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How to: Be a Work at home Mompreneur

Being a mom is hard work, whether you stay at home or have a career along with it. Sometimes I wonder if I’m just out of my mind to work from home. But for the most part, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. Graphic design is one of the most flexible careers out there and [...]

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How to Do: Galaxy Nails

Guest post By Ariana Ferrone Let’s get real – there aren’t many things cooler than learning about space. Star nurseries, nebulas, supernovae… the universe is totally awesome. I look up pictures of galaxies, not cats, when I’m dorking out online. I found a fantastic way to express how much I love space on various [...]

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A big thank you to all who read and support Girlhack.

On this day of thanks, I want to thank all of you who have and continue to support me. Family, friends, fans, and facebookers!! (See what I did there? You all mean so much to me and especially all of the new women who continue to find out about girlhack and let me know [...]

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Volunteering as a Career Development Strategy

Working for free might not be your first plan during a recession, but I am here to tell you that volunteer work is a great career-building tool. I am not specifically talking about charity volunteering (food banks, clothing drives, etc.), but you should do that too. I am talking about volunteering for an organization that works [...]

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Help stop sexual trafficking this holiday season.

I’m still working on putting together a girlhack holiday gift guide of quirky girly and geeky things, but I wanted to share about a foundation that I actually made a donation to today. It is the Somaly Mam Foundation, which was founded by a survivor of human trafficking. Some pretty hefty names sit on their [...]

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Girlhack Holiday 2011 Gift Idea #1 – Robots + Tea

Enjoy tea? Enjoy robots? SOMEONE MADE SOMETHING FOR YOU!! That someone is General Robots of Germany and their Tea Robot. You just simply put the tea in his shiny metal robot body and adjust the arms as you please for some hot tea robot action!

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Takin’ care of business – Setting up your home office

As a freelancer – or even as just a lady with a LOT of paperwork and craft items – a home office is key. At my previous home, it was just a guest room outfitted with a desk and a modem – simple, but efficient. I got teased endlessly from people who thought I should [...]

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My #1 Rule for Online Dating – Make a new user name!!

My #1 rule for online dating is simple: Make a new user name and email that is not associated with your “google-able search results” in any way. I don’t have the fancy OkCupid charts to back this up, but just only years of experience using OkCupid and other sites to try and find love. Turns [...]

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Adorable Fashion Videos

Okay, so a few million have already seen this video, but this “25 ways to wear a scarf in 4.5 minutes” video is worth sharing. It’s informative, clever, and very cute. For us nerdy girls, it also provides a great breakdown of how to configure how to wear all those different scarf styles! I also [...]

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1st Annual Midwest Conference for Women from NAPW

I don’t think I’ll be making it, but if you live anywhere near Chicago and you’re a woman wanting to start a business of any kind, you should totally check this out! Here is some lovely information from their Press Office. Naperville, Illinois – The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) is proud to announce [...]

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