Posts tagged PowerTo
Credit Due: Taylor Swift’s Advice About Power and Female Friendship
Credit Due: Taylor Swift’s Advice About Power and Female Friendship

Issue 257 — April 22, 2024

I’m listening to Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, looking for inspiration for my more-or-less weekly column, “The Sum.” As in the sum of the week, what it means or what I learned about my favorite topics — women, power, and leadership — from whatever happened during the past week.

The last couple of weeks for me were all Beyonce all the time with the release and immediate race to the top of the C&W charts of her album Cowboy Carter. (How many versions of dancing to “Texas Hold ‘Em” have you seen on social media so far? I’m obsessed.)

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Hoda Kotb’s Excellent Advice for Women at Forbes 50 Over 50: “Say It Out Loud.”
Hoda Kotb’s Excellent Advice for Women at Forbes 50 Over 50: “Say It Out Loud.”

Issue 214— December 12, 2022

“Say what you want out loud.”

That was the most quoted takeaway from the fireside chat interview between Morning Joe co-anchor and founder/partner with Forbes in the “Know Your Value” initiative, Mika Brzezinski and NBC’s Today Show cohost Hoda Kotb at the gathering of women chosen for Forbes 50 Over 50 2022 on December 8 at Forbes’ New York headquarters.

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Change Leadership, Career success, Ambition / Intention, Leadership tools and tips, Leadership Power ToolsGloria FeldtLeadership Tools, Women Leaders, Gloria Feldt, PowerToComment
What if Your Big RE Is to be a Waymaker?
What if Your Big RE Is to be a Waymaker?

If you had the courage to use your Power TO do what is your highest intention and all you deserve to be in the world, what would you do, Friend?

Tara Jaye Frank, a featured keynote speaker for Take The Lead’s hybrid Power Up Big RE Concert and Conference on August 26 believes every leader in every seat has the power to become a Waymaker to create sustainable change and equity for women.

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Take The Lead EventsFelicia DavisThe Big Re, PowerTo, EquityComment
Power As Hammer: Gloria Feldt’s Book Launch On Intention, Power & Why Luck Is Not What You Need
Power As Hammer: Gloria Feldt’s Book Launch On Intention, Power & Why Luck Is Not What You Need

“As soon as we can talk about power as a hammer—you can break something with it or you can build something with it— we turn power into a generative, innovative, creative positive idea as the power to,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at her live and virtual book launch for her latest book, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women Will Take The Lead for (Everyone's) Good.

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The Sum, Women Career Success, Take The Lead LaunchMichele WeldonIntentioning, PowerTo, Purpose, gender parityComment
How long until justice? Juneteenth symbolizes both question and answer
How long until justice? Juneteenth symbolizes both question and answer

June 18, 2021

Growing up deep in the heart of Texas, I learned in (segregated) school that Juneteenth was a big celebration day for Black people because it marked the date on which the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, finally reached Texas on June 19th, 1865.

This date, when federal troops arrived in Galveston to take control of the state after the Civil War, at last ended the egregious practice of legal human slavery in the United States.

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Leadership/Organizational, Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par...Gloria FeldtRacism, social justice, Activism, PowerToComment
What Does MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech Say to You Today?
What Does MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Speech Say to You Today?

Issue 157 — January 17, 2021

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

That’s my favorite quote from Dr. King. And I feel sure that if he were writing those words today, he would include “woman.” Because as he himself often noted, justice must always expand to be inclusive of all.

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The Sum  — The Meaning of This Week: Heat
The Sum  — The Meaning of This Week: Heat

 I landed in Phoenix @ 120 degrees. Or 122, but who’s counting. Yes, it feels like putting your head in an oven even if it’s a dry heat.

There’s lots of heat everywhere.  They say if you can’t stand it, you should get out of the kitchen. I say this week gave us at least three more reasons why women need to stay in the leadership kitchen.

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Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Changing the WorkplaceGloria FeldtPowerTo, The Sum, UberComment