“Hurry up, you’ll miss the bus!” “What? you didn't have time to finish your lunch?!” “I can’t meet you after work today; it’ll be 8 PM before I reach home in this traffic.” These are just a few examples of the rhetoric I experienced while...
When my son was young, and I asked him what he wanted for Christmas or his birthday, his answer never changed. “A million dollars.” To a child, a million dollars feels limitless. A magic number. The kind of money that makes every problem disappear. But the truth is far less...
As the managing editor of the Gutsy Issue of G-Woman Magazine, I felt a responsibility to include real-world examples of everyday women making gutsy decisions. Hence, I reached out to 6 women who I believed embodied the archetype of a G-Woman: Gifted, Genius, and Gamechanger. I wanted...
The dictionary defines gutsy as showing courage, determination and spirit. Plucky is another word they use, but plucky reminds me of the women from movies in the 40’s with their rapid repartee and bold entrances. They worked in newsrooms and wore pants like Katherine Hepburn, who was known for...
It's not your appearance, your resume, or even your zip code. It's your belief system. These subconscious stories can have more influence over your love life than any dating app ever will.
I recently underwent a procedure called uterine fibroid embolisation. It’s where they inject teeny tiny microbeads into your artery via your wrist, and this cuts off the blood supply to your fibroid, effectively shrinking it by up to 90%. Don’t let them fool you, though- the procedure is...
So What Does Power Look Like, or What Should it Look Like? For discerning women, it's not always a sharp blazer or a pair of statement heels. Sometimes, power is a whisper in the way we enter a room, a boldness in our gaze, or the elegance of...
I think it’s fair to say that my mother's face was prematurely wrinkled. It was a roadmap of intersecting lines, a study of crisscrossed patterns that ran across the avenues and planes of her face. Imagine it with me as a piece of art, an enlarged black-...