(00:07): Hi Everyone! So January is flying by. And one of the things that I wanted to talk about was what are my 2021 career goals since my early twenties when I found out that I was pregnant with my oldest, I’ve always been very focused on my goals, and I have a very tedious […]
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Working Mom Evening Routine with Baby and Grad School
Video Transcript I hope that everybody’s doing well. Today was a bit exhausting because I’ve been trying to make sure that I can do all the baby’s custody papers. And that has been a lot. I decided that the only way I would be able to film a video is if I do it while […]
Successfully Doing a School Group Project and Not Go Crazy
This week I have been working with my group to submit our final paper to the professor. It was a pretty dry paper. All about how multi-server environments will help reduce the risks of Denial of Service attacks. Fun! Therefore, I’ve been thinking a lot about working in groups. Working on a school group project […]
Google Calendar vs Apple Calendar: Why I Use Both
I wanted to show you the differences between Google Calendar and the Apple Calendar. I’ve been using both apps for years I prefer Google Calendar for when I’m on the web. Still, when I’m on my phone, I prefer Apple Calendar. One of the main reasons that I prefer Apple Calendar on my phone is […]
Mini Vacation Ideas to Relieve Chronic Work Stress
I took a day off around the 4th of July time. It felt good to take that day off, but I need to take off more than a week. One of my projects is ending next Tuesday, so I scheduled to take a week off. However, the client wants a new project to start right […]
Importance of Empathy in Leadership During a Pandemic
We usually talk about being healthy. I think for a lot of people believe physical health, but a lot of it has to do with your emotional wellbeing and how you’re doing mentally. Please make sure you’re taking care of that as well. What I wanted to talk about today is that leaders need to […]
How I Use Google Calendar to be Extra Productive
Hi everyone. So I want to do a video on the ways that I use Google calendar. I have everything in Google Calendar. If I don’t have this calendar near me and on my phone, I don’t know what’s going on, and I will double book triple book myself. One thing that I did was […]
How to Have a Successful Project Kickoff Meeting
I had three new projects start as well as an MBA class, which was all on investment analysis. It was ending, on top of having to do a project, final exam, study for those, starting a new class. I want to share with you the presentation slides that I’ve created, as well as how I […]
5 Lessons I’ve Learned Managing Technical Teams
Hi everyone! Hopefully you had a good start to the week. This was probably the most tiring Monday that I’ve had in a long time. I had meetings from 9AM to almost 6 PM. Two projects had sprint planning sessions, and I was prepping for two others tomorrow. I am pretty exhausted, and I still […]
How to Easily Maintain Your PMP
As I’ve been telling everyone in the other PMP videos that are part of this series, June 30th is when the PMP was supposed to change. But good news due to the current situation that all of us find ourselves in, PMI has decided to extend that change until December 31st. This means that if […]