The Main Agenda How To End The Year Strong As A Professional Woman In this economy, being a professional woman in business can seem as if this year flew by. Working non-stop...
The Main Agenda New Year’s Rituals And How They Bring Luck In The New Year Before the new year enters, there are certain traditions that many cultures practice. These rituals are intended to set...
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The Main Agenda How To Make Your Home Sacred Again After The Holidays Now that you’ve conquered the holidays, you can get things back in order at home. With all of the ripping and running, having family... By: Candis McDow · 21 hours ago
The Main Agenda How To Use December As A Time For Mindset ‘Detox’ Before The New Year Things can be hectic as the year comes to a close in December. Making it through the holidays is a feat in itself. However,... By: Candis McDow · 2 days ago
The Main Agenda 4 Ways To Repurpose Gifts You Didn’t Want For Christmas First, congratulations on surviving Christmas! Second, it’s okay if you received gifts you didn’t actually like or want. The old adage says, “It’s the... By: Candis McDow · 3 days ago
The Main Agenda 4 Celebrity-Owned Products That Make Perfect Christmas Gifts Last-minute shopping doesn’t have to look like you wait until the last minute. You may even catch a great deal. Sometimes the perfect Christmas... By: Candis McDow · 3 days ago
The Main Agenda 5 Ways To Enjoy The Holiday While Still Working Working during the holiday has its perks and downsides. On one hand, you’re getting holiday pay, and on the...
The Main Agenda 5 Hobbies That Will Make You Money In 2026 Balancing work and home life is a struggle at times. Hobbies are great distractions and break up the monotony...
The Main Agenda How To Incorporate Gratitude And Reflection Practices To End 2025 With only a few weeks left until the end of the year, closing out on a positive note is usually on everyone’s agenda. By... By: Candis McDow · 5 days ago
The Main Agenda A Guide To Decluttering, Deleting, Deciding Before The New Year The old adage: “clear out the old to prepare for the new” always seems to resonate at this time of the year. As December... By: Candis McDow · 5 days ago
The Main Agenda How To Teach Kids Financial Literacy Through Holiday Gift-Giving The holidays are full of excitement, but also a great chance to teach kids money skills. Incorporating financial lessons into holiday traditions allows children... By: Mia Barnes · 5 days ago
The Main Agenda Why More Women Are Ditching Traditional Christmas Dinners And Creating Their Own Holiday Traditions With each generation comes change and enlightenment. Holidays have become a manner of expression as the world has offered many new options and ideas.... By: Candis McDow · 1 week ago
The Main Agenda How Women Are Using Tech to Win Last-Minute Holiday Shopping Last-minute shopping is no longer a hassle thanks to technology. Working women that have to balance work, family, and inevitable end-of-year demands can confidently... By: Candis McDow · 1 week ago
The Main Agenda The Most Popular Christmas Gifts Women Are Actually Buying This Year If you’re looking for Christmas gift inspiration you’ve come to the right place. There are so many avenues to...
The Main Agenda A Mother Was Born: Katrina George’s Advocacy Journey As A Midwife And A Mother Motherhood has a way of revealing strength you didn’t know you’d need, or already had. For Katrina George, that...
The Main Agenda Festive, Fun And Picture-Perfect: 7 Girls Trip Holiday Getaways December is the perfect month to plan a holiday girls trip, especially if you’re all into the festive vibes around the world. Everyone’s ready... By: Janell Hazelwood, MAOL · 1 week ago
The Main Agenda 7 Solo Getaways For Women Who Want Snow, Sun, Or Somewhere In Between Solo getaways aren’t just for summer, and December doesn’t have to mean participating in the holidays on autopilot. A travel adventure alone this month... By: Janell Hazelwood, MAOL · 1 week ago
The Main Agenda Five Ways To Clarify Your Vision Before Creating A Vision Board The new year brings in new ideas and a fresh start. Many people have vision board parties to focus on the goals and visions... By: Candis McDow · 2 weeks ago
The Main Agenda Meaningful Christmas Gifts That Don’t Break The Bank As the holidays roll in, so do the bills. Deciding what gifts seem financially feasible while maintaining monthly responsibilities doesn’t have to be a... By: Candis McDow · 2 weeks ago
The Main Agenda Meet The Women Behind Michelle Obama’s Most Iconic Hairstyles As Michelle Obama opens up about her evolution of style and self-expression in her forthcoming book, “The Look,” she invites readers behind the scenes... By: Candis McDow · 4 weeks ago
The Main Agenda How To Protect Your Mental Health When Holidays Bring Family Pressure If you live in the U.S., there’s a high chance that the end-of-year holidays are the moment to reconnect...
Entrepreneurship How One Jamaican Farmer Is Reclaiming Her Land After Hurricane Melissa When Category 5 Hurricane Melissa swept through Jamaica this fall, it left devastating destruction in its wake — including...
