Happy 500! Take The Lead Delivers To You 500 Award-Winning Newsletters
This week marks Take The Lead’s 500th newsletter.
There’s the Fortune 500, Indianapolis 500 and now, Take The Lead Newsletter 500.
This week marks the milestone of 500 weekly newsletters sent to more than 14,000 subscribers in the last 11 years, covering the latest news, research, insight, trends, information and resources for leaders looking to take on the mission of racial and gender equity across all platforms and industries.
Explore the recent Take The Lead Newsletter Archive here
Feedspot this month continues to award The Take The Lead blog featured in the newsletter as #8 out of 35 of the best women in leadership blogs globally. According to Feedspot, “The Movement Blog shares various insights and resources with young women on how to understand and utilize the power of leadership tools to focus and implement their career goals, both in corporate and politics.”
“Take The Lead’s award-winning Newsletter hits the milestone of 500 weekly editions this week. #newsletter #information #leadership @takeleadwomen”
The Movement Blog also won first place in 2019 Chicago Journalists Association award for best blog in the competition. It is satisfying to write a topical blog on women’s leadership issues that is recognized locally and globally for its original take on the trends, challenges and issues facing women in leadership of various identities, ages, career levels and industries. Writing the weekly blog and putting together more than 450 of these 500 newsletters for the past nine years is rewarding as it feels both necessary and beneficial, personally and professionally.
Standing in the top 10 honors along with Girlboss and Psychology Today, Take The Lead’s Movement Blog, that has published more than 700 times in the history of Take The Lead, takes a center spot in the weekly newsletter. This is alongside Gloria Feldt, the co-founder and president of Take The Lead, who publishes her insights weekly in The Sum featured in the newsletter.
The goal of the weekly newsletter, which offers timely, information-backed, newsworthy content, also serves up the latest information on courses, trainings, webinars and events from Take The Lead, all connected to women’s leadership across generations and a Power To Change story from readers sharing their personal narrative on what they can change in the world.
“Our only agenda is to fuel your success which then fuels the collective success of people of all diversities and intersectionalities,” Feldt says. “ When you win, Take The Lead wins.”
Reaching the milestone of 500 newsletters, Take The Lead is part of a global trend. Newsletters by email are one of the fastest growing forms of content, according to Whop’s newsletter stats with an expected 4.73 billion email users by 2026 and 376 billion emails sent daily in 2025.
In 2023, there was a 700% increase in the number of newsletters worldwide, according to Beehiv. In that same year, 70% of publishers say newsletters are a key investment, as they are the most popular content form earning 58% percent of readership, compared to 51% who prefer articles and blogs and 30% who prefer to consume online courses.
“The newsletter’s goal is to keep subscribers updated with the latest useful #resources to improve their #careerpaths and stay informed on the latest strategies and developments for business, economic and #leadershipsuccess, personally and professionally. Subscribe here. #womenleaders https://www.taketheleadwomen.com/email-signup”
The newsletter’s goal is to keep subscribers updated with the latest useful resources to improve their career paths and stay informed on the latest strategies and developments for business, economic and leadership success, personally and professionally. Covering trends in AI, small business, entrepreneurship, and large corporations, the newsletter offers readers on multiple levels of career development the tools they need to succeed.
At a time when so much content is behind a paywall, Take The Lead’s newsletter is free to subscribers and is delivered each week by email on Tuesdays.
Each section of the newsletter is carefully cultivated and presented for the most efficient delivery of leading news—that is news about how to strategically lead in a swiftly evolving economic, political and social culture of change. All of it revolves around the founding principles of Take The Lead, the 9 Leadership Power Tools created by Feldt at the center of the organization’s mission and message.
The Movement Blog. Each week Take The Lead’s editorial director offers a topical issue affecting those identifying as women, whether it is bias and microaggression in the workplace, or how to communicate to a team with empathy and compassion, and not rudeness or insincerity. Each piece has links to more than 15-20 outside resources of studies, sites, experts and data for further explanation.
The blog also highlights profiles of leaders and authors in the news from National Organization of Women President Christian Nunes to author Heather Cox Richardson, Take The Lead board chair Lily McNair and entrepreneurs and policymakers in the spotlight. From navigating changing dress codes to pivoting from COVID halts and starts, the Movement Blog helps subscribers cope with real tools and information, not just talk.
Gloria Feldt: The Sum. Whether offering lessons she learned as a teen mother, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, or co-founder and president of Take The Lead, Feldt walks readers through inspirational moments that deliver on strategies and tools whether from her inclusion in Forbes 50 Over 50, a journey to Ethiopia, the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, or conversations with close, powerful friends including Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Turner and scores more, Feldt’s insights are priceless and candid. And sometimes result in a shared recipe.
Power To Change Stories. These unedited 300-word testaments to an individual’s journey to address and provoke change on a major issue in their lives, communities and the world, show what intention and purposeful actions can meaningfully accomplish. Everyone is welcome to submit a Power To Change Story. The more than 150 stories from readers, subscribers and participants in Take The Lead events and offerings offer their personal insights on what they have been able to transform, why and how.
Submit a Power To Change Story here.
How To Power Up This Week. A recent addition to the newsletter, this one-word directive offers an option for action to take the during the week and why.
Courses, Events & Trainings. Announcements, dates, key information and links to the latest Take The Lead webinars, courses, podcasts, Power Up Conferences, local in person and global virtual events fill this section so readers can take action immediately. There are links to register to the latest offerings.
Quote of The Week. A topical insight from a leading woman on the topic of the week’s newsletter summarizes the call to action or takeaway on a hot topic.
Eye-Opener Of The Week. This new addition to the newsletter offers a condensed summary of a breakthrough study released that week, with research and data on women’s leadership that will shift how people think, behave and consider issues related to gender parity and leadership.
Yes, 500 is a noteworthy milestone and Take The Lead celebrates it’s accomplishments for the weekly newsletter and intends to double the number of subscribers in 2025. Subscribe to Take The Lead here. The newsletter is the messenger of Take The Lead’s bounty of offerings, resources and information, all with the mission to help achieve gender and racial equity in leadership across all industries by accessing and utilizing the power you already own.
““You already have more power than you might realize. Our job is to give you the tools, show you how to use them and then set you free to conquer your world.” #leadership #content #careerstrategies @takeleadwomen ”
“You already have more power than you might realize,” Feldt says. “Our job is to give you the tools, show you how to use them and then set you free to conquer your world.”
