Washington, DC – March 7, 2013 – The Hot Mommas® Project has awarded Tinu Abayomi-Paul a Women’s Leadership Fellowship, a position designed to create exponential benefit to women and girls. The announcement comes in concert with International Women’s Day, 2014.
Like many others, first time I heard of the Hot Mommas Project, I wanted to join it. At the time, I didn’t think I had an exciting enough story to tell that could be entered in the case library competition. And by the time I did? The experience was so raw I had problems getting it down to the required number of words in time. But I digress. Coming… Read More »On Becoming Your Editor
Research shows that around age 11, girls can begin to experience deficits in what is called “self-efficacy.” In layperson’s terms, this is the feeling of “I can do that.” It doesn’t stop there. As the instructor of a nationally award winning women’s leadership course, I’m called into corporations where I hear about…well…grown up versions of “Mean Girls.” Is there a connection to that 11 year-old?
Miley Cyrus’ VMA 2013 Performance – did you see it? There are two camps:
1. Amazing, because everyone is talking about it.
2. Atrocious, because it was inappropriate.
Business shout-out aside, Miley is now blacklisted for my seven year-old daughter. But does my belief system for my daughter make it inappropriate for her to gyrate or be otherwise outrageous on stage? C’mon, we all know plenty of stars act nutty everyday.
Here’s the real reason people can’t stop talking about this:
Why you think you are watching Orange is the New Black: There is an upper middle class girl who went to Smith who was put in a Federal penitentiary. Holy …!
Why you keep watching Orange is the New Black: The women – with a few, exceptions – find their inner strength against all odds. They find it together. They find it on their own. They find it. It’s awesome.
What parts were particularly impactful to you? Do tell.
Today Stan Faryna got me thinking about my Twitter moniker: @ChiefHotMomma.
A) The truth is, I’ve never been crazy about it. For people who know me – it’s very “not me.”
B) But, as I explain to Stan – below – it’s not about me.
RuPaul said it best: Work It Girl
I just read tech.co 15 Top Accelerator Programs in the US. We at the Hot Mommas Project are big fans of Accelerator programs for women-owned businesses because it provides access to:
1. Structure
2. Support and, often,
3. Capital
Janetta was a star employee. Two years ago she had been hired by her contracting firm out of a top school. She spoke a foreign language. She was assigned all the top projects. She was promoted. But in her new role, she encountered the most unlikely of push-back: From her trainer.
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.
The story was sad. Anne-Marie Slaughter loved her dream job as director of policy planning at the State Department. But after protracted periods of leaving her two sons and husband at home five days each week while she was in Washington, she realized it wasn’t working.