When I worked directly with teenagers, I would use the experiences and activities of celebrities to share life lessons. If we are honest with ourselves (and with each other), we as adults still admire celebrities and may even look to celebrities to measure our own success and self-worth. How many of you wanted ‘Michelle Obama […]
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Years ago, competition was the “Big C”. We were all competing to get to the “top”. Competition showed up in many ways from unnecessary academic pressure put on students to nonprofit organizations fighting over small amounts of funding that generated little impact, to women not trusting other women in the workplace. Today, the “Big C”
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On Sunday, September 22, I attended the Sweet Summer “Bakers & Treat Makers” Expo. The first Bakers Are Kreating Expo was a day to “experience all things sugar from shopping to eating to learning to competing”. Baltimore’s first dessert expo brought together sweet lover, sugar enthusiasts, bakers, cake makers, and sugar artist to indulge themselves
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Bold Authenticity Monthly Leadership Seminars launches on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 1:00pm. ‘Sure he was great, but don’t forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did…backwards and in high heels.’ – Bob Thaves, Cartoonist Do you remember this nursery rhyme? What are little boys made of? Snakes and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails; That’s what little boys
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GET READY!! Cupcakes and Conversations with Nicki Sanders launches on Wednesday, October 9, 2019. Boss Ladies, IT’S TIME to elevate your confidence, competence, and credibility as a woman in leadership! Cupcakes and Conversations with Nicki Sanders is a FREE monthly virtual networking session on Facebook live for professional women. Each month I will facilitate a virtual
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Coffee & Cases: What You Didn’t Learn in Social Work School about Building a Successful Social Work Career ATTENTION: Current BSW and MSW students and 2018 and 2019 graduates! Join two experienced Social Work professionals to learn and discuss the joys, challenges, and opportunities for Social Work students and recent graduates. Laila El-Asmar, LCSW-C and Nicki Sanders, MSW,
As a Human Services Professional, empathy is essential to success in my field. Being empathetic is when your heart goes out to someone else. Being an empath means that you can feel another person’s happiness or sadness in your own body. For better or worse, I am an empath in every sense of the word. Because of
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What is your favorite day of the week? Monday is not the answer for most people. Mondays are not bad, but we associated Mondays with negative experiences. Social media memes notoriously help spread the idea that Mondays are horrible. It doesn’t have to be this way! Do you find yourself in a no-so-great mood at
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Conversations with Nicki Sanders is a special interview feature that showcases the success strategies, advice, and career journeys of authentic women leaders in a variety of industries. Everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE cupcakes and that each month I have a cupcake from a different bakery and that when I travel, I try to
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Lead Like Women! Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE God, my family, social work, and teaching. I also love New Edition, Sesame Street, and of course travel and cupcakes. I’ve traveled to the Caribbean and eaten cupcakes in 14 of the 19 states that I have traveled to in the United States. When
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