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.”

Are you a visionary hitting a wall? 

If you feel stretched thin and overwhelmed by the weight of trying to break into the next phase of growth, you can feel like a failure. So often, as women, we assume that if things feel chaotic or heavy and our work isn’t producing results, there must be something wrong with us. 

What if you’re just wearing too many hats? The right support can allow your vision to move forward. 

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?

Are finances on your 2026 New Year’s Resolution list? Regardless of your goal or resolution, you will need to track your finances to know where you are now, monitor progress, and measure success. Tracking finances can be difficult, time-consuming, and boring, but there are some ways to make it less burdensome. 

Newman was born in 1801 in London and died in 1890 in Philadelphia. Born into the Anglican faith, Newman was a brilliant student and became an Anglican priest.

However, while in Italy, he had been introduced to Catholicism and he “became increasingly convinced that the Church of Rome, the Catholic Church, was the church nearest to the spirit of early Christianity.”