Women to Women: Catalyst or Cat Fight?
While shopping today at one of my favorite stores in one of my favorite departments, I came across a saleswoman who had something to say. It wasn’t what I was expecting. She told me that she disliked working with women and found them to be back-stabbing, conniving, jealous, manipulative and generally untrustworthy. No matter how much I was tempted to disagree, or try to persuade her otherwise, I held my tongue and let her talk. This, unfortunately, has been her experience over a long career in the public service sector before retiring out of frustration and now working for minimum...
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I didn’t start out doing big things. I grew into them. Walking 60 miles for women with breast cancer as co-captain of an amazing team didn’t happen overnight. Going to China for six weeks to facilitate women’s leadership wasn’t done on a whim and without ten months of preparation first. Running a full marathon in Alaska for Leukemia and Lymphoma Research happened one step at a time, over five months of training. The end results were big events that drew attention, but the real difference was made along the journey. How did I get started? I cared about the...
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Right now there is a girl who lives on the other side of the ocean who does not have any idea that you exist. Until you started reading this, you might not have thought about her either…but she is there. She doesn’t know what life is like outside of her village. She hasn’t met other women from other places who help her expand her world and who encourage her to dream bigger, to grow in new ways, to be part of the solution to the challenges in the world. She has no idea how powerful she is. She does not realize that she can change the world. Do you? Can you help her? Would you, if you...
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