Women Leaders; More and Now
Turns out, the leaders I truly admire most are women. This is not a bold statement to anyone who knows me. I have been dedicated to fostering healthy, educated, connected women leadership for literally decades. Being in the field of growing women’s leadership does not, however, automatically mean that I think women are great leaders simply because they are women. There are also exceptional leaders who are not women and when I started on my own journey, most of the leaders I knew were certainly not women. Gender does not automatically destine anyone for great leadership. Still, I...
Read MoreOne World Women
One woman’s life lived in service touches many lives yet to be born in places she will never see. One woman changes the world. What about three? Every person wants to be relevant. Every person wants to make a ripple in the waters of life (and sometimes a full-on tidal wave). Wanting is not the same as doing. This writing is in dedication to the doers. While doing something monumental is not actually required to live a life in service to Good, I am honored to know people who have said yes to a larger calling and whom, in spite of fear, are saying “yes” to being agents of...
Read MoreBlog Revival
The time-space-continuum of the 2020 – 2022 conundrum occurred. What does this mean? Two years disappeared from relative existence since my last blog. How? I wish I knew for sure, but it seems that this is a phenomenon that many people experienced. Time worked differently in the past two years than how it did before the pandemic. It is time for a Revival. It is time to get going again. It isn’t that I have a specific thing to say to share with you this moment that is prompting me to write again. Instead, it is that I have too many things to say and they are all swirling around...
Read MoreWe are All Changed.
2020 is three quarters finished. It seems like we have been in this year for a decade. In other years, September would arrive and I would get the feelings of “this year is almost over already!”. This year I am staring at the September calendar and thinking “still three more months until this year can be officially OVER.” I am not one to wish time away (it is the one resource we can never get more of and we don’t even know how much of it we actually have). But, like you, I am tired. This intensity of upheaval in this year was more than unexpected and I am...
Read MoreWomen Leaders: Why We Need Them; How to Be One!
Learning to be a great leader takes training. There are countless leadership training courses, classes, videos, books and even degrees available for people who truly want to be great leaders. Much of the training available is excellent; especially when looking for training from some of the icons of leadership such as Darren Hardy, Dale Carnegie, Tony Robbins and more (I am sorry if I left out your favorite this time around). When you look at the majority of the great training out there, it was developed by men for men. Women can still use it, of course, but very little of it addresses the...
Read MoreLaugh Lines of Graceful Distinction
I don’t mean to discount anyone who is wrestling with the aging process or anyone who is really truly vested in never looking like they have been on the planet as long as they truly have…but I had an experience yesterday that continues to play in my mind and now I will write it here so it can leave me alone. I have crows feet on my face. On each outside corner of my eyes are lines. They are deep. They don’t go away when my face is relaxed. They get very deep when I am talking, or laughing. I laugh a lot. My lines are permanent. I can’t see them unless I am in...
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