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Let’s Disrupt Women’s Equality Day
Let’s Disrupt Women’s Equality Day

Issue 63 — August 26, 2018 Hold onto Bella’s hat, mind Alice’s admonition, and follow Sojourner’s truth. It’s Women’s Equality Day again. Again. August 26. First so designated by the 1971 legislative initiative of the inimitable NY Congresswoman Bella Abzug to commemorate

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Gloria FeldtAugust 26, 2018feminism, gender-equality, sojourner-truth, Women, womens-equality-day
Persistence On Parity: CEO Creates A Culture of Gender Equity in Digital Agency
Persistence On Parity: CEO Creates A Culture of Gender Equity in Digital Agency

For the tough conversations in her 800-person company, Ansira, CEO Daina Middleton, says she established code language “to get real.”

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Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonAugust 24, 2018Career, CEO, Change, Michele Weldon, women in the workplace, women leadersComment
Get It Done: When Will Women Have True Equality in U.S.?
Get It Done: When Will Women Have True Equality in U.S.?

We get it that this is not Iceland. Iceland is No. 1 on the “World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, which ranks 144 countries based on how close they are to achieving gender equality,” Melissa Jun Rowley writes in Forbes. The U.S. ranks 45th. “According to the Global Gender

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ParityMichele WeldonAugust 21, 2018Equal pay, equality, Michele Weldon, Women's equality day, womens movementComment
Show Me The Way: Splash VP Offers Tips on Being Best Mentor and Mentee
Show Me The Way: Splash VP Offers Tips on Being Best Mentor and Mentee

Sometimes the worst example offers the best lesson.

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Tools and TipsMichele WeldonAugust 20, 2018business, Career, mentor, mentorship, Michele WeldonComment
How did you get to be you? 3 Aspects Shared by Women Leaders
How did you get to be you? 3 Aspects Shared by Women Leaders

Stop. Before you read further, take one minute to answer this for yourself. How did you get to be you?

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Gloria FeldtAugust 20, 2018crazy-rich-asians, feminism, gloria-steinem, Leadership, womens-equality-day
Crazy, Rich? IRL Asian American Women Fight Bamboo Ceiling to Succeed
Crazy, Rich? IRL Asian American Women Fight Bamboo Ceiling to Succeed

“Crazy Rich Asians” is a critical hit and a box office stunner with $34 million in box office receipts the first week reaching broad audiences as the sleek Hollywood adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel directed by Jon M. Chu with an Asian cast.

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MediaMichele WeldonAugust 17, 2018Asian Women, film, Michele Weldon, race, women in film, women of colorComment
Open The Door: Female Filmmakers Win At Telling Their Stories
Open The Door: Female Filmmakers Win At Telling Their Stories

It was six short films (including two animated works) in one evening of spectacular possibility.

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ParityMichele WeldonAugust 14, 2018Career, Change, equality, film, Michele Weldon, women in filmComment
Find Your Inner Spa: 5 Ways To Relax on Relaxation Day
Find Your Inner Spa: 5 Ways To Relax on Relaxation Day

If I had a dime for each time someone remarked that I look tired or stressed, I would have, well, a lot of dimes.

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Tools and TipsMichele WeldonAugust 13, 2018Michele Weldon, national relaxation day, self care, women leaders, Work/Life BalanceComment
What Color Were Dorothy's Shoes?
What Color Were Dorothy's Shoes?

The book that taught me I could be a leader

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Gloria FeldtAugust 12, 2018books, feminism, gender-equality, Leadership, Women
Money Does More Than Talk: Take The Lead Launches 50 Women Can Change The World In Finance
Money Does More Than Talk: Take The Lead Launches 50 Women Can Change The World In Finance

“Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society,” Candace Bushnell, author and creator of the Sex and The City franchise, reportedly said.

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EventMichele WeldonAugust 10, 201850 Women Can, 50 Women Can Change The World, 9 Power Tools, events, Gloria Feldt, Michele WeldonComment
Give Yourself Credit: Co-Founders Work To Close The Information Gap
Give Yourself Credit: Co-Founders Work To Close The Information Gap

Most people get credit wrong.

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Tools and TipsMichele WeldonAugust 7, 2018female entrepreneurs, Finance/Money, Michele Weldon, partnership, Tools, women in the workplace Comment
Passion to Action: 5 Ways to Know if You're an Entrepreneur
Passion to Action: 5 Ways to Know if You're an Entrepreneur

Do you dream of starting your own business?

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Gloria FeldtAugust 6, 2018business, entrepreneurship, feminism, gender-equality, Women
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Every theory about falling birth rates points to women.

Women are too educated. Too free. Too focused on careers. Too burdened by structural barriers.

Gloria Feldt went looking for the theory that asks what men are doing differently. She couldn't f You walked out of that meeting certain something happened.

By the time you got to your desk, you were already replaying it. Editing it. Looking for the part where you misread something.

And by the time you opened your laptop, you'd fully talked you She didn't wait for permission. She built the table.

@gloriafeldt is the Co-Founder & President of Take The Lead, global expert in women's leadership and DEI, bestselling author of five books, and Forbes 50 Over 50 honoree. Her latest: Intention She doesn't ignore what she sees. 

She doesn't adjust herself to fit what doesn't make sense. 

She doesn't wait for someone else to initiate change.

Meet Amelia Pittner, Community Champion with the 50 Women Can Lead The Change program, and the wom You edited yourself before you spoke.

You softened the ask. Swallowed the pushback. Waited for a better moment that kept not coming.
And at some point the editing became automatic. You stopped noticing you were doing it.

That is not professionalism The meetings got scheduled. 

The reports got sent. 

The team stayed intact.

Nobody asked how.

What's the last thing you did at work that nobody noticed, and what would have happened if you hadn't done it? Emma Grede says "I don't think people wake up thinking about me."

That's not arrogance. That's clarity.

Most women spend enormous energy managing other people's perceptions of them at work. Editing themselves. Softening. Waiting to be see
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