Yodit is without a doubt a continuous #WCW for me. In one of my first posts, I talk about how much I adore powerful women and she certainly exemplifies that. Beyond her obvious beauty (no, literally. She was named one of the Top 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas last year), she’s incredibly intelligent, and…
Brianna McCullough, a fellow 9-5’er and writer is only 23 with about 30 years of experience under her belt. We connected through Instagram where she’s since blown me away with her maturity, kindness and most of all intelligence. She’s one of the young women that you don’t hear about who’s working quietly, but diligently to…
One of the most frustrating things about my post-grad job search was completing an hour long 16-page job application that required everything from your GPA to volunteer experience, only for them to require a cover letter before you could press submit. I just told you everything about me, what more information could a company possible…
When I originally drafted this post, I sat last Tuesday smirking at the thought of me being able to boast that my girl Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump with the entire world watching. I drafted it with all of the confidence in the world that Hillary would be taking on the grueling honor of being…
One of the questions I get most frequently are along the lines of 1) how I balance blogging + work 2) whether or not I plan posts to keep The B Werd content consistent and 3) how difficult is it? I won’t say that I balance them well enough in any way. I do the best that…
December will make three years since I finished undergrad and set out into the real world. I’d been working a corporate job since I was 17 so I was familiar with the culture but it wasn’t until I started at my current company that I really began to unravel the civics of it all. Up until…
Those of you who’ve been following The B Werd since the beginning of this year know that I’ve had quite a bit to say in regards to minority issues in America, specifically Black lives. I was moved by what Jesse Williams had to say at this years BET Awards and shortly after I wrote this…
Ciera was who connected us two. I met Rocc when I was visiting Los Angeles for one of my best friend’s birthdays, Christina. We had rented a beach house in Malibu and Rocc came over to spend the night with us. Hours into us meeting we were in tears from laughing so hard. Those kind…
I started working in corporate America at a pretty early age. I began a co-op program with Shell when I was a junior in high school and stayed with them until my sophomore year of college so I was acquainted with corporate culture before any of my friends had stepped foot into their actual careers….
I met with one of my blogger girlfriends the other night for dinner. She’s a bold and eccentric African American trying to ease her way into the fashion world. We recapped on her recent trip to New York Fashion Week which then led into the topic of finding your way into the in-crowd of these…
Candice Marie is a fellow blogger but unlike me, her expertise is in finance. I value her content because with bloggers and social media, we easily get caught up in how we can spend our money to look and feel good knowing good and well we work regular jobs and live regular lives. Conversations about how to…
I’m aware through interaction with you all that many of The B Werd readers are aspiring to have blogs and businesses of their own, if they don’t already. The reason why I launched this site to begin with, was to be able to provide effective resources for the women who are brave enough to go…
Whether you’re starting a blog or a business, it gets very pricey building a brand. What I don’t want is for any of you to wait to begin your business venture because you think you’re not financially capable of getting it off the ground. Yes, you will need money for a lot of things, but…
I spend a lot of time trying to continuously find ways to keep my creative process going. I’m always searching for things that spark inspiration while continuing to learn along the way. I typically listen to music from the time I wake up until I take a bath at night but when a friend suggested…
I’ve always imagined myself excelling in Corporate America. Something about being the only woman at a round table meeting with all men thrills me. I love the politics of it and being only 26, it’s allowed me to meet and work closely with a lot of Houston’s development movers and shakers. There’s an obvious stigma…