A week after Obama’s win and I have to admit that I am still ambivalent. Yes, I voted for Obama but I couldn’t participate in the wild excitement that swept over the country. The...
By my own definition, I am a damsel in success. For years, I've held off pursuing my dreams in order to become a mother of 2 and an Army wife of one. There's not a moment that passes where I look...
Lately, there were a few surprising bits of intelligence unwittingly passed on to me by 4 different people who did not know each other – surprising because none of them know each other and...
Last year I decided to participate in a mission trip to the Central African Republic to conduct research focused on micro-enterprise development through the Graduate Professional School Ministries...
“I don’t know why you take so much pride in failing,” an American ex-boyfriend and fellow Rhodes Scholar once said to me while we were dating. He made that remark in...
I love my job and I’m not afraid to say it. Many of my women friends are also executives, and some are support people—but all have a passion in their lives, whether it is work, their relationship,...
I am, what some may call, a habitual rebel by temperament. According to my mother, from the moment I could make up my own mind and say ‘no’ (that would be me from age 2 onwards), I had always...
I used to wish I were a boy, for a brief period in grade school. When I was younger, my mother told me this story from her life: after losing her first babies, twins of a boy and a girl, ten...
It's hard to tell your story when you are so used to telling others' for a living. I ask people to put their lives and tales in front of the world every day. Sometimes I have to convince...
Generally, I’m a free spirit when it comes to how I approach life but when it comes to work, I’ve always done what I should do opposed to what I want to do…until now. The path has been a bit...
My life as a retail entrepreneur plays out like a twisted Mastercard commercial. I have paid a price for my vision and the many costs involved include forfeiting a six-figure salary; no...