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. 

As Catholic women, we often meet Mary not just in prayer, but in the quiet moments of our work — when a project feels impossible, when wisdom is needed in a meeting, or when we must speak truth with grace.

December often brings pressure to close deals, hit revenue targets, and plan for a bigger year ahead. But before we rush into 2026, the Church invites us to pause and review the year not by our balance sheets but by God’s presence in our lives.

Joy has an elusive quality about it. Intuitively, we know that there is more to joy than a happy moment in time, but we find it difficult to explain and even more difficult to attain. 

As Catholic women in business, we are called not just to achieve but to anoint—to bring grace, truth, and presence into the marketplace. We are not just strategists. We are stewards. We are not just leaders. We are light bearers.