Intentioning Democracy: 5 Power Moves Only You Can Make

Issue 256 — April 8, 2024

Women who fear they are losing hard won rights and leadership opportunities often ask me what to do about a world in which they see their daughters having fewer voting rights, equal rights, and reproductive rights than they have had.

So when I spoke on April 3, 2024 to the San Antonio 100, I tackled that question by starting with lessons from our history, inspiration that comes from knowing their power, and challenged them to make five power moves to shape the future they want.

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Creativity Makes Change: Power Up Concert Performers Deliver

“Just give us a chance for the next 2,000 years and we will clean it all up,” Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, told the enthusiastic crowd at the recent Power Up Concert closing out the recent 2023 Conference, “Lead Your Intention.”

Speaking about the mission of Take The Lead to reach gender parity in leadership across all sectors by 2025, Feldt said, “Get involved at the local level;, that’s how you make the change with intention. It’s fun to be part of what is going on in your community.”

Women Career Success, Take The Lead EventsMichele WeldonSeptember 22, 2023Power Up Conference, Kathleen Turner, ChangeComment

Overcome Fear: Face The Future With Power, Intention & More Key Strategies from Power Up Conference

“Fear is an opportunity. Challenges are part of every life journey—in work, business, relationships, challenges are opportunities for growth,” says Homaira Kabir, founder of The Goodbye Perfect Project and a women’s leadership coach.

Career success, Career choices, Event, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonSeptember 15, 2023Power Up Conference, Leadership Tools, Gloria FeldtComment

Honoring The Power In All of Us: Power Up Conference & Concert Delivers

“Intention is a pipe dream unless you put action to it,” Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, told the enthusiastic live and virtual participants at the fourth annual Take The Lead Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day in Los Angeles at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.

Delivering the 2023 Leading Company Award to Angel City Football Club and its CEO and co-founder Julie Uhrman, Feldt says, “I believe Angel City is literally changing the world for women in sports and the business of sports.”

Angel City Football Club Transforms Women's Sports - and the Movement for Gender Equality

Issue 240 — September 4, 2023

Philosopher William James called sports “the moral equivalent of war.”

That’s an inherently patriarchal lens on sports. Everything in that framework is about power and power in turn is about war and fighting, with the assumption that someone has to win, someone has to lose, and there’s no in-between.

The SumGloria FeldtSeptember 4, 2023Women in Sports, Power Up Conference, ParityComment

Moving To Equality: Power Up Conference A Critical Success In Intentioning for Equity, Access, Partnership

“We need to move to keep movements moving,” Laura Vega, Power Up Conference Chair and Associate General Counsel & Senior Director, Legal Affairs of MicroVention, Inc., told the robust live and virtual audience in her welcome greeting at the recent Power Up Conference & Conference on Women’s Equality Day.

Introducing Gloria Feldt, the powerhouse behind the day’s events, as well as co-founder and president of Take The Lead, Vega says, “She is such an inspiration and role model.”

Taking the stage with an enthusiastic crowd of leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, managers, media leaders, students, writers and philanthropists, Feldt says, “In order to make big systemic change, we need to be big, be bold and be out there.”

Change Leadership, Career successMichele WeldonSeptember 1, 2023Power Up Conference, Women's Equality DayComment

Shouldn't It Be Called Women's INequality Day?

Issue 239 — August 28, 2023

Last night, attending an Angel City Football Club soccer game (they won 3–1!), I had a tearing up moment chatting with a woman I happened to be standing next to. She had come down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to bring her two elementary school aged daughters to the game. She said, “Can you imagine? We never got to see anything like this. The women’s team, owned by women, run by women, supported by so many women?”

I looked at her girls cheering away, waving their Angel City scarves, and felt so proud of how far we have come on the long road to equality.

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Winning Leadership: Take The Lead’s Award-Winners To Shine At Power Up Conference

They are all in the fight to win. And when gender parity in leadership arrives, everyone wins.

Because of that dedication to the mission of fairness, equity, gender parity and inclusion, these four exceptional leaders—Angel City Football Club’s Julie Uhrman, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine’s Kathy Spillar and Darnell Moore—are each duly honored at the 2023 Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day that coincides with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C.

Fair is fair and these award-winners are fairly acknowledged and celebrated.

Career success, Event, Gender ParityMichele WeldonAugust 25, 2023Power Up Conference, Kathleen Turner, awards, Leading Man AwardComment

Agenda Revealed! Just 5 Days till the Power Up Concert and Conference!

Are you ready for the much anticipated event? It’s just 5 days until the big day — Women’s Equality Day on August 26, that is, when we will gather for a full day of the Power Up Concert and Conference. Not even hurricanes or earthquakes will keep Take The Lead from delivering this powerful annual event in Los Angeles at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center and streaming everywhere in the world. I cannot wait to see you there!

Have you secured your ticket?

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Women Build Wealth: Why, How, and Now Panel

True confession — I went through most of my career without thinking about why and how I should be building wealth for my own life and my children. I was just glad to have work I felt passionate about and a paycheck (for which I didn’t know to negotiate!) deposited in my bank account. But now I’m at a stage of life where it would be really nice to have been more intentional about my finances.

Does this sound like you? Are you more astute than me and looking to grow your wealth, but not sure how? Are you unsure about your financial goals but want to learn from and be inspired by women who can provide the insights you need?

JOIN US AT THE WOMEN BUILD WEALTH: WHY, HOW AND NOW” PANEL!

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Women's Influence: Leading Man Award-Winner Darnell Moore on Activism, Equity and Healing Power of Access

Since the very beginning, Darnell Moore has relied on a community of women in his “huge” family with his mother, aunts, grandmothers, sisters and cousins contributing to his recognition that gender equity was absent and that everyone across identities needs to support each other in truth, healing and power.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, EventMichele WeldonAugust 18, 2023Leading Man Award, Power Up ConferenceComment

Announcing! Take The Lead’s 2023 Honorees: Angel City FC, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine, Darnell Moore

It is with deep admiration for each of these extraordinary honorees: Angel City FC, Kathleen Turner, Ms. Magazine, and Darnell Moore, that we look forward to recognizing at the Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference on August 26, in person at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA and available virtually wherever you are in the world!

Tickets are going fast — do you have yours locked in?

Take The Lead EventsGloria FeldtAugust 18, 2023Power Up ConferenceComment