“We use the title administrative assistant so liberally that it almost diminishes the responsibilities of true administrative assistants. I advocate taking a deeper dive into how you assign these titles and making sure they are truly appropriate for the responsibilities that you are assigning to yo…
“You shouldn’t strive to be a computer, you should strive to be your best; the notion that anyone’s best isn’t enough is a shame because that is literally all we can do”
“It’s very gratifying to see that these books are helping to bridge the literacy gap and that the team is able to get books into the hands of children who don’t have any; they want to read, to experience being a kid, seeing that it’s really theirs, there’s nothing that can replace that.”
"At some point you cannot physically do everything that is on your list, I had to delegate to trustworthy individuals because I couldn’t possibly do every single task myself; there just aren’t enough hours in the day"
"It’s good to take a pause and really think about what is going on for me, how do I want it to be, why is it not going quite how I would want it to be, why am I having these feelings about this job that maybe in the past it was all kind of fine, but now has all these different things going on; star…
“Everybody has that filter, ‘I work, you don’t, I have kids you don’t’ whatever it is, it’s important that we allow those moments to let people in; but it’s hard and you have to be vulnerable and put yourself out there but when it works and clicks you think, yes, this is how it’s supposed to be”
“I want to make sure that the people that I place and make matches for are going to be successful and are going to be happy and that it works for all involved”
“I never wanted another woman to feel alone, or to feel shame about her body or to go through experiences alone in the way I went through experiences; if I could just touch a few women’s lives, to me it was all worth it, I had to tell my story.”
“Put in the hard work now; go to work, build your stamina and eventually when things line up for you, life will be so much better and you’ll be able to enjoy your experiences more”
“It is our inclination to network with those that look like us, however if we make a conscious effort to diversify our networks, we will in turn be taking small steps to becoming diversity and inclusion champions"
“Claiming the lead means moving into a more positive mindset and not feeling victim to circumstance; to getting back in the driver’s seat and claiming control of your destiny and your life”
"I wanted to write a book about my life experience which is nothing like those ridiculous stereotypes that you see on t.v. and in the movies; it’s about women lifting each other up not tearing each other down"
