Beth Sirull says that it’s important to educate women about the power of money, whether it be philanthropic money, spending money, or investment dollars. How you earn it, spend it, or give it away is very powerful. It’s becoming even more important because today 45 percent of American millionaires are women and by the year […]
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When Sarah Beach realized her daughters had limiting beliefs about what girls and women could do, she stepped up to the challenge and founded a magazine to provide them with role models of strong women and girls—“ordinary girls doing extraordinary things”—and STRONG: The Magazine for Girls was born. Since its founding, many things have changed:
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Dr. Grace Lee is the perfect example of how to align your career with who you are, both in her personal choice, and using her experience in neuroscience to assist others in finding purposeful, fulfilling careers. She calls her technique “brain-based coaching” and has created a new movement, Career Revisionist, for empowered people who are
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Susan Burrell is an inspirational speaker and author, and she has written a book to give you the tools you need to make 2020 your happiest year ever. Susan took a powerful life lesson from a contentious divorce, looked deeply at the wonderful guidance she had been giving clients and students for 25 years, and
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Trudy Bourgeois challenges women to stop blaming men and each other for keeping us from achieving leadership and equality, and start playing. It’s time to create our individual consciousness and find a shared voice. She says that her recent research shows that throughout history when women inserted themselves into an issue and decided to be
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If you were an aspiring actress and found a thousand women who looked like you applying for the same role, would you be inspired to quit or to get those thousand women jobs that would help them get their voices heard? Terra Renee made the second choice, became an aspiring filmmaker, founded an organization to
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Dr. Lois Frankel, President of Corporate Coaching International, says that we’ll know when women have reached the top when we quit counting and no longer cite how many women are sitting on the Supreme Court or how many women are world leaders. We’ll really know women have arrived at the apex when the court is
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Luz Reyes-Martin works hard getting more women in government and showing them how to run for elected offices. She is serving her first year as President of the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee, a non-partisan organization that works to expand our democracy and include more women and feminist policies at every level. In fact, she
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Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain is using her skills making connections to address the important issues that shape our lives. Not contented just to make movies, Tiffany chooses subjects to enlighten audiences about the truth that contradicts commonly held beliefs in our society, then constructs world-wide events to connect people, get them talking, and take action
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Barclay DeVeau is sounding the alarm that women are being hidden under gender bias in all facets of the movie business, where they struggle to get funding to get their voices heard, their images seen and their stories told. Barclay grew up in the business as a child actress on the Broadway stage and in
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