Being a working mom is just about the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Am I right? I know that for a lot of us, the struggle with being a working mom is mostly internal. It’s hard to know how to draw the line in the sand between work and personal life. It’s hard to feel “in the moment”. It’s hard to feel accomplished. It’s just hard. Many of the hesitations working moms possess stem from this diseased “Pinterest-perfect” culture we live in. It’s so easy to look at other moms on social media and think, “damn, they’ve got it together—I wish I did, too.” Comparing our lives to others is…

“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.” –Dolly Parton It is unfortunate when other people have the ability to discourage us from taking positive steps into our future. Thankfully, when I start to feel this way, I turn to Dolly Parton and instantly feel better. As female entrepreneurs we cannot let others define the roll we play in our businesses. We cannot shorten our dreams just because outsiders cannot understand our full potential. We must rely on something more; we must rely on ourselves. Our brains tell our feet to walk, so therefore, only we are capable of…

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.” –Elizabeth Gilbert Are we swimming in the upward currents of happiness? I think it’s an essential question to ask ourselves. Too often, I believe, we become susceptible to negativity in our businesses. We…

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. –Lucille Ball There is no such thing as an overnight success. We get to where we are through tireless work and long hours. And then one morning, we wake up and it falls into place. That is the truth about overnight successes. If we believe in luck, we miss out on a lot of other fabulous opportunities. We miss out on the opportunity to learn from our failures. We miss out on the opportunities…