Chester's
Story JarAt CMD, Story Jar is an activity that creates space for individuals to bring in and share stories from their lives. This space allows our team to exemplify our storytelling philosophy in an informative way to empower underrepresented, underserved, and untapped communities. The idea of listening to, crafting, and telling stories is fundamental to who we are. Chester’s Story Jar will allow us to provide resources, inspiration, and strategies for future professional storytelling endeavors in a more accessible way. Check back regularly each month to hear our stories of community outreach, career tips, and impact stories regarding our mission to support storytellers everywhere.
Chester’s Story Jar
At CMD, Story Jar is an activity that creates space for individuals to bring in and share stories from their lives. This space allows our team to exemplify our storytelling philosophy in an informative way to empower underrepresented, underserved, and untapped communities. The idea of listening to, crafting, and telling stories is fundamental to who we are. Chester’s Story Jar will allow us to provide resources, inspiration, and strategies for future professional storytelling endeavors in a more accessible way. Check back regularly each month to hear our stories of community outreach, career tips, and impact stories regarding our mission to support storytellers everywhere.
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Welcome To Chester’s Story Jar
What in the world is a Story Jar?
Well, I asked that very same question when I joined the team at Chocolate Milk Diplomacy. To us, Story Jar is an activity that creates space for each individual to bring in the stories from their lives.
GUEST STORIES
Accelerating Technical Growth Through Yoga
For me, yoga is an outlet through which I can practice patience, gain perspective, and connect with other people. Engineering is the outlet through which I get to use my brain to solve difficult challenges in creative ways; the combination of these two passions of mine has helped me grow immensely.
The Future of Women in Supply Chain: Closing the Gender Gap
As a woman of color who has chosen to pursue a career in supply chain, I firmly believe we have what it takes to close the gender gap. It is on us − as a global community − to expose STEM to female students at an early age, mentor and sponsor women throughout their career trajectory, and promote inclusive supply chain leadership on the factory floors and in the C-suite.
Beautiful, Uncertain, and Humbling: Measured Risks in Volunteer Leadership
Volunteer leadership is a beautiful, uncertain, and humbling thing. I found great joy in both the personal growth I experienced and in what my friends and I were able to accomplish together in these groups.
Redefine Your Relationship With Money
Personal finances are one of the most bewildering, yet essential aspects of adulting. Without a doubt, how you handle your money today, tomorrow and into the future, will affect your quality of life, and the life of everyone around you.
Positivity Through Uncertainty
Positivity can be helpful in relation to a person’s mental health and also be used to benefit those around them.
Professional Experience Vs Passion Projects
Grab the nearest writing utensil and something you can write on. Have them? Great! Now, on that sticky note, piece of paper, or back of a receipt, answer this…
Trusting Yourself in Your Career Journey
I recently visited Olympic National Park and learned about nurse logs. Wikipedia defines nurse logs as “a fallen tree, which, as it decays, provides…
Navigating Pandemic Detours
From the moment I signed my full time job offer in the fall of 2019, I didn’t give my future career another thought until the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced my hand…
Stepping Off the Treadmill of Tech
If I traveled back in time to meet my younger self and told her that I had quit my data engineering job to take a year-long break, my younger self would give me an incredulous look. “What are you going to…
Imposter Syndrome: Changing the Voice in Your Head
The Harvard Business Review definition of imposter syndrome is, “a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite…
RECENT STORIES
How to Write a Cover Letter in 60 Minutes
So you want to write a cover letter? Read now to find out what they are, why we dislike them, and CMD’s simple three-step framework for writing them.
Accelerating Technical Growth Through Yoga
For me, yoga is an outlet through which I can practice patience, gain perspective, and connect with other people. Engineering is the outlet through which I get to use my brain to solve difficult challenges in creative ways; the combination of these two passions of mine has helped me grow immensely.
The Future of Women in Supply Chain: Closing the Gender Gap
As a woman of color who has chosen to pursue a career in supply chain, I firmly believe we have what it takes to close the gender gap. It is on us − as a global community − to expose STEM to female students at an early age, mentor and sponsor women throughout their career trajectory, and promote inclusive supply chain leadership on the factory floors and in the C-suite.
Beautiful, Uncertain, and Humbling: Measured Risks in Volunteer Leadership
Volunteer leadership is a beautiful, uncertain, and humbling thing. I found great joy in both the personal growth I experienced and in what my friends and I were able to accomplish together in these groups.
Redefine Your Relationship With Money
Personal finances are one of the most bewildering, yet essential aspects of adulting. Without a doubt, how you handle your money today, tomorrow and into the future, will affect your quality of life, and the life of everyone around you.
Positivity Through Uncertainty
Positivity can be helpful in relation to a person’s mental health and also be used to benefit those around them.
Professional Experience Vs Passion Projects
Grab the nearest writing utensil and something you can write on. Have them? Great! Now, on that sticky note, piece of paper, or back of a receipt, answer this…
Trusting Yourself in Your Career Journey
I recently visited Olympic National Park and learned about nurse logs. Wikipedia defines nurse logs as “a fallen tree, which, as it decays, provides…
Navigating Pandemic Detours
From the moment I signed my full time job offer in the fall of 2019, I didn’t give my future career another thought until the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced my hand…
Stepping Off the Treadmill of Tech
If I traveled back in time to meet my younger self and told her that I had quit my data engineering job to take a year-long break, my younger self would give me an incredulous look. “What are you going to…
Imposter Syndrome: Changing the Voice in Your Head
The Harvard Business Review definition of imposter syndrome is, “a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite…
Why I Founded Chocolate Milk Diplomacy
If you’ve made it to this page, you probably have few questions... I hope to answer all of those questions while sharing a part of my story with all...
Welcome To Chester’s Story Jar
What in the world is a Story Jar?
Well, I asked that very same question when I joined the team at Chocolate Milk Diplomacy. To us, Story Jar is an activity that creates space for each individual to bring in the stories from their lives.