The Boss of You

If, like us, you have admired Dai­ly­Candy for its smart, savvy style finds (not to men­tion stun­ning, uber-consistent, and clas­sic design), you might enjoy this video I spot­ted over at the Har­vard Busi­ness blog: biz blog­ger & ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Tony Tjan inter­views Dai­ly­Candy founder and edi­to­r­ial direc­tor Dany Levy about her jour­ney as an “accidental […]

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When I first met Jan­ice, a col­league and friend who I very much admire, and a whip smart con­sul­tant to boot, she was just re-entering the work­force after hav­ing taken a few years off with her kids. As she recounted for me some of the tales of inter­views she had been to, where HR reps […]

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I hate to start off blog posts with excuses, but this one really needs a lit­tle ’splain­ing as it were. I con­tacted Jean­nette Ordas, a local Van­cou­ver designer/blogger/all-round-crafty-gal back in early July with this idea that I would run a local sum­mer series of pro­files of some of my local indie busi­ness hero­ines. Then my […]

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Yes­ter­day I received a very top­i­cal and timely email in my inbox from one of my favourite email newslet­ters, Yoy­oBelly. The email, which you can read here, was all about Employ­ment Insur­ance in Canada for gals tak­ing time off to have a baby and for those of you work­ing in Canada and plan­ning for a […]

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