Maintaining Mental Wellness during Quarantine May is Mental Health Awareness Month. While we’re all stuck in quarantine, some of us are having a hard time maintaining mental wellness. Not only are many of us physically isolated from family, friends, and loved ones, but we are also inundated with overwhelming information about the state of the …
Konversation with Life Coach, Author, & Speaker Amy McCann This week’s Konversation is an interview with our Global Small Business (GSB) partner Amy McCann of Amy McCann Coaching. Amy is a high-performance life coach for individuals and businesses, author, motivational speaker, and mother living in Manchester, New Hampshire. Amy’s story is a powerful and inspirational …
College Students MUST Network Last week, Konversai’s CEO & Founder Sushma Sharma spoke at an orientation for Master’s students in statistics at Columbia University on networking and time management. In this week’s post, you’ll find Sushma’s nuggets of wisdom on networking for students. (Stay tuned for a future post discussing her useful time management tips.) …
Our Children’s Safety Should Not Be So Hard Guest Post by Anusha Shrivastava, PhD Konverser Anusha Shrivastava shares her perspective on children’s safety in light of the recent tragedy at Barnard College. My Twitter feed was flashing alerts about a tornado approaching my son’s college campus. I texted him. No response. I called. Radio …
10 Tools to Cope with School Stress As we enter the beginning of the school year, it is normal for students to experience academic stress and anxiety. While stress related to school cannot be completely eliminated, it can negatively impact a student’s academic, social, and psychological outcomes if not effectively dealt with. Even worse, school …
Your Child Is Involved in Bullying—Time to Wake Up What comes to mind when you think of bullying? Pushing someone off the swings at the playground? Laughing as a student slips and falls in the cafeteria? Telling a classmate that they can’t sit with you at lunch because of their appearance? While all of these …
Send Your High Schooler to Summer Camp at One of the UK’s Top Universities Many students (and their parents) dream of attending a prestigious university. What better way to get a feel for the college experience than to actually spend time on the campus, taking classes from the professors, staying in the dorms, and getting …
Having a Side Hustle Is No Longer a Choice, It’s a Necessity Last week, 30,000 Los Angeles public school teachers were on strike. As the government shutdown enters its fifth week, 800,000 federal workers continue to be affected, having missed their second paycheck and are even turning to food banks in order to eat. One …
5 Benefits of Volunteering (Beyond What You Might Expect) As the holiday season approaches, may people are thinking about volunteering and contributing to causes that are important to them. Volunteering is a great way to feel more connected to the world around us, make a positive impact, and be part of something bigger than ourselves. …
Konversation with Tina Nies: Life Coach, Writer, & Caregiver For this week’s Konversation, we interviewed Tina Nies, a life coach and writer from Flint, Michigan. Tina offers life counseling sessions on Konversai and can share with you her tools for rekindling the happiness within you when life throws curveballs your way. Read more about Tina …
