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Dear Chicago

Dear Chicago

//My incredible Chicago girl squad// Dear Chicago, It seems like just yesterday I was writing about my big move to Austin, and now, here I am desperately holding back (happy, bittersweet) tears on the plane. In just a few hours I’ll have a new place to call home. It’s one of the scariest things I’ve ever done. But God help me if I didn’t do …

RECAP: That time I hosted #IdeasChat

Chicago Ideas Chat

//Photo Taken By Christina Slaton//  Yesterday was a pretty good day. And by pretty good, I mean basically amazing! Of course I’m talking about my opportunity to host Chicago Ideas Week, weekly Twitter Chat: #IdeasChat. For those of you unfamiliar with Chicago Ideas Week, they are basically the bomb dot com. The put on a week-long thought leadership festival that brings together some of the world’s most …

Your soul (and smartphone!) needs my Morning Mantras

//Photo Take By Christina Slaton// What do you want to tell yourself today? If you know me well at all, you know that I spend a lot of time talking to myself. In fact, most of the topics and stories I write about on Job Offers & Bad Boyfriends start as conversations with my ceiling in the wee hours of the night. But despite all my many thoughts, ideas, concerns, …