by Jessica Gendron | Apr 9, 2020 | Career, Leadership, Professional
#RealTalk: Small Businesses are Not Okay I was on a Zoom call with a friend on Tuesday morning and he asked, “How’s your small business doing?” The only response I could muster was, “It’s brutal right now.” I went on to...
by Jessica Gendron | Mar 30, 2020 | Balance, Leadership
There we were, yelling at each other, standing in the master bathroom. I can’t even recall what it was about, but it was pointless. It was just one, amongst a string of inconsequential disagreements my partner and I have had in the last two weeks. He walked out...
by Jessica Gendron | Dec 10, 2019 | Competition-Comparison, For College Students, Professional, Women
This is part of a five part series focused on reframing the conversation around competition and comparison among women. We recommend you start by reading Part One: Catfight! In Part One of this series, we talked about how changing the conversation for women around...
by Jessica Gendron | Dec 3, 2019 | Competition-Comparison, For College Students, Professional, Women
Part 1 of 5. I could spew data for days about competition among women. We could talk about all of the reasons why women see competition negatively, why when we compete with each other it’s seen as catty, how hostile competition is a mask for insecurity, and on...
by Jessica Gendron | Nov 21, 2019 | Career, Professional, Self-Advocacy, Women
Regardless of the process your boss or your organization uses to evaluate performance, you can and should be the driver of your annual performance evaluation. As a young professional, I was always a passive participant in my annual reviews. I would sit down and wait...
