Happy holidays, and welcome to our new annual tradition: the OGC Girl’s Guide.

These are the most-clicked links from across all of our 2024 community digests — the best resources, products, tools, events, reads, and listens shared in the community throughout the year.

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📍A Guide to the Guide

1. 🧠 Reads & Listens

2. 📚 Resources

3. 🛍️ Products

4. 🔨 Tools

5. 📹 OGC Session Recordings

🧠 Reads & Listens

Articles & Essays

• Comparing fractional, freelance, and consulting career models

• Celebrating non-linear career paths and their benefits

• Planning and managing a long, sustainable career

• Examining the evolution of consumer culture in the 2010s

• Gen Z’s impact on traditional marketing models

• Developing taste and judgment in creativity and work

• Letting go of perfectionism in career choices

• Tips for freelancers on vetting clients effectively

• Addressing startup founder challenges like salary and exits

• The importance of doing meaningful work

• Exploring the economic realities for millennials at age 33

• Aging, societal expectations, and personal evolution

• How long hours affect women in demanding professions

• The power of asking extreme questions for better problem-solving

Books

• Redefining traditional work paths

• Applying design principles to craft a fulfilling life

• Wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age

• Investigating how supermarkets function

• Debunking common pregnancy myths with data

• Celebrating the strength and beauty that comes after loss

Newsletters

• Early career strategies for achieving financial independence

• Analyzing tech patents for business insights

• <5 min reads for various startup functions

• Responsible growth marketing for B2C startups

• Women’s issues, data equity, and societal challenges

• Blending spirituality and practical life guidance

• Highlighting female founder stories

• Sustainable entrepreneurship and mission-driven businesses

• News for visual learners

Podcasts

• How love and desire relate to modern relationships

• Exploring creativity, life design, and career growth

• Simplifying life and focusing on what matters most

Reports

• 2024 trends in women-driven consumer markets

• The state of entrepreneurship and emerging trends in 2024

• How Notion used community to drive growth

• Trends and innovations in women’s health
  

📚 Resources

Career & Work

• Career growth frameworks

• Answering the “greatest weakness” interview question

• Prompt design for AI tools

• Building custom GPT-based tools

• Virtual team-building activities

• Examples of work from leaders at tech companies

• Leadership and management training programs

• Career planning for impactful and social good careers

• Guide for effective one-on-one meetings

Consulting & Freelance

• Finance, ops & sales templates for consultants

• Resource for freelancers to compare industry rates

• Checklist for starting a business

• Starting and growing a consultancy business

• Creating an effective value proposition

• Articulating your consulting niche

• Managing finances for freelancers

• A definition of a fractional leader

• State by state guides for setting up and maintaining your solo business

• Health insurance for freelancers and self-employed

Finance

• Define and negotiate a fair compensation offer

• Calculator to assign theoretical monetary value to equity

• Online course on finance basics for non-finance professionals

• Free investing 101 course

Founders

• Improving startup pitch decks

• Software stacks used by startups

• Functions and departments typical of startups

• Grants for female entrepreneurs

• 100+ resources for building a successful startup

• Legal document generator (privacy policies, terms, etc.).

• YC’s essential startup advice for founders

• Fundraising pitch decks used by renowned unicorns

• Guides to fundraising, GTM, hiring, board meetings, etc.

