Written by melanie.marconiJanuary 10, 2026 tart 2026 strong at VIDA Coworking’s newly updated fitness studio! Our Portland coworking space now features a new Peloton Treadmill, Peloton Bike, free weights, and more. Plus, get weekly workout routines designed to fit into your busy workday. Discover how VIDA makes wellness and productivity possible in one beautiful space.
Written by melanie.marconiFebruary 14, 2025 There are so many ways to Make Life/Work, but for me, one has always been getting in or near water – and the hotter the better! So I am a big fan of Hot Springs, hot tubs, saunas and steam rooms, and we do have a great selection of them
Written by melanie.marconiSeptember 29, 2020 These stress-relief activities can help get you through 2020 and into 2021. It’s no secret 2020 has been hard. The pandemic. Summer in quarantine. A rocky start to online learning. Extreme weather. Racial injustice. A critical election… Even the most resilient among us find it to be…a lot. That’s why it’s critical to
Written by melanie.marconiJune 21, 2020 The past several months have been many things. Strange. Frightening. Isolating. Reflective. Perspective-inducing. A stark reminder of the fundamental inequities and deficiencies that underpin our world. And a serious learning experience. Whoever would have imagined six months ago that we’d all have become armchair epidemiologists, anxiously poring over the dense
Written by melanie.marconiApril 19, 2020 Since childhood, I have been a big reader. I still read each night before I go to bed. Nonfiction is my favorite jam, and months ago, when the world was normal, my best friend recommended that I check out Gabrielle Bernstein’s new book, Super Attractor. Also a big fan of
Written by melanie.marconiJuly 31, 2019 In 2017, there were 57.3 million freelancers in the United States—a whopping 36% of the workforce. If that trajectory continues, more than half of the American workforce will be freelancers by 2027. With numbers like that, the proliferation of tech tools designed to make freelance workers’ lives easier, more efficient,
Written by melanie.marconiJuly 25, 2019 Life is demanding. Between work, children, partners, aging parents, and the endless responsibilities of daily life, we know that many women find the easiest thing to put on the backburner is themselves. We also know that’s not just a temporary solution, it’s a self-defeating one. Backburnered pots boil over, and
Written by melanie.marconiJune 10, 2019 One of the most valuable skills for any entrepreneur (or, who are we kidding, human being) is the ability to ask for help. There’s a hard limit to what we can accomplish alone, and none of us are good at everything. But asking for help can be uncomfortable, especially if
Written by melanie.marconiJune 3, 2019 Modern life is exhilarating and full of possibilities, but it can also be downright stressful. When lengthy to-do lists, client meetings, or the kids’ soccer schedules get you down, try these speedy science-backed tactics for stressing less and boosting happiness. Sing your favorite song It turns out that Snow White
Written by melanie.marconiApril 24, 2019 Behind every successful woman is an organized to-do list – or at least that’s how the story goes. Creatives have developed countless apps, bullet journals, schedulers, and cloud-linked notebooks to free us from from seas of post-it notes, and to make conquering all of those tasks just a little bit