Do you work for a mission-driven organization? Do you uphold certain standards that you steadfastly believe are essential to the success of that organization? Have you found yourself fighting for these standards, regardless of the impact on the organization’s results? You may be a Keeper of the Flame. I recognize flame-keepers because I have been …
When I was in high school, my friend Ceytha and I shared a nightmare: being surrounded by a crowd of people, hissing “nice nice nice” at us. I suspect now that it had something to do with the pressures we felt as young women to “be nice” while we were doing things that Nice Girls …
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This week, for some reason, the right side of my torso has been in pain. Not the usual pain that we all feel, the stress in our shoulders from hunching over our laptops and phones. Not the tension that runs down through our jaw and neck from holding back unsaid words. A pin-pointed pain, sharp, …
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