Job Boards

• Alternative job boards for hidden career opportunities

• Jobs in women’s health

• Job board focused on part-time and fractional roles

• Flexible jobs for working parents

• Jobs in health, wellness, and fitness industries

• Compilation of job boards across industries

• Database of remote job boards

• Companies that are currently hiring

• Matching candidates with startup jobs

• Non-profit and social impact roles

• Jobs and resources for working parents

Lifestyle & Personal

• Guide to the best of everything in NYC

• Personalized Human Design insights and tools

• Assess and plan moves between cities

• Site to re-sell wedding dresses

• Ingredient analysis tool for skincare products

• Skincare subreddit wiki for learning the basics

• Fact sheets on pregnancy and baby health topics

• Private grief, caregiver or mental health text support

• 24/7 virtual parenting coach

Marketing & Product

• Mapping customer journeys for better UX

• Generating leads without using social media

• Event discovery platform

• Brand strategy playbook

• Cultural moments encyclopedia

• How to build a user activation experience

• Growing businesses without paid ads

• Best practices for UX and UI designers

• Curated list of copywriting resources

• Content creation gpt prompt templates

• Naming strategies and resources for brands

• Sample size calculator for surveys and research

• Technical SEO audit checklist

• Free library of animations for your site
  

🛍️ Products

Activities

• Beginner crochet kits

• 3D pen set

• Downloadable mystery party kits

Bags

• Clear cosmetics case

• Travel duffel bag

• Chic lunch bags

• Convertible maternity diaper bag

• Insulated tote bag

Clothing

• Ultra flattering one piece bathing suit

• Cashmere t-shirt

• Italian wool oversized blazer

• Long-enough denim shorts

• Fabric care tool for de-pilling

• Women’s sustainable underwear

• Bras for fuller bust sizes

• Super soft loungewear

• High-impact sports bras

• Women’s boyfriend joggers

• Elevated matching PJ sets

• Quilted puffer jacket

• Cute compression socks

• Quick dry travel friendly sandals

• Mary Jane ballet flats

• Slippers with arch support

• Hands-free shoes

Fitness

• Active in-ear earbuds

• Yoga mats

• Yoga YouTube channel

• Virtual workouts and meditations

• Virtual workouts and training plans

Home & Organization

• Customizable notebooks

• Refurbished Herman Miller chair

• Floor lamp that fills a dark room

• Dyson vacuum dupe

• Silk pillowcases

• Aesthetic room divider

• Stationery and planners

• Sustainable kitchen towels

• 10-piece glass food storage set

• Easy to clean humidifiers

• Personalized watercolor house sketches

• High quality, reasonably priced area rugs

• Adjustable support pillows

• Mattresses and bedding

• Customizable photo wall art

• Cooling comforter

• Extendable dining table

• Reusable paper towels in fun patterns

• Large soup bowls that are also pretty

• Ceramic soap dispenser

• Laundry detergent for delicate fabrics

• Whole-room heater

Tech

• Portable computer monitor

• Google’s mobile phone plans

• Selfie ring light

• A better webcam

• Refurbished electronics marketplace

Wellness & Beauty

• Probiotics with sustainable refills

• Natural deodorant that works

• Neck and upper back stretcher for laptop workers

• Weighted eye mask

• Tinted moisturizing sunscreen

• Peptide lip treatment

• Customizable nutrition supplements

• High quality ceramic round brush

• Hair dryer line dyson alternative

• All-in-one skin, hair, and scalp serum

• Electric body hair trimmer

• Heatless curling set

• Nail strengthening top coat

• Disposable ear plugs to block out snores

• Hydrating cleanser

• 24/7 virtual parenting coach

🔨 Tools

Organization & Time Management

• Content and thought organization app

• Shared brain space for couples

• Manage multiple google accounts in one space

• AI calendar optimizer

• Work from home virtual coworking

• Meeting recorder with transcription and summaries

• Virtual assistant and delegation coaching

• Email reminder tool for task follow up

• Task management and to-do list app

• Time tracking app

• Collaborative task management and planning tool

• Password management tool

• Pomodoro timer for focused work

• Tool for saving, organizing, and highlighting digital content

Personal

• Bypass paywalls and access full articles

• Personal finance tracking and optimization

• Practice and improve interview skills

• Managing and minimizing jet lag

• New mobile web browser

• Food/cosmetics scanner to analyze nutritional and health impact

• Speed reading browser extension

• Resume builder with customizable templates

• Financial gifting app for kids

Sales & Marketing

• Email marketing platform

• Easy to use CRM

• Easily document processes and product walkthroughs

• AI-powered copywriting tool for marketing/content ideas

• Business management for coaches

• Create interactive, high conversion product demos

• Slide templates
  

📹 OGC Session Recordings

Personal

• Incorporating AI into your daily life

• Get unstuck

• Panel: MBA admissions

• Angel investing 101

• Stock options 101

• Personal branding for high achieving women

• Becoming a European expat

Work

• Establish yourself as a thought leader

• Exploring fractional leadership

• Get the job you actually want

• Create opportunity with Linkedin outreach

• Exploring portfolio careers

• Optimize your newsletter

• Google 101

• Performance marketing foundations (pw: b=%%$q6?)

Happy holidays!

❤️ Mallory & the OGC team