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Break Out Of Your Slump And Back Into Productivity (With Tips From Our Mentors!)

Feb 18 2019 // No matter how energizing our lives–at home or at work–productivity slumps happen. Check out these tips from our mentors to help us get our mojo back! Make sure and take a creative break! When I’m…

Meet Building Brave: Where Women Power-Up

Feb 14 2019 // When professional women need advice we often turn to friends and peers, but those supports don’t necessarily possess expertise crucial to the moment. Guidance from experienced mentors, however, can provide a singularly valuable professional development…

Building Brave CEO Mary Burke’s Three Steps to be Brave

Feb 11 2019 // TRUSTED ADVICE FROM EXPERIENCED LEADERS BUILDING BRAVE CEO MARY BURKE: THREE STEPS TO BE BRAVE I have a three step process I go through everyday to push through the self-doubts, imperfections and disappointments: SET MY…

Strengths Coach Kim Svoboda: Your Strength Set is 1 in 33 Million

Feb 11 2019 // TRUSTED ADVICE FROM EXPERIENCED LEADERS ASPIRATION CATALYST FOUNDER AND COACH KIM SVOBODA: YOUR STRENGTH SET IS 1 IN 33 MILLION During my corporate career, I was building towards Aspiration Catalyst. I was really lucky that…

Grow. Develop. Lead. “Failing Up” with Mary Burke

Jan 31 2019 // No one enjoys failure, but sometimes failure can bring us places we never thought possible. Like the expression “falling up” the stairs, we can fail up too. Running for governor of Wisconsin and losing was…

Meet Our Featured Women of Color Mentors

Jan 15 2019 // Building Brave’s new Mobile Mentoring App (Download now!) connects women directly to experienced, diverse female mentors. Mentoring Circles are built around topics like Career Growth, Leadership, Effective Communication, Managing People, Women in STEM, Women of…

Meet Our Featured Working Moms Mentors

Jan 11 2019 // Building Brave’s new mobile mentoring app (coming January 2019) will connect women directly to experienced, diverse female mentors. Mentoring Circles are built around topics like Career Growth, Leadership, Effective Communication, Managing People, Women in STEM,…

Careers and Kids: Wins, Woes (and Zero “Mom Wars”)

Jan 09 2019 // When you hear the words “careers” and “kids,” the phrase “Mommy Wars” often follows. The media perpetuates this myth of the working mom versus the “stay-at-home” mom, while in reality the vast majority of moms…

Meet Our Featured Career & Leadership Mentors

Jan 07 2019 // Building Brave’s new mobile mentoring app (coming January 2019) will connect women directly to experienced, diverse female mentors. Mentoring Circles are built around topics like Career Growth, Leadership, Effective Communication, Managing People, Women in STEM,…

Meet Our Featured Managing People Mentors

Jan 03 2019 // Building Brave’s new Mobile Mentoring App (coming January 2019) will connect women directly to experienced, diverse female mentors. Mentoring Circles are built around topics like Career Growth, Leadership, Effective Communication, Managing People, Women in STEM,…

Athlete & Author Rebecca Rusch: “It’s about racing yourself”

Dec 19 2018 // TRUSTED ADVICE FROM EXPERIENCED LEADERS WORLD CHAMPION ATHLETE AND AUTHOR REBECCA RUSCH: “IT’S ABOUT RACING YOURSELF” It’s taken 40 plus years for me to learn the lesson that it’s about racing yourself. I’ve had lots…

Boost Your Cred with a Boss or Client: Learn Constructive Responses to Criticism

Dec 19 2018 // We feel unstoppable when we succeed. Criticism, however, can stop us in our tracks. We hear about “constructive criticism,” but we hear less about constructive responses to that criticism, beyond the evergreen (and ever-challenging) “don’t…

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