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POWER PLAYS for WOMEN

Hot Mommas Project Covid 19 Resources for Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders

We’ve curated some of our favorite resources. This list is frequently updated. UPDATE A Hot Mommas Project  free mini course is available here (you’ll sign in for a free Teachable account) ONGOING Daily webinars from Multifunding Loan Advisors NAWBO webinars.     Small Business Financing & Aid Small Business Loan & Financial Assistance Programs – Federal Summaries (don’t forget to review unemployment information in addition to new loan / grant programs.) Senate Committee on Small Business… Read More »Hot Mommas Project Covid 19 Resources for Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders

#19 Build Self-Efficacy, the Confidence That Leads to Success

Here is how you build confidence. The type of confidence that counts. Confidence equation in two minutes: Background. The Hot Mommas Project women’s leadership research initiative with the partnership of the George Washington School of Business Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence has adapted and tested elements of famed social psychologist Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy principles to arrive at “The Confidence Equation.”  Tests have taken place with women aged 18-55 starting in 2009.… Read More »#19 Build Self-Efficacy, the Confidence That Leads to Success

#18: PASSION – Do What you Love

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Do you remember your career dreams of yesteryear, and then – kind of this halting screeching break sound like in a movie? And here you are… x (xx?) years later, in a cubicle, corner office, home office – NOT living the dream? I was forced to confront this reality when reading friend, coach, and Hot Mommas Project founding author Kathy Caprino’s piece on the topic in Forbes.

#17b: BE FINANCIALLY LITERATE – Rich Sister, Poor Sister – 10 Tips to Save Time and Money

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By @ChiefHotMomma. This is part of the Power Plays series. Continued from #17a. Now let’s talk about money.  Very much like the illustrative tale of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, this is the tale of “Rich Sister, Poor Sister.” In this scenario, the sisters make the SAME amount of money each year, they just spend it differently. 6. Setting Limits. Just as with time management in Part I, setting limits around spending is… Read More »#17b: BE FINANCIALLY LITERATE – Rich Sister, Poor Sister – 10 Tips to Save Time and Money

#17a: WORK SMART – 10 Tips to Save Time and Money

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By @ChiefHotMomma. This is part of the Power Plays series. Today I spoke at the amazing Year Up, a highly-selective program which “empowers urban talent to reach their potential” through an intensive technical skills training program. I told the group I’d put together some materials to follow up my talk, and this post is part of that. It was originally posted on a finance blog. What does Year Up – a… Read More »#17a: WORK SMART – 10 Tips to Save Time and Money

#15b LIVE YOUR VALUES: Your Work Life Solution: Values-Based Balance

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When Harvard Business School Professor Howard Stevenson almost died, he woke up to the real meaning of work life balance: It’s about priorities. That is: What is most important to you.

Balancing a bunch of things and expecting A+ results in all of them is a recipie for disaster. Yet, many of us try to do that on a daily basis.

#15a: DELEGATE – Your Work Life Solution

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Businesses often prepare for worst case scenarios. What if the CEO gets hit by a bus?…How SEVERE an analogy does it take for you to “let go” and pass off responsibility? Enter: The “If I Died” List. Take Xandra, for example. There Xandra sat …in her car.. in the parking lot…outside the hospital. “I’m in labor,” she texted from her Blackberry: Still wired, still connected. Xandra is still alive and well today, but…really people…

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