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The Power of Trying Something New: What Writing Fiction is Teaching Me About Myself

by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 11, 2025 | creativity, Women Empowerment

A few weeks ago, I did something that felt both thrilling and terrifying: I sat down to write fiction for the first time. For most of my career, I’ve been firmly rooted in nonfiction. I’ve written books, articles, newsletters, and research-based thought leadership. My...

Should I Stay or Should I Go? My Story Wrestling with Career Crossroads

by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 3, 2025 | ambition, Office politics, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace

I’ll never forget sitting in my office late one night, staring at the glow of my computer screen, and realizing: I can’t keep doing this. I was exhausted.I was angry.And I was questioning whether this company where I had poured 8 years of my life, now under new...

Owning Her Ambition: Rebecca Bloom’s Fight for Women in Healthcare

by Bonnie Marcus | Aug 30, 2025 | ambition, Badass Women, leadership, Women Empowerment

Rebecca Bloom never set out to be a women’s health advocate. She didn’t have a master plan, a grand mission, or a childhood dream of changing healthcare. Instead, she evolved into it, shaped by the circumstances of her own life, her legal career, and her mother’s...

Sexual Harassment at Work post #MeToo? It’s still there and women are losing protection with the elimination of DEI.

by Bonnie Marcus | Aug 20, 2025 | MeToo, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace

Over the course of my corporate career, my stories of sexual harassment are too numerous to share. They span from overt sexual invitations to off color comments. In the beginning of my career especially, there wasn’t a day that I didn’t hear inappropriate remarks,...

How Self-Imposed Barriers Hold Us Back and How to Break Free

by Bonnie Marcus | Aug 6, 2025 | Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace

Lisa can be impatient and reactive. Her defensiveness prevents her from listening to others. As a result, she often triggers and turns people off, and in the workplace, she has been labeled as ‘difficult’ to work with. Supportive of her talent and career yet...

Outsmarting the Patriarchy at Work Without Shrinking or Selling out

by Bonnie Marcus | Jul 31, 2025 | Office politics, Women Empowerment, Women in the Workplace

My new boss was a prominent member of the boy’s club. A buddy of the CEO at my company, he was brought in by him to assume the role of SVP in the northeast. My first impression was hardly positive. We met in a noisy hotel bar at our first national conference together...

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The Power of Trying Something New: What Writing Fiction is Teaching Me About Myself

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Owning Her Ambition: Rebecca Bloom’s Fight for Women in Healthcare

Sexual Harassment at Work post #MeToo? It’s still there and women are losing protection with the elimination of DEI.

How Self-Imposed Barriers Hold Us Back and How to Break Free

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