by Haley Cahill-Teubert I was working on an entirely different blog piece earlier in the week that lead me to Google: “Characteristics of Type A personality”. Here is the result: (Side note: Can my fellow Type A friends agree that “hostile” and “aggressive” aren’t the most flattering of adjectives to describe us?) I did a Read More
by Haley Cahill-Teubert When I went through recruitment, EVERYONE talked about how fabulous Bid Day would be. From my recruitment counselor to the women in each sorority, everyone was so hyped up for Bid Day. I’m not sure if it was because it meant tons of new women would be joining each chapter, or because Read More
by Haley Cahill-Teubert I dreamed of living in a large city as long as I can remember. From birth to 21, I lived in small towns and I fantasized about something bigger. So when I graduated college, I packed my boxes, loaded up my 2003 Honda and drove until I reached my destination: Nashville, Tennessee. Read More
by Haley Cahill-Teubert I read an article recently that dove into some unique universal habits in conversations. There was one in particular that caught my attention… the pattern of flipping the “right” to speak back and forth, with each turn lasting approximately two seconds (you read that correct… two seconds!) and the gap between those Read More
by Haley Cahill-Teubert This week my husband and I will celebrate our first wedding anniversary. I can’t help but reminisce on life this time last year. Flowers, RSVP cards, bridesmaid dresses, reception songs—it’s all coming back to me. Perhaps most memorable though, is something my mom said to me consistently throughout the wedding planning process. Read More
We want to call out something that’s really messed up in sorority-land: feeling like COB means your chapter is somehow broken or less-than. That’s just not right. For too many sorority women across North America, if your chapter finds itself in a position to do COB (Continuous Open Bidding a.k.a COR a.k.a. year round recruitment), you Read More
Build a plan to MEET as many of the right non-Greek women as possible. We have LOTS of ideas to help you meet non-Greek women. Click here. This is the most important of our 5 tips. Remember, “you can’t recruit who you don’t know.” Plan to meet at least 10x to 15x the amount of Read More
By Abby Ford One of the best life mottoes I learned from my sorority sisters is that, “it costs zero dollars to be a decent human.” It costs us absolutely nothing to be kind to others, and kindness is something that I wished showed up in our daily sorority lives a little more. For context, Read More
by Colleen Coffey-Melchiorre I see you, beautiful. It was a sunny fall day in Nashville when my life changed forever. I grew up in a household that was kind of lonely. For most of my childhood, I longed to belong, I longed to matter. On that fall day, when my life changed… when I found Read More
by Abby Ford If you have ever flown through the Atlanta airport, chances are you have seen people sprinting to catch their connecting flight, or maybe you’ve been that person sprinting. This past August, a newfound hobby of mine was being “that girl” sprinting through the airport, on numerous occasions, and being the person that Read More