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How I Got into Marketing without a Marketing Degree
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about marketing? Is it the hundreds of ads that flood your Instagram feed every week? Or the slick branding on an oat milk carton that convinces you to switch over to plant-based milk? Or the millions of influencers in…
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How to Glow Up in 12 Months
Can you believe it? We’re less than 3 months away from 2024 (**scream-cry-laugh). A year seems to fly by when you get older, but you can come out of it feeling like a different person if you’ve been continuously working on yourself. Hardships bleed into gratitude as you reflect on…
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More Personal Finance Things I Wish I Knew Sooner
Disclaimer: I am very aware that everyone has their own experience and is subjected to their own opinion about this subject. Please do not take this as financial advice as I am not a financial expert. All my blogs are based on personal experience. A big part of maturing is…
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Why Going Silent Mode Can Be the Best Thing to Happen to Your Career
Usually, people spend too much time talking about what they’re going to do, and not enough time doing it. Isn’t it funny that it’s the skills you often excel at, you tend to advertise the least? It has to do with uncertainty. The less certain we feel about a subject,…
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How to Stop Being a Yes Girl – 4 Relationship Things You Need to Stop Doing
Reversing my tendency to say yes to everyone and every opportunity that flew my way has been a work in progress. I boil this down to low self-esteem. Now, most people have always commented that I looked vibrantly confident. Maybe it was the way I dressed, spoke, walked with my…
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10 Bulletproof Ways You Can Avoid Burnout (with Lauren Barri)
The term “burnout” is a pretty recent phenomenon and it refers to “ a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed (WHO, 2019).” Burnout can manifest in three “dimensions” according to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Often the symptoms of burnout are…
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How Practicing Detachment Can Save Your Work Life
Dear Diary, Today was a tough day at work. On the day-to-day, my role in the workplace is not just subjected to hard skills like copywriting and marketing analytics. A lot of my work is also handling and mediating people’s emotions. I don’t when or how I adopted this role,…
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Radical Shifts: Your Life Can Really Change in a Year
Your reality depends on your perception. -NP I’ve always hated transitions. From grade 3 to 4 (the start of the grading system), I got a sea of Cs and minuses. From grade 7 to 8 (elementary to high school), I landed in the hospital…twice. From grade 12 to freshman…
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Four Tips on Living I Learned from Death
Nothing in life will prepare you for death. To the surprise of yourself, and those around you, the traffic lights don’t come to a halt, and people will keep strolling down the street to head to work the next day. The world moves on and the sun shines bright, even…
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Personal Finances: What They Didn’t Tell You in School
The word trauma that is passed around in self-help circles these days mainly covers relationship stemmed trauma— family, friendships, and significant others. They never really talk about a type of trauma that’s actually very prevalent, even in higher-income cities (actually more likely in higher-income per capita cities). Financial trauma, in…
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