9 Lives for Women Blog

A Fast Company article just caught my eye: “Five Things You Need to Know to Manage A Flexible Workforce”. It’s a good article that further clarifies the need for and benefits of flexibility…but it does not offer up clear-cut solutions to the challenges of managing a flexible team. Don’t get me wrong…I believe that everyone’s work…

This is a shout-out to Christy Meares of Wilmington, North Carolina, a woman I have never met. She’s a “mommy blogger” who writes under the moniker Frugalful, “a money-saving blog for women living the pretty life on a budget”. An article Christy wrote for TIME.com caught my attention, “How to Use Flex Time to Reduce Summer…

So often women tell me that they’ll return to work when they feel they’ve put the requisite time into what I call their first caregiving job—raising children.  But that might just be when their second caregiving job begins—helping aging parents. This fact was crystal clear when I read the New York Times article, “Women Leave Their…

For many women who have been at home for a decade or more, there is a good measure of fear and trepidation about a now less familiar working world. Aside from catching up with your industry, technology has advanced in leaps and bounds, and digital and social media platforms that seem to be from another…

Even when I was much younger the notion of “retirement” seemed strange. I couldn’t wrap my head around the idea that at some point, after working and saving for many years, your best, most indulgent life would begin. I could never see that the magical time would be one of no big agendas, no “must…

With my book underway, I’m interviewing many people who know firsthand the trials and tribulations women experience with life’s “you never knows”. Every year LouAnn Bloomer, the CEO of TBICO in Danbury, Connecticut, helps more than 500 women move past unexpected adversity, and she has some simple, but powerful lessons for any…