Lisa Thibodeau

When my kids were very young, I spent three hours a day commuting to work. By the time I arrived home, I was exhausted. But the day was far from over. I rushed to pick th…

For Charity Williams, the dream of standing on an Olympic podium didn’t start on the rugby field – it started on the gymnastics mat. As a child, she envisioned herself fl…

I’ve worked in more than one environment where the hardest dynamics weren’t with men, but with other women. Women who saw other women as competition. Women who undermined instead of collaborated. Women who treated another woman’s success as a threat.

My focus was on the kind of leadership the world tends to recognize – the kind that comes with a title and an office. Getting more women into those spaces mattered. It still does. However, it is only part of the picture. My work with CARE Canada showed me another part of a much larger picture.

Growing up, money taught me one thing early on: don’t get too comfortable. My dad was an entrepreneur in the real estate industry, which meant money could come in all at …

Across Canada, more women are working for themselves. They’re freelancers, consultants, creatives, and tradespeople carving out income between school pickups and elder ca…

Breakups have their clichés – the playlist, the ice cream nights, the “closure” talk. But there’s another kind of heartbreak we rarely give space to: when a close friends…

I was twenty years old when I boarded a plane with two suitcases, a one-way ticket to New York, and no real understanding of what it meant to start over. I remember walki…