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#GetSmartNOW week 2 Balance Challenge!

Get Smart Gals are Blazing a Trail to 2014! Week 1 was a huge success and we thank so many of you for commenting and messaging us about how inspired you are to greet 2014 already AWESOME. New Year's Resolutions are hard to keep because they are not always realistic or balanced. They put undue [...]

#GetSmartNOW Balance Challenge #4LifeWellnessWednesday: Try a new recipe!

Hello lovely people Are you looking to GET SMART(er) about what you put into your body? As part of my #GetSmartNOW Balance Challenge, one of the feelings I’d like to achieve in 2014 is healthy. How do I plan on doing so? By nourishing my body with what it needs! Feeling good depends a great [...]

Take the #GetSmartNOW Balance Challenge!

Who waits to be awesome?? Consider joining the #GetSmartNOW balance challenge! Each week for the next 3 weeks we will launch a simple list of things you can do for yourself, your health, your people, and the WORLD! Show up at the doorstep of 2014 READY for anything! Watch a video below to inspire you for [...]

Here’s Caroline: Your 20-Something Soul Starter

My name is Caroline and I'm a new 20-Something mentor here at Get Smart. Let me start off by saying that I am beyond thrilled to be writing for you guys. I have a whole slew of thought-provoking stuff to share, and I cannot wait to dive in. But first- let me explain what I'm [...]

Interview Ready Series: Resumes!

Hey Ladies! I want to start the Interview Ready Series (IRS-haha) reminding you that probably one of the most important aspects of going through this process is that you find the confidence in yourself, in your abilities, and in what you have to offer. Confidence can be clearly displayed in the way you present yourself [...]

Get Smart Gal Kate Gets REAL

Okay, let's #getreal... A few months ago, I wrote an article about creating healthy habits by establishing day-to-day routines.   When I wrote that article, I was on “health high” and I was just feeling great.  I was in a good, fitspirational place. Today I write to be real and admit- SPOILER ALERT: it’s not always [...]

Get SMART with Project Ladybug on 11/11/13!

As some of you may know my mother, Dina Manzo, started her own non-profit foundation in 2007, Project Ladybug, to help children suffering with cancer. It’s a foundation very dear to my heart and I am extremely passionate about raising as much money as possible for these children. Through my volunteering with Project Ladybug I [...]

Month 1: Kate & Steph drop 8.8 lbs WOO!

Month 1 Update In case you missed our first post -- we are losing 20 lbs each by Christmas! Month 1 has been an exciting challenge for both of us but we are committed to CRUSHING 40 lbs just in time for Santa to fill our stockings with...carrots? Oh well we are psyched and happy [...]

Are you a Get Smart “Quotinista?”

How many times have you popped onto Facebook or Twitter in a down moment and seen a quote that snapped you out of your funk? I have always been a  lover of words. Constructing them together in a way that moves others is a gift we give to the world. Being an agent of change, [...]

Keep Calm? Ok. Sure.

Picking ourselves up and staying there After we have endured something that has weighed us down for so long there comes a point when you are more than ready to put it behind you.  It’s hard to imagine what the next step should be.  Falling down over and over seems like a pattern that will [...]