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Author: Christopher Palma

How To Be More Productive: Strategies For Maximizing Your Efficiency

Isn’t it ironic that we are often reminded best of how precious our time is when we manage it the worst? Like when you’ve worked long days for months, but your quarterly presentation still isn’t ready for tomorrow’s meeting. Or you missed your child’s final championship game due to scheduling

5 Latina Changemakers Who Are Making a Difference

What does it mean to be a changemaker? It means stepping up to bat for what you believe in. It’s the willingness to fill leadership roles, promising to advocate for and shedding light on the unrepresented and undervalued. These people are innovators, groundbreakers and resistors. They’re not afraid of change

Get Sparked With Jonathan Fields’ Sparketype Assessment

When Jonathan Fields was working as a lawyer in one of the biggest law firms in the country, enduring long hours and massive amounts of stress, he became an unexpected witness in one of the most important trials of his life. After being hospitalized when his immune system shut down

The Business of Birth: Anna Rodney Discusses Her Successful Doula Agency

Anna Rodney never set out to start a doula agency. It became a necessity when her one-woman birthworker operation attracted more inquiries than she could accommodate. Today, Chicago Family Doulas is one of the largest doula agencies in the country and has an education branch called Birth & Baby University,

The New Reality of College Savings for Parents and Students

Student loan borrowers have been on a financial roller coaster over the past two years as courts have batted around the Biden’s administration’s forgiveness plans. Most recently, on Sept. 5, Chief U.S. District Judge J. Randal Hall issued a temporary restraining order against the president’s second effort to cancel debt, leaving

Monarch Money – The Best Thing Since Mint

After several years of procrastination, I recently tried getting onto Intuit’s Mint app to track my income and expenses. However, I realized that Mint shut down its service earlier this year and had to find an alternative. Monarch Money featured prominently during my search, so I had to sign up

Setting Boundaries At Work: Empowering Your Professional Journey

We might face moments in our careers where our work-life balance gets overlooked or becomes difficult to maintain. Work emails trickle in after hours. Meetings run through lunch breaks. The lines between work and personal time blur, leaving us drained and lacking motivation. But setting boundaries at work can change