I’ve chased it for years, and I know you have too. Everyone talks about the elusive “work-life balance,” that magical state where you can put in just as much into your home life as you do your career, coming out on top in both arenas. A year or two after Lean In came out, and…

When it comes to any test deemed to help you know yourself better, I’m a total sucker. I can’t help it: Whenever I see one, I’m like, “What do I not know about myself that is definitely holding me back and keeping me from NSYNC-circa-2001 levels of greatness?! WHAT?!” I can’t be alone. We all…

Starring in The Boss doesn’t mean Melissa McCarthy knows anything about managing people. Spending 20 years working her way up the ladder in the film industry, running her own production company, On The Day, and launching a clothing line (Seven7) does. The comedian’s a B-O-S-S, and in the May issue of Glamour — the first…

Admittedly, I really wanted the title of this post to be “What The Founder Of Poo-Pourri Can Teach You About Making Sure Your Shhh Don’t Stink.” But that’s a little long, and it didn’t totally fit the vibe of this post, so I decided to go the straightforward route. It’s all inspired by a recent…

Congratulations. It’s hard to believe, but we’re already our fourth month into the new year, which means it’s a great time to reflect on how we’re pacing towards our New Year’s resolutions. If you’re like me, chances are your resolutions could be broken down into two categories: to-do-list resolutions and big-hairy-audacious resolutions. Their are a…

Since launching TheSkimm in 2012, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin have grown their weekday newsletter to reach 6 million people and counting — and every step of the way, they’ve heard all kinds of reasons why their business wouldn’t work. Email is dead, women is too narrow of a market (really?!), the list goes on.…

Guy Fieri is exactly, and in some ways, nothing like what you’d expect. He’s absolutely the guy you see on Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives and Guy’s Grocery Games — a bold jokester who’s food-obsessed and always down to have a good time. But what I didn’t expect the first time I spoke to him was…

Sometimes, a single sentence can change the way you look at the world. It’s something you want to share with every person you meet, hoping they get the same kind of horizon-expanding, “I’ve never looked at it that way!” eureka moment. (Sadly, all too often you’ll be met with blank stares and a polite “that’s…

I’ve gone back and forth on writing this post. Part of me feels like I have no place writing it — what authority do I have on the topics of gun control and school violence in America?! — but a larger part of me can’t stay quiet. I write to process things; here, I’m doing…

Gary Vaynerchuk isn’t one for sugarcoating the truth to make it easier for you to swallow. He’d rather jam it down your throat. After all, he’s the f-bomb-dropping entrepreneur who turned his family’s wine business into a $60 million a year company, then launched his own digital marketing agency, Vaynermedia. He knows his stuff, and…

Sometimes you need a book that guts you, that acts like a soul excavation, making you rethink what you believe about yourself and what you can do. Yes, I know how melodramatic that sounds, but something cracked open in me when I picked up Erwin McManus’s latest book, The Last Arrow. It’s a tome devoted…