Maya's Favorites, Personal Development . By Maya Smart | March 12 , 2014

Win Anyway

The scene plays itself out several times a game.  There comes a moment when an official’s whistle blows (or doesn’t blow)

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Personal Development . By Maya Smart | February 24 , 2014

6 Ways To Turn a Sick Day Into a Better-Already Day

Make Yourself at Home Find the comfiest spot in your house and declare it your get-better zone. Peace, quiet and natural light

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Personal Development . By Maya Smart | February 21 , 2014

Great Reads: Engaging Writing About Women This Week 02.21.14

Here are a few interesting dispatches you may have missed amid this week’s coverage of the Winter Olympics, violence in the

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Personal Development, Community . By Maya Smart | February 19 , 2014

Finding Tomorrow: Experiences in Black Leadership Trailer

I was honored to join a group of Richmonders that Marc Cheatham of The Cheats Movement assembled to discuss black history and

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Personal Development, Community . By Maya Smart | February 18 , 2014

Time or Money: What Do You Give and Why?

Years ago, I volunteered with an understaffed nonprofit that struggled to recruit hands-on board members willing to pitch in

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Personal Development, Community . By Maya Smart | February 13 , 2014

Supermom for Governor: Why Wendy Davis Puts Her Personal Narrative First in Texas Campaign

An article titled “The Legend of Wendy Davis” will appear in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend. 

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Personal Development . By Maya Smart | February 07 , 2014

Go Red: Your Life Depends on It

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Personal Development . By Maya Smart | February 05 , 2014

Katherine Wintsch on Ending the Internal Mommy Wars

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Personal Development . By Maya Smart | February 04 , 2014

How Katherine Wintsch (CEO of The Mom Complex) Makes Things Happen

At 32, Katherine Wintsch hit a maternal wall, a barrier more pronounced and intractable than any glass ceiling.  The

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Personal Development . By Maya Smart | January 29 , 2014

Why I Blog

I’m a website junky.  I launched my first site, MayaPayne.com, in 2002 using a primitive website builder that produced a

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