For many Catholic women, the question of work isn’t just about a job. It’s about vocation, stewardship, and how to faithfully balance a profession with family life and the needs of those entrusted to us.

Learn how a conversation between friends and sisters-in-law sparked a new business idea: a sleek, professional, Catholic daily planner.

In All the Cool Girls Get Fired, authors Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neil offer an honest discussion on being laid off and coming back stronger. Along with actionable steps, they share other well-known women’s firing experiences in various industries, highlighting that being laid off – fired – is a shared experience that can become a setup for the next chapter in your professional life. 

We live in a world that celebrates speed:  fast growth, instant results, quick decisions. But prudence slows us down, not to paralyze us, but to make sure we’re acting with wisdom rather than by impulse. Aquinas reminds us that prudence isn’t just about caution; it’s about discernment. He even says that “prudence implies a right ordering of reason toward action.”

As a woman in business, it’s easy to know that professional development is important, but hard to make the time to think through the options, much less register and attend. How do you know that time will be well spent and fruitful?

Before your interview, take time to prepare three to five questions for your interviewer. Coming prepared with questions shows that you care about the position and are taking the process seriously. These questions can be about the position, the company, the team, or about your interviewer.