mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

I’m a flower-loving, nature-seeking girl at heart, but who doesn’t love natural beauty? I don’t think there are many humans who prefer manufactured concrete and welded metal over living mountains and water. I strive to travel and disconnect from the grid as often as possible, but that doesn’t always have to entail a $400 plane [...]

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Prompt: Friendship. How has a friend changed you or your perspective on the world this year? Was this change gradual, or a sudden burst? All of my friends are such cool, unique, wonderful human beings. The two obvious ones I’m going to talk about for this entry: my A-girls, Ange and Allie (coincidence?). These girls [...]

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Hi, Chicago. What makes a city a great place for young professionals to live and work? That is the question we will be addressing during Brazen Careerist’s second-ever “Crowdsource Your Career” event! Tonight at 7:30 p.m., Writerbabe Raven Moore, Eleven City Diner, and I will be your hosts in a casual social meetup about the great city [...]

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Tonight I will be coordinating and hosting the Chicago branch of Brazen Careerist’s first-ever WORLDWIDE Meetup Everywhere Event called Crowdsource Your Career. Ryan Paugh, Brazen’s community director, reached out to me last week and invited me to participate in the new project, and I jumped at the chance to actually, you know, host and organize something [...]

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For all the wonders the Internet brings us, social media has created some serious monsters. Fame m-m-m-monsters. This is how it works: give a monkey a WordPress and Twitter account, and suddenly they’re a Social Media Marketing Guru Expert Millenial Coach who will Change Your Life!! with their affiliate program that will gain you ten thousand followers [...]

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