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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Women have long been the drivers of change in our communities, and lifting them up into positions where they can make the world a better place benefits all of us. Our history is built on women’s work as powerful leaders, passionate advocates, and dedicated forces for change. Right now, we’re perfectly positioned to become leaders
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Tiffany Shlain speaks with the unique voice of a woman in tech. In her 20’s she celebrated the possibilities of being connected on the internet when she founded the Webby Awards, but after 2007 when the smartphone was invented, things began to change. Everyone began looking at their screens and not at each other. In
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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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2020 is a shaping up to be a big year for advancements in gender equality. In fact, The Guardian reports that world leaders, civil society and the private sector are preparing to make 2020 the biggest year yet for the advancement of women’s rights. Building on previous events, commemorating positive shifts and goals of note,
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Rebecca Sive was raised to work hard, get educated and in turn, teach others. Most of all she was raised by parents who thought it was important to advocate for democratic values and help get people elected to create equal opportunities and fairness for all. Since the 2016 election, and the subsequent Women’s March, Rebecca
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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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