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Continue reading →: Family Stress Will Break You Down if You Let ItFor Black women family pressures can be so extreme they inhibit growth, cause extreme stress and even pre-empt a downfall
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Continue reading →: Black Women over 40, Here’s What You Need to Know about that Toxic Friends and Family PlanBlack women often have a tough time dealing with family pressures. I know what it’s like, but I’ve figured out a way to quiet the noise and sharpen your focus where it should be — on yourself.
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Continue reading →: Betrayal Cuts Deeper than a Knife — Especially When It’s Close to HomeOne of my best friends comes from a large family. She has at least a dozen sisters — I’m exaggerating, but not by much — and she just told me a story about one sister and another sister’s child that made my blood boil. To preserve their privacy, we’ll call…
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Continue reading →: Invest in Friendship, Black Women. It’s the Best Life Move You Can MakeSo, my best friend is on the fast track to CPO, chief people officer, and I’m helping. She’s got decades of diverse and nuanced experience and know how in her repertoire, is successfully securing board seats, and we’re building her a strong, thematically driven brand that epitomizes her professional prowess…
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Continue reading →: Drake, Sometimes We Just Gotta Know Our PlaceSo, unless you were living under a rock you know that this Juneteenth Kendric Lamar held a sold out, celebrity studded show at the Forum in LA. It was essentially a televised continuation of his successful attack on Drake. It all started with a diss track, and it has escalated…
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Continue reading →: 6 Things Black Women Over 40 Should Tell Young Black Women But Don’tI hate gatekeeping. It is really low behavior. Withholding valuable information because it took a lot for you to learn it, and why should it be easy for someone else? Trash. Or because you think people need to learn lessons the hard way? Trash, I say. And my next question is…
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Continue reading →: Black Woman, Anger Is Not Your FriendI keep seeing this social media post featuring Maya Angelou where she talks about anger being good. It’s the fire that burns away the dross, she says in her effortlessly lyrical way, and in the context that she provides, I agree. But most of the time? Anger is not the…
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Continue reading →: Creating a Blog Only for Black Women over 40 Is RacistI’ve heard this so many times it’s sad. I actually wish I had a bill for every time I’ve heard some variation of: “You shouldn’t just write for one group of people.” Or — this one is a personal favorite — “Why are you being so exclusive? Don’t you think…
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Continue reading →: Sis, Looking for Love Don’t Mean You Gotta Be StupidI’m in NC visiting a great friend who I haven’t seen in two years. She was in a doctoral program, I was getting a master’s, we wisely chose to forgo our yearly gathering in the name of higher education. So, anyway, she’s Dr. now — NYU, thank you very much…
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