by angelahosking | Jan 21, 2018 | Career, Empower Yourself, Women's Empowerment, Workplace
One book, two glasses of wine, and 5 women changed my life a year ago. I was meeting with my newly formed Female Tribe of six one Thursday night. We were choosing the next book to read for our personal development over a couple of glasses of wine. One of my...
by angelahosking | Jan 14, 2018 | Build Your Confidence, Empower Yourself, Self improvement
It was the darn, lost laundry card that put her over the edge. Melissa* had managed to endure a hard week full of nasty notes from her boss (written in red ink, underlined and highlighted) which fueled her workplace insecurities. She had braved the sub-zero, frigid...
by angelahosking | Jan 7, 2018 | Build Your Confidence, Empower Yourself, Self improvement
It was a blog post about Chick-Fila sauce that made me think about the haters. A simple, well-written metaphor, that compared personal taste for which dipping sauce to use for your nuggets (Ketchup, Polynesian, or the author’s favorite-Chick-Fila sauce) and why...
by angelahosking | Jan 1, 2018 | Build Your Confidence, Empower Yourself, Self improvement, Women's Empowerment
My frenetic hamster was back on his wheel inside my head. Spinning his way through my jumbled thoughts, and increasing my anxiety, he had eroded any semblance of confidence I might have had ten minutes prior. As a result, I was now convinced that I was a complete,...
by angelahosking | Dec 26, 2017 | Build Your Confidence, Empower Yourself, Women's Empowerment
I have a female tribe. A full-fledged, drop-everything, call in the middle of the night, always there no- matter- what- sisterhood of six. We support each others fabulous flaws, beautiful strengths, and annoying tendencies with no judgement. Just laughter and...
by angelahosking | Dec 17, 2017 | Build Your Confidence, Empower Yourself, Self improvement, Women's Empowerment
I’m sorry. I really am. It’s not your fault. (It’s probably mine). But I am going to have to, pretty please, ask you (my fellow women) to stop apologizing. (Insert smiley face here). Although my request, borders on the slightly...
by angelahosking | Dec 10, 2017 | Build Your Confidence, Career, Empower Yourself
I could hear the thump-thud of the bus tires as it rolled across my body in the conference room. Stunned and shocked by the sudden push in front of its path, I looked up at my assaulter for the reason why. She stared blankly at me, as if we had never met before. As if...
by angelahosking | Dec 5, 2017 | Build Your Confidence, Empower Yourself, Self improvement
Psst. I know your secret. Your experience? Not enough. All those degrees on your wall? Anyone could do that. Those thoughts you had about how to save the company money and achieve its goals? Don’t speak up. It’s a stupid idea. Sooner or later the world is...
by angelahosking | Nov 19, 2017 | Self improvement, Work-Life Balance
I found the secret to work life balance completely by accident. As a goal-oriented workaholic, I was mystified how other people seemed to be able to “find the time” to fit everything in when I seemed to be running full steam ahead and barely had time to...
by angelahosking | Oct 29, 2017 | Career, Self improvement
We have all heard the argument for creating our own personal “elevator speech”, a 30-second commercial that communicates who you are, what you’re looking for and how you can benefit a company or organization in the time it takes to ride the company...
