Author Archives: Career Queens

It’s time for everyone’s favourite topic – Goals! Wait! Don’t leave yet. I know that most people don’t love talking about goal-setting. It feels like something that gets repetitively raised with you by all the self-help books and inspiring people you look up to. “This is how I’m so successful”, they say. I’m not goingContinue reading “Goal get it girl”

Since we started this blog, we’ve intentionally not mentioned the big C word. COVID. The reason for that is because we felt like everyone deserved a bit of a break from it. I personally felt that at every socially-distanced Zoom catch up, it was all that was ever talked about. How many cases there wereContinue reading “What I learned in 2020”

This week’s post is from Tess, and is just a timely reminder to take time over the holiday period to relax and reset. Enjoy! Coming from a girl who wants to conquer her world, I have one (okay well more than one) concept I need to do a lot of work on….I need to learnContinue reading “I am terrible… at actually enjoying my life!”

This has honestly been one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received. It came from my Dad. One day when I was 12 years old, I was complaining to him about netball and how my coach kept putting me in the Wing Attack position and never letting me play in goals. He askedContinue reading “You don’t ask, you don’t get”

Mansplaining is not a very popular term for a number of reasons, primarily because men (understandably) tend to be offended by it. Not all men are Mansplainers and not all Mansplainers are men. Not all Mansplainers content themselves with explaining to just women. Often men can be victims to Mansplainers. But the reason this termContinue reading “Navigating a Meeting with a Mansplainer”

It was interesting when I started researching this post how little writing there is on this subject. I tried looking up “How to work with older workers” in Google, and most of the results were referencing “How to manage someone older than you”. That might be a topic for another day.  For now, what IContinue reading “How to work with someone as old as your Dad”

Dressing for success seems to be a very different problem for women than for men. Not to say that men can’t or don’t have similar pressures when it comes to outside professional appearance. It does however seem to be a theme that what a woman is wearing can often overshadow great work she’s doing. OneContinue reading “Dress for success – Can I still wear a dress?”