Hiring Military Spouses is Good for Business

  By: Jaime Chapman, Founder & CEO of Begin Within & Ana Levan, Director of Marketing at Premier Talent Partners  Consider Hiring a U.S. Military Spouse Hiring U.S. military spouses is good for business. Military spouses are scrappy, diverse, and highly...
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The resume isn’t the military spouse, meet Peggy de Villiers.

Totally ignore the resume of a military spouse. Military spouses come in all forms. You may see a hot off the press 18 year old newlywed who has never had a "real job", all the way through industry leading professionals who've been in the workforce for several...
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Military Spouses are Agile, Meet Emerald Trejo

Being a "dependent" is the worst. Military spouses get a bad rap for being "dependas" and mooching off their service member. I am a fiercely independent woman and being called a "dependent" makes me vomit in my mouth every time I hear the word. This week, I discovered...
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Military Spouses are Determined and Passionate, Meet Deidre McVay-Schulmeister

A little bit of grit, and a whole lotta love. Military spouses are just that... spouses. Military spouses all have something in common, they married a service member. Many people say, "You knew what you were getting into when you married a soldier." HECK NO! Not true....
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Milspouses Adjust Quickly, Meet Shirley Walker-King

Over 90% of military spouses are women. According to the White House's Military Spouse Demographics and Employment Information publication, "92% of Active Duty spouses are female". This publication also states that: "Female military spouses earn, on average, 25% less...
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Connie Crisler

Connie Crisler is an Omnist and a Moderate. She’s an iced-coffee addict, appreciates the beauty in all elements of nature and has a critical fashion eye. Connie enjoys spending time playing Design Home. She’s on a never-ending plight to discover her purpose and get to know her genuine, authentic and best-balanced self. She is a project management professional who was born in California, raised in Japan, Germany & Australia. Married an Army guy and has a middle-schooler, a millennial and Gen-Alpha granddaughter. A cause near and dear to her heart is changing the lives of young people by bringing Transcendental Meditation to public schools through her non-profit, All Things Celestial, Corporation. Currently, she lives with her family in Augusta, Georgia and is preparing to move to Europe to live out her dream of traveling around the world.

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Got Your Ikigai?
Career

Got Your Ikigai?

by | Sep 5, 2019

Ikigai. First things first, Ikigai is not anime. It’s not exactly a superpower, but in a way, it can be.  Ikigai, pronounced “ee-kee-gah-ee” is a Japanese term referring to a concept that means...
Coping in Corporate
Self Care

Coping in Corporate

by | Aug 23, 2019

6:00 am.  The sound of a morning radio show abruptly cuts into the still silence of your peaceful slumber. You’re jarred awake by the immediate interruption of the local weather report. Reluctantly,...