How a Working Mom Makes it Work
Juggling everything life has to offer is a struggle for every professional woman. There are tough decisions to make, rearranging to be done, and often (if not always), the grass seems greener in someone else’s yard. No one knows this better than professional women...
The Source Q&A: Allison Muirhead
Allison Muirhead is a well-known name around the Metro Jackson Area and beyond. She’s been there for many of our families to capture life-changing moments through her business, Allison Muirhead Photography. She spearheaded one of the largest philanthropic events in...
The Source Q&A: Albine Bennett
Every community needs an advocate and philanthropist like Albine Bennett. Albine is the Director of Communications for the CREATE Foundation, and her love of Northeast Mississippi is evident through her tireless work done both professionally and personally. Since The...
Encouraging & Amplifying
A study by Harvard Business Review claims during the average business meeting, men do around 75% of the talking. If you’re a female who has ever participated in one of these meetings, you know the “why” behind this statistic isn’t necessarily cut and dry. There are...
Summer Check Up
Summer for professional women can mean a lot of things: vacations, juggling kids’ uncertain schedules, end of fiscal years, end of second quarters. Depending on our particular season of life, we all seem to be in difference places during the summer. Regardless of...
Professional Superheroes & Superpowers
We all know those women who seem to be professional superheroes. They are those women we’re convinced have secretly been given more than the regularly-allotted twenty-four hours in a day. The Internet is full of articles about successful individuals (CEOs,...
Negotiating Your Schedule
Summer is often a time when the grass on the other side starts to look even greener than normal. Our friends seem to have unlimited amount of vacation time. If you’re a working mother, it seems like other parents are spending a lot of time pool-side while you feel...
Invisible Labor
The gender pay gap is a hot topic. We hear political pundits, talking heads on the news, and - if we’re lucky - some of our own lawmakers talk about it with enthusiasm and regularity. According to a report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, women in...
Beyond Burnout
We talk at length in these blog posts about burnout, stress, and checking in with yourself amid the million different things in need of your attention. We often forget to call that what it is: caring for your mental health. May is “Mental Health Awareness Month,” and...
Starting a New Conversation
I was recently discussing the topic of conversation salons with a friend, and I jokingly referred to them as “networking for people who hate networking.” I’ll admit, I’ve found myself squarely in the middle of that category before, and I’d wager to guess many of you...
