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Six Dresses, Winter Coat Edition: Why Coats are the New Dresses & How They Remind Us of All That’s Possible

The snow is swirling, the wind is whipping, and the temps are plunging. Welcome to February in Chicago, ...

Positively Empowering: Producer Dana Webber’s Inspiring Documentaries About Michelle Obama & Jennifer Aniston

Michelle Obama is featured in a documentary about life after the White House. What do Michelle Obama and ...

Holiday & New Year Edition: Let’s Make 2021 the Year of Being “Extra”

As Christmas approached and I looked to my closet for holiday inspiration, I saw dress after dress like ...

Six Dresses, Thanksgiving Edition: How I’m Letting My Dresses Do the Talking for Me

My first Six Dresses article was intended to get me out of my lockdown wardrobe of yoga pants ...

Six Dresses: The Power of Fashion to Transform How You Look on the Outside & How You Feel on the Inside

I used to wear dresses – a lot. Whether casual dresses or business dresses or cocktail dresses or ...

From the Ground Up: Building a Business Through Content & Community

Elisa Schmitz (center) on the Medill Women in Marketing panel with (from left to right) Karen Entriken, Tiffany ...