No one finds it comfortable, but you’re going to have to do it anyway. These tips will help. Negotiating a raise seems scary, but with the right approach, preparation, and confidence, you can significantly improve your chances of getting what you want. Here’s step-by-step process to help you navigate the delicate art of negotiating a…
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Thoughts On Being a Girl Boss
What does it mean and is it really your dream? Girl Boss. Mom Boss. These words have been used in recent years to describe a woman who can run her business to big success, despite being a woman – or even a mom. People use these expressions as a positive ideal, something to strive for. …
Should You Stay or Leave Your Job?
If that’s the question you ask yourself everyday, this might be a different perspective. If you are reading this, chances are you’re not that thrilled with your current job. (If your job is deeply satisfying don’t take it for granted!) Whether it’s the actual work or your relationships with your boss and coworkers, my guess…
11 Tips for Successful Zoom Meetings
Zoom meetings have become the new normal form of communication, but do you know the best way to set one up? For work, school or fun, we’ve all been Zooming the days away. But chances are we’re not always doing it the best way. So we called on a Zoom expert (ok, Esti’s brother) to…
How to Use Podcasts to Grow Your Business
Feel like you don’t have more time to learn how to grow your business? Podcasts can be the answer. I am the queen of podcasts! And I’ll tell you why. Podcasts are filled with great information. It’s a great way to learn and be productive while doing other tasks in your life. I’m folding laundry,…
Our Best Tips for Working From Home
You may not know this, but the entire Between Carpools operation is run from our homes. Most of our other work is from home, too. So between the five of us, we’ve accumulated quite a bit of experience being a WAHM. We had a conversation where we put together some of our best tips and…
4 Ways a Working Mom Can Create Work-Life Balance
There are so many people who want us at once. Things seem crazy and hectic. So how does a working mom find balance? A working mom can be pulled in so many directions, and it’s not really possible to be everywhere at once and to be everything to everyone at once. So how to we…
How She Does It: Between Carpools Chats with Mica Soffer, Publisher of COLLive.com
Q: First, can you tell us a little bit about your “work-life” and your “home life.” At work, I’m the publisher and editor of COLlive.com, a Jewish media outlet that provides news of the Chabad community worldwide, as well as news of interest to the Orthodox Jewish community. More than a news source, it has…
Go Get ‘Em: Between Carpools Chats with Rivka Ravitz, the Chief of Staff to the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin
Go Get ‘Em is A Series of Conversations with Inspiring Entrepreneurial Jewish Women. And while Rivka Ravitz isn’t a business owner, she’s a highly accomplished woman with an incredible amount of energy who has managed to balance a political career with raising a large family. Q: First, can you tell us a little bit about…
How She Does It: Between Carpools Chats with The Anelis Group’s Elisheva Perlman
Q: First, can you tell us a little bit about your “work-life” and your “home life.” Ah. I wish the AND actually existed. Currently, the two are very much interwoven where I try to be a mommy first and an entrepreneur second. But I can’t say the two don’t cross over into one another…while cooking…
