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What Young Workers Need To Know About New Advisory On Social Media Risks

Published in Forbes

Can A Bad Economy Make A Quarter-Life Crisis Worse?

Published in Forbes

3 Ways To Improve Your Mental Health This Summer If You’re Thinking About Quitting Your Job

Published in Forbes

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7 Signs Someone Doesn’t Love You Anymore

Featured in Seventeen

Why some members of Gen Z are experiencing an early life crisis

Featured on NPR

Barbara Corcoran’s essential morning routine, and what she ‘never’ does to be as productive as possible

Featured on CNBC

Latest articles

The One Superpower You Need to Develop to be Successful in the New Hybrid Workplace

There’s never a moment in life more lonely than when you’re at home and you’ve had a very difficult meeting with your manager, or you’ve just finished a presentation you’ve been working on for weeks, and you press that blue “leave” button on Zoom. Suddenly, you’re...

The Smartest Business Decision Your Organization Can Make in 2023

This may sound counterintuitive, but helping your employees improve their mental health could be one of the smartest business decisions your organization makes this year. Poor mental health costs organizations and employers a lot of money. It’s estimated that...

Can A Bad Economy Make A Quarter-Life Crisis Worse?

While it’s never fun or easy to go through a crisis, if you allow yourself to sit with the discomfort of facing the changes you need to make, it can change your life for the better. A quarter-life crisis is a period of uncertainty in which a young person starts to...

3 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health This Summer If You’re Thinking About Quitting Your Job

Do you remember that feeling when you were in school as May became June? The days got longer and longer, the weather got hotter and hotter, and everyone started to count the days until summer break. There was this feeling in the air that anything was possible, and you...

The Key To Happiness During “The Big Stay” Is Resilience

First, it was “The Great Resignation,” then it was “Quiet Quitting,” and now it’s “The Big Stay.” While it may seem employees are all over the place these days with what they want, they’re really reacting to a turbulent trauma-filled three years. At this stage, it...

A Nighttime Routine To Help You Lessen Anxiety About Going To Work

It can be a vicious cycle. Work makes you anxious, and all day long, all you do is dream of getting home and getting into bed and relaxing. The workday is finally done, you log off, but you can’t relax. You crawl into bed, but you still can’t relax. You want to pull...