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This week on WGT it was all about social media—why we love it, why we hate it, and how to tame it.

May 14, 2021

How to Brand Yourself and Stay Sane on Social Media: 3 Things I Learned This Week with Author Jessica Abo and Half the Story’s Larissa May

What’s your negotiating style? And how can you use it to get more out of work and life? Attorney and expert mediator Erin Gleason Alvarez is in the hot seat for this week’s 5 Questions.

April 30, 2021

How to Ask for That Raise: 5 Questions on Finding Your Negotiating Style with Attorney and Expert Mediator Erin Gleason Alvarez

What a week on We Gotta Talk! Here are three big lessons I learned from my interview with the amazing Joanna Lovering, executive presence coach and founder of Copper + Rise.

April 30, 2021

How to Successfully Negotiate for a Raise: 3 Things I Learned About Knowing Your Worth

It’s been a little while since we talked about working here…I’m talking about working a job. An out-of-the-house, insurance-providing, answering-to-an-actual-human-boss kind of job. (And not toddler humans. Adult humans.)

August 29, 2017

That Gut Feeling

Yes, I’m that weirdo you see at Starbucks talking to her phone and saying things like, “I’ll call you right back, semicolon. I’m holding the baby, period. See you soon, exclamation point!”

July 18, 2017

How Do You Work Best?

You guys, I had such a great experience at BlogHer here in Orlando today. I couldn’t go to more than one day’s worth of events (#childcareissues #momlife), but today I got to listen to and speak with some incredible, smart and motivated women who made me more excited about than ever this new journey that I’m on.

June 24, 2017

Just Gonna Leave This Here

“It ain’t ditch diggin’.” That’s my all-time favorite quote about working as an anchor in television news. My all-time favorite co-anchor would say it every time we or another anchor would complain about something we had on our plates for the day.

April 27, 2017

Everything I Know About Being a Mom I Learned in a Newsroom

On this part of my tour of The Alfond Inn in Winter Park, Florida, I got a delicious taste of the menu at their signature restaurant, Hamilton’s Kitchen.

January 27, 2017

Chow Down (on INCREDIBLE food) at The Alfond Inn hotel in Winter Park, Florida

Since I started blogging, I came to realize–very quickly–the importance of photography. As much as the words matter, the pictures matter, too. So that’s why I started an unofficial photography course as of today. As of now, I know how to press the button. ?

January 23, 2017

The Other Side of the Camera

I knew at some point it would happen, and today it did. When talking with a woman I’ve known for years asked how I was doing “not working,” and I said, “Great!” I got The Look. The “You Gotta Be Kidding Me, Lady” look.

January 4, 2017

The 3 Month Check-In