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Fake or real? (opens the original)
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I’m sweating so much every item of clothing I’m wearing is stuck to me. Even my sweat is sweating. The air conditioner is on but not enough to cool off 35 women standing less than a couple of feet from each other, singing, practicing, and performing for two to three hours in the middle of August. But this is what doing the work looks and feels like.When I first joined my chorus, I was a teenager and I thought this was easy. I just had to sing the right notes. I’d been doing that for years, in sc
Not all sunshine and fireflies and Zinfandel (opens the original)
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I’ve worked for the same company, in some form or another, for 20 years. Twenty years of working to help a team of people, including myself, reach goals. I’ve also worked for, in some form or another, another organization for roughly twice that. Almost 40 years of helping a team of people, including myself, reach goals.One of these I work in a smaller team as part of a 1,000 plus person professional services company. The other I work in a smaller team as part of a 10,000 plus women’s singing org
The harder you push, the worse it gets (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowIf you’re an early Gen-Xer like me, you probably remember the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC).For those of you lucky enough to have missed it, the PMRC was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 for the purpose of policing the lyrics and themes around music - specifically, but not exclusively, heavy metal music. The committee was made up of “Washington Wives”, four women whose husbands had Washington connections but did not themselves hold office.<p
The release valve that saved my self-respect (opens the original)
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Nobody talks about the suck (opens the original)
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Nobody talks about the suck that comes with starting your own thing.When you first decide you’re going to do it, you have this amazing excitement. You feel like this will change everything! You won’t have to worry about money. You’ll have all the time you want to do all the things you love. You’ll have great skin. The laundry will do itself. Your kitchen utensil drawer will no longer be a tangled mess of tongs and spatulas! The world is your calamari!After all, you’ve got experience and expertis
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