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Balance
Chrysula Winegar, MSc WHEN YOU WAKE UP A MOTHER Mother, work life flexibility advocate, social media obsessive and entrepreneur, Chrysula blogs at Work.Life.Balance. while agitating for work policy reform at the Huffington Post, Moms Rising, and other media venues. Chrysula also champions global development issues for mothers and children at her mother activism blog, When You Wake Up a Mother. Chrysula weaves her convictions, past corporate experience with giants like Ernst & Young, Estee Lauder, NatWest UK and 20 years as a marketer and...
read moreRunning Red Lights
Is it just me or does it seem like more and more people are running red lights these days? Just today I saw FOUR people run directly through a red light. Sure, it was on the tail end of a yellow (aren’t they all?) but it was a clear violation, not to mention safety hazard! What’s up with that? I think there’s an interesting parallel to our lives here. People have never been so “busy” and so “scheduled” and so on-the-go as in today’s world. I am equally as guilty… I ate lunch the other day while driving from one clients...
read moreThe Daily Thrive Dares Women to Dream with Author, Investor Whitney Johnson
Every other month we host a lively, interactive Ten Buck Talk open to everyone. You’ll meet experts as well as members of the Daily Thrive community, and get a sense of the diverse, witty and accomplished women we hang out with. We gather experts in their fields–from venture capitalists to feminists to authors to software developers–to a tele-conversation for learning and breaking new ground. Not a talking-head lecture, but robust, interactive discussions that put you head-to-head with your career and leadership goals. The $10 part? Part...
read moreWork Life Balance Expert Chrysula Winegar Advocates for “Laying Claim to Your Own Life”
Like all women, Chrysula Winegar wears more than a few hats. She’s a wife. A mother. A business woman. A writer. An advocate. A coach. And she advocates a deep look at work-life balance to understand how our roles come together to live a life of rich meaning and contribution. As the Daily Thrive Balance Expert, she believes: “Balance has become synonymous with something much richer and deeper than two sides of a see-sawing scale. We are searching for a sense of peace, a sense of purpose. Not just searching, but hungering. We want...
read moreEscaping the Money Fog with Daily Thrive Expert Mikelann Valterra
Mikelann Valterra, Money Therapy Expert at The Daily Thrive, says she’s one of those rare birds whose 50-50 left brain-right brain split makes her an ideal fit for her profession as a money coach. “There’s the linear, skill side and the non-linear emotional side,” says Valterra. “This comes into play in helping women establish a Personal Financial Practice. We take a look at spending and earning and then move into a more conscious way of planning.” Always Plan, Never Budget Valterra is quick to point out that she loathes the word...
read moreDaily Thrive Nourishment Expert Maria Schonder Composts Dieting
Maria Schonder, Nourishment Expert in The Daily Thrive, is a certified natural chef and culinary consultant with a master’s in health and nutrition education who is passionate about “simplifying food.” “Our food choices have become increasingly confusing to navigate,” says Schonder, owner of Harmony Nutrition. “We women can all name 20 different diets off the top of our heads, many of which we’ve tried. In my opinion, it has gotten out of control and overwhelming and we need to compost the word diet from our vocabulary and...
read moreProductivity Expert Sara Caputo Simplifies to the Simplest of Simple
Sara Caputo is a dynamic productivity coach, consultant, and trainer, and owner of Radiant Organizing. Her graduate studies in Organizational Psychology, combined with her diverse experience in group process facilitation, project management, and healthcare, enable her to understand the challenges that disorganization provokes in clients’ professional and personal lives. As the Productivity Expert at The Daily Thrive, Caputo’s approach is facilitative and intuitive. At the heart of her work, Caputo says she focuses on “helping people...
read moreSatisfying Craving for Balance and Parity is Ground Zero for Women
Lisa Gates is a negotiation consultant, trainer and coach whose passion for building things provided the inspiration for The Daily Thrive, as well as She Negotiates Consulting and Training. While working with entrepreneurs and high achieving careerists, Gates began to notice a pattern among her clients. These talented, professional women were making quick work of setting goals and designing strategic plans for implementing those goals. But when it came to negotiating–whether it was with a family member, a senior partner, a vendor, a...
read moreMoney Therapy
Mikelann Valterra, MA THE SEATTLE MONEY COACH As a personal finance coach, Certified Financial Recovery counselor, trainer and author, Mikelann Valterra MA, works with many amazing professional women ontheir relationship to money. Her clients often feel as if money is their “final frontier”– while they’ve done work on many areas of their lives, money remains frustrating and confusing. In private practice for over 15 years, Mikelann is also on the faculty of the Financial Recovery Counseling Institute where she trains...
read moreNourishment
Maria Schonder, MS HARMONY NUTRITION Maria joins the Daily Thrive as our Nourishment expert. Committed to excellence and developing programs that are inspiring, effective, and invigorating, Maria is affectionately known as the “vegetable whisperer.” She understands that whole-body nourishment is about more than just food–it is a journey of self-exploration. Maria approaches food, and people, with love, enthusiasm and a sincere desire to help people discover which foods maximize their own health, and enjoyment, of life. As...
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