The Main Agenda The Top 5 Dating Trends Set To Take Over In 2026 If you’re still following a dating checklist going into 2026, it’s time for an update. Singles are rewriting the rules of romance, embracing spontaneity,... By: Her Agenda · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda Why More Dating App Users Are Swiping For Career Opportunities, Not Romance With billions of people around the world and an ever-growing menu of dating apps promising connection, you’d think finding love would be the easy... By: Candis McDow · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda How Gen Z And Gen X Differences In Social Media Behavior Contribute To Parent-Child Generational Divide The digital age has created an unprecedented communication divide between parents and their children. Recent research from LifeStance Health in partnership with Researchscape International, conducted in 2025, reveals... By: Her Agenda · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda Learning How To Live By Your Own Validation From the time we’re young, many of us are taught to measure our worth by how others respond to us — gold stars, applause,... By: Candis McDow · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda Thanksgiving Well-Being: How To Navigate Food, Family And Emotional Labor As the year winds down and the holiday season picks up, many of us are preparing to gather with loved ones from near and... By: Candis McDow · 1 month ago
The Main Agenda 5 Ways Early Holiday Shopping Can Eliminate Anxiety Later The winter holidays are swiftly approaching, which means so is the holiday shopping rush. The best gift you can...
The Main Agenda Why Most Millennials Aren’t 9-To-5 Workers In these times of creating your own lane, it appears that millennials have taken that notion and ran with...
The Main Agenda The Breast Cancer Gap: What Awareness Month Gets Wrong About Women For years we have heard the friendly slogans: “Think pink. Get screened. Survive.” It is comforting and hopeful. But for countless women, especially women... By: Kehinde Adepetun · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda Why Single People Average Less Than Two Dates Per Year As dating apps continue to grow, surprisingly, actual dating is drastically creeping to a halt. It appears that the traditional standards that baby boomers... By: Candis McDow · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda 50 Best Cities To Raise A Family Despite this trend towards rural living, finding the right city to raise a family in—with all the desired qualities in mind—is still doable. To... By: Her Agenda · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda Learning How To Differentiate Forgiveness As An Adult So many things change your perspective as an adult; the joys of the unknown are revealed, and life suddenly becomes real and not as... By: Candis McDow · 2 months ago
The Main Agenda How Cleaning Can Keep Stress Down Have you ever heard the phrase “cleanliness is next to Godliness?” Well, cleaning can be beneficial in multiple ways. Stress, in particular, can be... By: Candis McDow · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda How Mothers With Medically Fragile Children Build Community According to the National Institutes of Health, 19% of children in the United States have special healthcare needs, which...
The Main Agenda When The Child Becomes The Parent: A Look Into Role Reversals With Age An inevitable fact of life is that we age. Some people don’t get to see a certain age, however,...
The Main Agenda 5 Fun ChatGPT Career Prompts To Help You Reflect On Positivity And Grit It takes a lot of emotional bandwidth to juggle a demanding career, work expectations, and adulting in general. Fun ChatGPT prompts, for millennial women... By: Janell Hazelwood, MAOL · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda How Eugenia Cheng Is Redefining What It Means To Be A Mathematician Eugenia Cheng wears many hats: mathematician, pianist, professor, author and scientist-in-residence at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. With perseverance and vision,... By: Candis McDow · 3 months ago
Health & Wellness How To Embrace Healthy Conflict, According To Polly Young-Eisendrath Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD, founder of the Center for Real Dialogue, psychologist, and Jungian analyst, grew up in Akron, Ohio, in a multicultural, working-class family.... By: Luisana Rodríguez · 3 months ago
The Main Agenda Dear Millennials Living With Your Parents, You’re Not The Only One There’s so much shame that comes with not being established at a certain age. Society would lead you to believe you haven’t arrived if... By: Candis McDow · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda Mental Health Check-Ins For Back-To-School Season Back-to-school season is an exciting time, marked by new routines, social groups, academic supplies, and learning opportunities. Yet it also comes with a surge... By: Luisana Rodríguez · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda Enter Mid-30s: Goodbye FOMO Once you enter your 30s, a certain magic happens, and the minute things you used to obsess about suddenly...
The Main Agenda Birthday Destinations For Your Zodiac: The Perfect Travel Itineraries For Each Sign Creating a birthday travel itinerary is the ultimate excuse to take a trip — but where should you go?...
The Main Agenda Table For One Please: Finding The Joy In Solo Dates There is power in enjoying your own company, especially when you display that to the whole world. Have you ever taken yourself out on... By: Candis McDow · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda The Final Stretch: Surviving Summer’s Last Weeks As A Freelancing Parent Summer break is almost over, but not for freelancing parents. This final stretch can feel like the hardest stretch as the novelty of having... By: IMAN M'FAH TRAORE · 4 months ago
The Main Agenda Making Peace With Childhood Trauma: Avenues To Help Heal Childhood traumas can persist into adulthood and impact every decision you make. Whether you’ve talked to someone or held it in for years, the... By: Candis McDow · 5 months ago
The Main Agenda How To Take The Awkwardness Out Of Making Friends In Your 30s Making friends can be a delicate walk of being brave and confident. Sometimes, simply introducing yourself is what turns a stranger into a potential... By: Candis McDow · 5 months ago
The Main Agenda How To Pass A Rental Credit Check Successfully With such a competitive rental market to contend with, it can be difficult for applicants with bad credit to find housing. Sometimes, a poor... By: Her Agenda · 5 months ago
