The Brave Enough Community wants to hear your stories. What empowers you? How did you find your career path? What's your style? Your advice may help women who are struggling with their career, friendships, family life or personal identity. All posts below are written by community members who are #braveenough.
If you feel called to write, email Sasha at INFO@BecomeBraveEnough.com.
At some point in your career you will face an unexpected event; an injury, burnout, triplet pregnancy, career change, or natural disaster that destroys your house. The list could go on and on. Additionally, you may love your job and plan to work into your 60s and beyond, but life may have different plans for you.
Read MoreWrite a grant, they said…it will be great, they said. Sure, I said, why not? Write another one, it will be good for your career! Of course, I said, I want to be on track for advancement to associate professor. Write another one, your research idea is great! Yes, I said, I write well –how hard can it be?
Read MoreLast year when registration opened for the BE conference...I didn’t register. I didn’t think the conference was for me. I’m different. I don’t have a ton of girlfriends. I don’t shop that much, and I don’t even wear lipstick! Brave Enough...is not for me.
Read MoreThe word 'cleanse' normally elicits a reflexive reaction on my part, being a medical doctor and having encountered some fascinating ways in which people clean themselves out. But the one I discuss below was long overdue.
Read MoreI remember the first time my high school friend mentioned this term to me. “She lacks self-confidence,” he told me. “So instead of striving for more, she just settles on the low hanging fruit”.
Read MoreAll of us want to ‘have it all’- career, spouse, kids, rock hard abs, time to travel the world, and numerous besties ready to spend time with us deconstructing our week of work/home/play.
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