wars over borrowed clothes and emotional space. We fought over the front seat, lipstick shades, the right to grieve differently. But we also fought for each other—quietly, clumsily. I knew she’d burn the world if anyone hurt me, but she’d still take the bigger slice of cake when no one was watching. That’s the kind of love I grew up with. Familiar, flawed, loyal. So it threw me when adulthood demanded a different kind of sisterhood. One not built into the family tree, …
We’re Not Juggling—We’re Building a Damn Circus
People love saying women are great at multitasking. As if we’re circus performers keeping a dozen balls in the air while smiling for applause. But I don’t think that’s what we’re doing. We’re not just juggling. We’re strategizing with a toddler on one hip. We’re giving feedback while remembering the milk is about to expire. We’re managing egos in boardrooms and bedtime stories at home. We’re leading—with empathy, without apology. And doing it all while resisting the pressure to smile too much or too little. We don’t juggle. We build …
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The Bold Type Isn’t Just a TV Show. It’s a Manual for Women Who Are Done Shrinking.
Behind the polished wardrobe and photo-ready friendships, The Bold Type cracks open the real mess of modern womanhood—and teaches you how to keep showing up for yourself, even when you don’t know what you’re doing. Three women. One closet. A thousand ways to say: I’ve got you. “If you’re not scared, you’re not growing.”— Jacqueline Carlyle I didn’t expect a show about a fashion magazine to help me navigate a breakup or confront medical anxiety—but it did. The Bold Type starts out feeling like a millennial Pinterest board …