When New York City marketing professional Cheryl Benton started feeling ignored by mass marketing, she put her foot down. Then she started a little hobby to empower women who were feeling as invisible as she was. TheThreeTomatoes.com started as a newsletter for 60 of Cheryl’s midlife women-friends and contained subjects they talked about: where to […]
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Women’s empowerment is my mission, and that’s why I’m always on the lookout for ideas that will help us succeed at work, at home, and in our communities. Women Feel Like They’re Falling Short A recent article in FastCompany points out how women have greater opportunities than ever before, but are feeling stressed out, anxious, and
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Thanks to Taniya Knights at the Online Schools Centre for sending us this beautiful and compelling infographic about the state of women’s education worldwide. Although access to good internet service and computers are barriers in much of the world, online services certainly have the potential for extending education to a much larger population around the
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The issue of domestic violence slammed its way into most water cooler conversations with the shocking video of Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Rice striking his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer in an elevator in Las Vegas. As a licensed psychologist and a long-time board member of the Victim Center, I have heard many terrifying personal stories from women seeking shelter
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There’s a lot of power in words, and awareness surrounding the way common words can and do hurt women is on the rise. Banning bossy was just the beginning! Women need to be supportive and use words that empower one another, and look for ways to build each other up, not tear each other down.
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Longtime activist Gloria Feldt encourages women to embrace their power and take the lead in business and in politics. She became obsessed with the subject, when she was asked to write an article for Ellemagazine in 2008. She thought it would be a puff piece about women running for office (since our first woman U.S.
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We’ve Come A Long Way As we celebrate Women’s Equality Day and the passage of the 19th Amendment, it’s easy to see that through the hard work of a number of empowered women, we’ve come a long way in a relatively short period of time. We aren’t crossing the finish line just yet though. When
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Mentors Matter Many empowered women in business today can attribute their self confidence and resolve in part to lessons they learned through a mentoring relationship. However, studies show that women have a more difficult time finding mentors than their male counterparts. Why Do Women Have Difficulty Finding Mentors? According to a survey conducted by LinkedIn, 1
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Studies have proven time and time again that women are generally risk averse. It is that very tendency that has protected them throughout history, and fortified female business leaders as recently as this decade. But if women hope to get to the corner office and break through glass ceilings, they have got to be prepared
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Patti Conklin is called a medical intuitive, and in this role she has created a system of self-healing called ColorWorks and ToneWorks, which adjusts the frequencies of the vibrations in our bodies to combat and even prevent disease. Patti says that disease is largely caused by fear. When we get a diagnosis, we fear the
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