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For ambitious material girls learning to channel their chaos into an intentional, fun, and fully lived life.

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5 Steps To Turning Your Expertise Into Career Leverage

How founders, professionals, and creatives can build a personal brand that creates opportunities (without becoming a full-time influencer)

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would younger you be obsessed with your life?

i have an mba and 11 income streams, spend the week with me <3

the smart girl's career crisis

my most impressive friends are panicking, but the way out is an asset you build yourself. (oh, and PEOPLE wrote about me this week)

Crying at the Ritz Paris

A man told me I didn't have what it takes. The seven shifts that made his opinion irrelevant.

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Trust Is The Only Currency Left

Cannes Lions was a movie. Here's what it signaled about substance, reach, and why we need more Smart people on the internet.

Summer of Substance!

being smart is the bare minimum. a lot of you are boring.

maybe you're the only one who's not taking you seriously

i finally decided i wanted more. the (paid) opportunities followed.

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Smart Girls Take Themselves (and their Fun) Seriously

4 assignments for the summer you stop settling for "good enough"

We paid $250k to learn how to build an empire. Here's how it's going...

nobody's career looks how they thought it would, wharton MBAs included.

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Smart Girls Don't Just Go Viral, They Go the Distance

4AM Skin's Sabrina Sade and Jade Beguelin on Clean Sheets, a $4M raise, 1,800 Target doors, and the five-year build the internet is about to call an overnight success.

Welcome To The Credibility Economy

welcome to the credibility economy

Smart Girls Build

A $43 billion wealth gap and why I'm done being passive about AI (even though I'm scared!!!)

Exactly How I Turned a Chaotic Quarter Into a Clear Strategy

How I used AI to audit my Q1, find the gaps, and build a Q2 plan to double my revenue

From Nurse to Billion-Dollar Founder | Monique Rodriguez (Mielle Organics)

Monique Rodriguez went from being a registered nurse to building Mielle Organics, an organic multicultural haircare brand that was acquired by Procter & Gamble in a 9-figure, non-controlling deal — making her the first Black woman to secure this ty...

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i was a hot mess this time last year. today i'm obsessed with my life.

keeping calm: the mindset shift I had to earn — and The Alignment Edit this Sunday

No one is coming to give you permission: how to activate your power

If you're tired of waiting for the right job, the right opportunity, or the right moment to finally feel powerful — this episode is your wake-up call.The truth is, power isn't something you build from scratch. It's not waiting for you at the next j...

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From leading LVMH to entrepreneurship: Pauline Brown on aesthetic intelligence, power, and walking away from millions

The business powerhouse on using taste as strategy, leaving private equity, and why the “is having a boyfriend embarrassing?” debate misses the point.

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The Power of Taste: A Masterclass in Power and Poise with Former LVMH Chairman Pauline Brown

Ladies, grab your notebooks, this episode is an absolute masterclass. This week’s guest is Pauline Brown, the former Chairman of LVMH North America, a board member who's worked with companies like Estée Lauder, Carlyle Group, and Neiman Marcus, and...

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I stopped being nice about what I want

february in full + what mean girls get right about power

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From good girl to powerful woman: An ambitious girl's guide to reclaiming your power

This episode is about power, and we're not apologizing for it. Ambitious women are taught to serve everyone else, be the good girl, and never admit they want to be powerful. But your power is already within you, and this episode is about how to sto...

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