Written by melanie.marconiDecember 26, 2018 We’ve always felt like the end of the year inspires a special mix of nostalgia and anticipation, but this year, we’re definitely skewing towards the anticipation end of that spectrum. Over the last several months, we’ve been busy turning our vision for the perfect work and life community into reality.
Written by melanie.marconiDecember 19, 2018 We all know the old proverb that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. If you’re reading this, you’ve avoided the first one for now, but, the second one is imminent. Think of the end of the year like the starting bell at the Kentucky Derby, only instead
Written by melanie.marconiDecember 14, 2018 Between shopping for gifts, making appearances at a dozen different social gatherings, and carving out the time to not just find those Christmas lights but remember how the heck you hung them last year, it’s a miracle any work gets done during the holiday season at all. It doesn’t have
Written by melanie.marconiNovember 29, 2018 The start of the workday is so often a muddle. There are lunches to pack, kids to drop off, emails to read, coffee to brew, lists to check, voicemails to return, and—best case scenario—sweaty workout clothes to struggle out of in your office bathroom before rolling into your first meeting
Written by melanie.marconiNovember 14, 2018 It feels great to be good at something. Combine the one-two punch of personal satisfaction and the external validation of others, and it’s easy to see why we tend to stick to the things we do best, especially if that’s also how the mortgage gets paid. So what’s the point
Written by melanie.marconiNovember 7, 2018 Money and financial coach Emily Gowen’s mission is a personal one. After overcoming significant student and credit card debt in her late 20s, she started looking for professional advice on optimizing her new savings, only to find that she didn’t yet have enough wealth to invest in a financial advisor.
Written by melanie.marconiOctober 31, 2018 When your life involves a lot of hats, everyday life can start to resemble hat hair: Messy. More hours in the day could go a long way in smoothing out your metaphorical tresses, but tacking on an extra hour to every box on the calendar remains irritatingly outside the realities
Written by melanie.marconiOctober 31, 2018 Welcome to the first Vlog post of the Make Life/Work Blog! Rather than write a synopsis of three books that I read this month, I thought that instead I would share it with you via video. “As a single mom and a CEO of my own household and CEO of my
Written by melanie.marconiOctober 31, 2018 Welcome to the first Vlog post of the Make Life/Work Blog! Rather than write a synopsis of three books that I read this month, I thought that instead I would share it with you via video. “As a single mom and a CEO of my own household and CEO of my
Written by melanie.marconiOctober 17, 2018 Jen Luecht is the co-founder of Narrative Northwest, a boutique communications agency based in Portland, Oregon. After working in traditional agencies, she decided to take the plunge and launch a new kind of agency with two other quirky, influential, intuitive women. Together, they help businesses and nonprofits in the food