On WittedRoots.com, the Money + Career sub-category explores topics such as personal finances, goal setting, productivity, and entrepreneurship.
Unemployment And Mental Health: The Link Between Them
Losing (or not having) a job can have a negative effect on your emotional well-being. Not only have you lost a steady source of earnings, but also your sense of purpose. Being unemployed can cause you to feel helpless, out...
Career vs Family: Choosing Between Job And Family
Do I work for fifty hours at the dream job that I earned after years of hard work at college? Or do I stay at home as a full-time mom embracing every second of my kids’ development? Many women struggle...
Women In The Workplace: Censor Their Personalities To Be Accepted
Work emails have been on my mind a lot lately. Have you ever superfluously peppered messages with “please let me know” and “do not hesitate”? Then you end up retracting the text only to sit and wonder how you will...
How To Deal With Rejection And Overcome The Fear Of Rejection
Rejection is as common as a cold. Everyone has experienced it. If you have not, well, you are one lucky individual, and I need the details of how you achieved that. But if you are like most other individuals, like...
Money Management: Knowing How To Manage Money Is A Part Of Self-Care
Money management is an often overlooked aspect of emotional wellbeing. In the same ways that I rely on sleep, Netflix, and exercise as part of my self-care, so do I regularly monitor my bank accounts and work towards building my...
A Dream Deferred And Its Effects On Your Mental Health
“Your entire life could be ripping apart at the seams, and unfortunately, the world doesn’t stop turning just because you’re mentally ill.” This a very hard truth that a good friend once explained to me, in a conversation about the...
The Daily Grind May Come With That Failing Pressures.
I’m sure at some point in your life or another you’ve heard or read the following quote: “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” Ellen Johnson Sirleaf If that isn’t the truth then I don’t...
How To Start Over In Life: Steps To Begin At The End
It’s no secret that a lot of great stories are born out of even more difficult endings. Endings are as natural a life process like any other and are a pivotal part of any kind of change in life as...
How To Be Successful In Graduate School?
My first go around the collegiate pool was not easy by any means. The late nights and homesickness. The sudden Black consciousness that made me simultaneously enlightened and irate as I learned more and more about our history. Pair that...
Resources And Networks: Millennial Woman Of Color In Grad School
This article is the second of a two-part follow-up to my first article on navigating graduate school as a Millennial Women of Color. You can read Part I here. In this article, I discuss finding resources & building networks You...