by Mayda | Aug 24, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Goals, Stress Management
Let’s talk about September! end of carefree (?) summer, back to school, and the 🤬daily grind – plus all the end-of-the-year planning, quarterly, yearly, promotions, bonus pools…. Who wants to come back to a pile of problems? Nobody sane – and yet who...
by Mayda | Jul 25, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Healthy habits, Stress Management
How do you do work/life balance? Have you been asked this question during an interview?  Is that a trap? Your future employer wants to know you are 100% committed to the job but also that you will not burn out after a year. Tricky right? Any job in leadership...
by Mayda | Jun 14, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Stress Management
You have already sent 200 resumes, and connected with scores of people on Linkedin and IRL, and yet, nothing seems to be happening, except more anxiety and the perception that there are no more open doors for you. So now what? Common sense says be patient and take...
by Mayda | Mar 24, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Goals, Personal growth, Stress Management
[sigh…] You could have been overpreparing yourself, spent hours of mental work going through “what ifs”, gotten to the point of “ok, I can deal with almost anything” and then boom, your black swan event happens. All that work and planning for nothing. Emotions take...
by Mayda | Feb 20, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Goals, Personal growth, Stress Management
When I was an investment banker, working from one version of “the world is collapsing, do something about it”, to another “midnight tonight is your deadline”, one of my favorite pastimes was imagining how my life would be if instead of finance, I had chosen...
by Mayda | Jan 23, 2023 | Career Growth, Featured, Getting Promoted, Goals, Healthy habits, Stress Management
Have you been finding yourself frustrated, huffin and puffin, each time you are heading to the office? And realizing that 1/ you don’t remember the last time you got excited about anything, not even that raise, 2/ you are mentally working 24/7 and getting lip service...