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Self Care Matters For First Gen Entrepreneurs
Introduction You can’t give what you don’t have, if you don’t take care of yourself first, there will be nothing left to give. The most successful entrepreneurs are those who are constantly working on themselves and their personal development through Self Care. They...
When Will You Ever Have FUN?
The Problem You have a million things to do this week. You have a million things to do next week. When will you ever have fun? You're exhausted from being on-call 24/7 for your employees at work. You've hardly had enough time to breathe, let alone think about what's...
Getting Over the Superwoman Syndrome
Did you know that "Superwoman Syndrome" is a real thing? Do you take pride in juggling work, family, and personal life? The temptation is to overwork in order to be an ideal boss, an ideal mother, or just to keep everything together. As a first-generation...
3 Essentials for Successful First Gen Entrepreneurs
Introduction Growing up as a First-Generation Woman pushes you to focus on school, then college, then career—because of how important having a career is, an everyday routine is built around getting a degree so you can be 'employable' and earn enough money to take care...
How Stress Can Get on Your Nerves! And What To Do About it.
As long as stress applies pressure to you, your stress response system will stay activated. The signals get louder, stronger and other organs get recruited in an attempt to grab your attention to stop the stress. Self care for women of color.
Self Care is Crucial to Your Wellbeing.
Who can relate to this? Self Care in Immigrant and African American cultures is seen as selfish because the family and social dynamics of our cultures is that of interdependence. 📚 There are historical reasons for this. However in this time space, our brains, bodies,...
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome It's quite common for First Generation Womxn to experience Imposter syndrome. Growing up, pressure was used to extract greatness out of us, at the expense of our well being and sense of "good-enoughness". So we continuously strive to "be...
Struggling with balancing life in this new normal? Here are some tips.
Current events have us rethinking what work/life balance is. Now that our routines look a lot different, it is also a good time to make some adjustments to ensure that we are still practicing self-care. Stop multitasking (I’m serious. Stop it!)....