Issue 243— October 9, 2023
Given world events today, it’s fair to ask: Would history unfold differently if gender equality were the norm?
This week we’ll tackle that question of world history through a gender lens.
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Issue 241 — September 25, 2023
📢 Attention Entrepreneurs: Are you an aspiring, budding, or seasoned founder? Regardless of where you are in your journey, this snippet from the “Women’s Health Through the Lifecycle” panel that took place at Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference is meant for you:
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Issue 237 — August 7, 2023
I break out in a cold sweat when people say the word “event.”
There are so many moving parts to putting on a valuable and memorable conference — and why would you do one if it weren’t valuable and meaningful? The logistics alone break my head, and there are always dozens of opinions about who to invite to speak and perform, where to have it, what to have for lunch — you name it.
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You will be wowed from the start. That is the intention.
Take The Lead’s Power Up Conference & Concert on Women’s Equality Day, “Lead Your Intention,” offers a full day of keynotes, panels, roundtables and sessions with acclaimed speakers, leaders, founders, consultants, entrepreneurs and authors —all with the mission to help you achieve your career and life goals with specific strategies, alliances, information and insights.
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Issue 225 — April 9, 2023
Thank you for supporting Take The Lead! You make this essential work for gender parity possible. As a donor, you deserve to know what your gifts accomplish. We’ve been heads down doing the work — delivering training, creating valuable leadership content, and planning exciting new programs. Here’s a brief update for 2023 so far. I’d love to elaborate if you want more information, and I’ll be happy to take your questions, ideas, and comments. Please send them to me here.
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Issue 222 — February 20, 2023
I love this phrase from Susan Wojcicki’s letter, announcing she is stepping down as CEO of YouTube: “It’s an incredibly important time for Google — it reminds me of the early days — incredible product and technology innovation, huge opportunities, and a healthy disregard for the impossible.” (Emphasis mine).
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Issue 212 — November 28, 2022
If you sent that check — it came last week without information as to the donor — to Take The Lead, thank you! This post will be published to coincide with Giving Tuesday so whoever you are, your timing could not be more perfect.
I just posted the message below on my personal fundraising page for Giving Tuesday:
I co-founded and am devoting this phase of my life to Take The Lead (www.taketheleadwomen.com) because its training, coaching, role models, and thought leadership have been proven to provide women with the very tools they need to embrace their power and elevate their ideas about what they can achieve in their careers and personal lives.
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“Marina Tore the Damn House Down”
— Felicia Davis , Leadership Brand Strategist Founder of BlackWomanElevate
NEW YORK, NY, USA, September 3, 2022
EINPresswire.com — MARINA’S BOMBASTIC PERFORMANCE to be REBROADCAST on her YouTube channel premiering on September 1, 2022.
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Issue 205 — September 5, 2022
Something doesn’t compute here, I thought, when I saw a well-meaning but laughable piece of advice to women in an Ad Council campaign in collaboration with AARP.
“Save a larger percentage of your income for retirement,“ it tells women, and cites the data that women are 80% more likely than men to be poor in their old age. “Save 2% more than you are currently saving,” goes the advice.
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“Let’s all raise our voices together for women’s leadership parity. There’s a lot of power in speaking up together. It’s time.”
Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead with co-founder Amy Litzenberger, made that bold declaration eight years ago at the launch of Take The Lead. This was a 2014 event for participants in person at Arizona State University, and also live streaming to 42 countries and an aggregate audience of one million.
Watch more in Take The Lead on the Launch Event
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Issue 202 — June 20, 2022
On the second national Juneteenth holiday, I am reposting what I wrote last year in recognition of this day in American history. The unfinished business of equality remains the same even though public awareness of the day is much greater, if overcommercialized. The Big RE Concert and Conference: REthink, REwire, REcreate will give you insights and tools you can use right away to address these and many other leadership and life issues. REgister here now — early bird ticket prices have just been announced!
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Is your comfort zone holding you back?
Look, trust me, I know it can sometimes be hard to acknowledge that we’re the ones responsible for making progress (or lack thereof) in our lives, but the good news is we can unlearn that behavior in order to get out of our own way.
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