Lexi Herrick- Her Track

It’s the season of goal-setting.  Often, an exercise in futility.  Conducted in earnest.  Born from the forcible waters of self-reflection. Pools of deception and honesty, of empathy and ridicule, or red-painted redemption.  Each year, we do the same thing.  We sit down with ourselves, after a week of binge-watching, doom-scrolling and dessert-inhaling, to figure out just what it is about…

How to Protect Yourself on Dating Apps: 6 Tips For Safe Online Dating

Meeting someone and knowing that you connect is a sure sign that what you have is more than just a fleeting thing.  Is it love,infatuation or friendship? But what if it’s something dangerous already? How do you protect yourself once you’re in there?   Here are safety tips that might help save hearts and lives.. There are good people and bad people. Some daters aim to find that one true love,…

7 Career Tips For Getting the Most Value Out of Your Day Job

Life Isn’t About Staying Relevant: It’s About Creating Meaning

In the annual season of goal-setting, achievement-seeking and relentless self-comparison, I can’t help but feel myself reconsidering the narrative. Or maybe the metrics by which we define success and value for ourselves. There’s a growing focus on achieving sustained relevancy and influence at scale– clout, if you will. It feel like there’s more of a need for this kind of validation than ever…

5 Ways I’m Not Who I Used to Be– And Ok With That

Have I changed? A simple question. A common question. A kick-in-the-belly, pull-at-the-soul, keeps-you-up-at-night, kind of question. I’ve asked myself this many times throughout my life, but especially lately. Call it age. Call it time. Call it a global pandemic. Whatever the reason, I find myself standing at the proverbial crossroad of self-exploration that leads you to ask yourself what…

5 Summer Outfit Ideas For Every Occasion

It’s happening. Our social lives…they’re happening again this summer. At least in some way, shape or form. They’re happening. “WOOOOOOOOOOO!“ But also: “AHHHHHHHHH!” We all have mixed emotions about this transition, I know. Perhaps one of the more light-hearted of those emotions is concern over the state of our current wardrobes. Because what the HECK are we supposed to wear now that…

This is the Kind of Crazy You Need to Achieve Your Dreams

I think every outstanding person is also a little insane. Every groundbreaking scientist. Self-made entrepreneur. Record-shattering athlete. Every and any person that creates art. The writers. The musicians. The painters. Every and any person that relentlessly serves a greater cause. The healers. The activists. The teachers. Every instance of true greatness—of innovative, fantastic fortitude,…

10 Must-Read Resume Tips for Young Professionals

The job search is impossibly tough. Especially when you’re A: Newer to the workforce, B: In an insanely competitive market, and C: Doing this all during a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. My heart goes out to all of you. Seriously. So before I get into all of this tough-luv-style resume advice, here are a few words of encouragement: Keep heart. You’re going to get through this process and learn a lot about…

16 Home Office Essentials for the Perfect Work-From-Home Space

For many of us, work-from-home has become…work? Your home office is now your entire office. The walk from your bed to your laptop is now the morning commute. Changing from sleeping leggings to your high-class, much more professional, daytime leggings is your new business casual. This is a reality I was in denial of for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I refused to update my home office…

You’re Still in Charge of Your Own Story, Even in a Pandemic

This winter, I hit the worst of my pandemic walls. I like to think I’ve maintained a sense of hope and progress for a decent portion of the last year, but these last few months have taken their toll on me. Maybe it was the cold. The short days and long nights, day-in and day-out, alone in my living room, connecting to humans through a blue-lit screen. Or reading the often-horrific news, slowly…

2020 Gift Guide for Shopping Small on Etsy This Holiday Season

If there was any year to dedicate yourself to shopping small, it’s this one.

2020 has been especially hard on small businesses, artisans and creators. In-store shopping was severely reduced and in some cases, many owners have had to close their doors altogether. Markets, craft shows, street fairs and large events that typically showcase this work have been canceled. These humans HANDCRAFT…

COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, has rapidly and aggressively impacted day-to-day life for everyone in this country, and many countries across the globe. COVID-19 poses a very serious threat to the health and well-being of our populations, and therefore precautions and restrictions have been put in place to slow the spread of the virus.

Businesses and schools are closing or reverting to work-from…

People Aren’t Band-Aids For Brokenness

I’m sitting cross-legged on my bed with my roommate stretched out on the rug in front of me. She still has a lanyard of keys in her hand after having just walked in the door.

I still have black make-up smeared under my eyes from having to deliver yet another untimely and disheartening goodbye speech an hour prior. A good-bye I never wanted, but knew was needed.

As I’m venting, waving my…

To My Best Friends: You’ll Always Be My Favorite Love Story

When I was an awkward, concerningly sentimental pre-teen, there was nothing I adored more than love stories.

I was obsessed with them. Tragic love stories. Happy-ending love stories. Poetic, messy and complicated love stories. Cheesy, improbable, nauseating love stories. Love stories with magic and monsters.

Nothing in the world quenched the thirst of my young, curious soul quite like the…

You Don’t Have to Apologize For Wanting Everything From Life

I have a deep set of obscure beliefs that I cling to with relentless conviction.

I believe blasting punk rock music and putting on red lipstick is the best medicine for just about all of life’s daily ailments.

I believe coffee should be scolding hot. I believe whiskey should be strong and straight. I believe wine should be dry and red.

I believe music should be raw and real, bleeding…

40 Must-Read Tips for Every Young Professional Building a Killer Career

This week, my little sister started her first full-time job.

I KNOW! I’m super proud.

And I KNOW! I’m super old.

Just kidding. I’m not that old. But the expedited nature of my career thus far has enabled me to learn a ton of valuable lessons in a relatively short period of time. So I feel old, in a good way.

It’s so exciting to watch lil sis begin her professional journey. It’s…

10 Safety Tips Every Woman Needs to Know

I want to start by stating the obvious: It’s not fair that we as women have to protect ourselves as much as we do.

OF course, that is true.

It’s not fair that we have to watch where we go alone.

It’s not fair that we have to be careful about what we wear and how quickly we are to trust people we don’t know.

It’s not fair that we have to be constantly on guard against violence and…