By Sabrina Broderick (MSM ’25), Assistant Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University If you followed the 2026 Winter Olympics, you have likely heard the name Alysa Liu. Even before she won gold, she stood out among the most talented athletes […]
Back in early Fall 2025, we shared out an Alumni Needs Survey in hopes of gathering information about the most pressing concerns of Wake Forest alumni based on their career stages. After hearing from so many of you, we continued to dig deeper through individual […]
If you’re thinking about winding down your career in 2026 and starting to plan for retirement, now is a great time to start imagining your future and gathering strategies for this transition. A great source of guidance is The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, especially this […]
Hi! My name is Sabrina, and I’m the new Assistant Director of the Alumni Personal & Career Development Center. I recently graduated from Wake Forest’s MSM program (woohoo!) and am here to share with you some lessons I’ve learned from my first month in my […]
It’s easy, when you’re just starting out in your professional career, to focus on transactional measures of success, like money and title. But at some point along the way, you’re likely to ask questions of meaning and purpose, and what makes for a fulfilling career […]
Have you made a plan for retirement yet? According to this article from Forbes, it’s never too soon to start thinking about your financial future, how you want to spend your time, and consider what will give you meaning and fulfillment. “The Third Act […]
Without question, career paths have changed, with more and more people extending their work lives beyond “traditional” retirement age, and even looking for second and third acts. Life doesn’t stop just because you stop showing up to an office (or whatever that has looked like […]
If you find yourself preparing for retirement or starting your post-career life, it can be challenging to figure out your identity and meaningful for this next phase. In this article from Wisebird, explore what it means to reframe your self-identity after leaving the world […]
All you have to do is pull up your Instagram or TikTok app to be bombarded with posts and videos about making “easy, passive income” online through various digital means. In fact, “The hashtags #makemoneyonline and #sidehustle have 1.5 and 2.5 million posts on TikTok, […]
In this article written by Deloitte employee Lori Wren Elerts, she shares reflections and lessons learned from 18 years of managing her career and being a present parent. Additionally, she describes the importance of having organizational support for working parents shifting between personal and […]