relationships

Embarrassment and the Ex: Dealing with the Accidental Encounter

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Hello Career Girls! I’m Lauren. Nice to meet you all. I know we don’t know each other yet, so I though I’d go ahead and let you get to know me the best way I know how- by completely embarrassing myself. A month or so back, I had a falling out with a guy I [...]

January 26, 2012 18 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

5 Tips to Improve Your Relationship with Your Business Partner

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Today’s post is by Maureen Page. Relationships with your business partner can be difficult. Or perhaps I should have started with “relationships with your spouse can be difficult.” Either relationship can prove to be challenging and when you combine them into one relationship the challenge can increase dramatically. Yet in many ways, the relationship you [...]

January 26, 2011 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Looking for Love? Let Blogging Open the Door to Romance

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A note from Nicole: To be quite frank with you, I almost didn’t accept the following guest post.  I read the title and the first few paragraphs and thought the concept was hokey. I rarely reject guest posts. But then I reminded myself of how many great people and friends I’ve met through this very [...]

October 14, 2010 6 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Fabulous Personalized Wedding Illustrations, Fabulous Career Story!

By, Nicole Crimaldi Thanks to Twitter, I found out about a very cool company called Champagne Promises. Champagne Promises creates custom illustrated wedding invitations, thank you notes, place cards, etc. all designed to represent you and your unique and sassy personality! All creations are designed by Astrid Mueller, the founder of Champagne Promises. Astrid’s products [...]

September 22, 2009 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Sex and The City Effect

After a 3 month stint in the far west suburbs, I’m all moved back into my fabulous Chicago apartment. The views from my apartment are awesome, my commute to work is about 10 minutes vs. 90 minutes, and my friends are close by again. I’m glad to be back, but I can already feel the [...]

June 4, 2009 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Why is Online Dating Still a Taboo??

It’s 2009. We are all on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We find our apartments online, our jobs online, and we shop online. We order food online, we keep in touch with friends and family who live far away online, and we look for pets online.  So why is it “weird” to shop for a significant other [...]

May 21, 2009 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Define Your Personal Branding Trademarks.

Today as I walked to work this morning, I felt very “Nicole,” which ultimately made me excited to take on the day.  I’m attending a young leaders of Chicago event with my mentor tonight, and I want to reflect my personal brand to each person I meet.  I’m wearing a fabulous knee-length suit coat from Nordstrom in [...]

May 14, 2009 8 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

Keep it Simple When it Comes to Happiness.

The last few weeks of my life have been utterly chaotic as far as my personal life goes. As things have started to settle down, I’ve had a chance to catch my breath and think about the decisions I’ve made, lessons I’ve learned and what I could share with other women about my experience. I [...]

March 5, 2009 0 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

The Pinwheel Girl

I had the honor of meeting Kendra Kett at a Ladies Who Launch workshop I attended about a month ago and knew immediately that I wanted to feature her in a Ms. Career Girl post. Even before I got the chance to speak with Kendra one-on-one, I was intrigued by her. Kendra is the author [...]

February 26, 2009 1 comment CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →

How Technology Changed Dating

I had a great lunch with John Head yesterday in which we somehow got on the subject of dating and technology. The topic came up after we discussed John’s experience with interviewing, hiring and firing Gen Y’ers who all seemed to have huge entitlement issues. John had some funny stories about Gen Y’ers. My favorite [...]

February 11, 2009 2 comments CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE →