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Interesting Stuff Round Up: Communication and Gender, Stress, #IWD2021, and More

Here is an email hot off the presses to members of our classes on Teachable. Interested? We thought so. Especially since one of our favorite topics (communication and gender) is included below. Side note: For some reason, we feel the featured image for this must be chocolate. This somehow makes sense to us. Women’s Leadership Friends! Hope you are having a great weekend. I just wanted to share a free,… Read More »Interesting Stuff Round Up: Communication and Gender, Stress, #IWD2021, and More

Kara Vanderpool Ward, caregiver, marketing executive, CEO, and advocate for Working Daughters Day

Kara Vanderpool Ward – CEO, Marketing Exec, and Caregiver – Advocates for 23 Million Women

Where Would We Be Without Caregivers? Think about it. Seriously. Right now. Did you know that family caregivers (largely women) provide $470 billion in unpaid care each year? This is the topic of award-winning case author Kara Vanderpool Ward, caregiver, marketing executive, CEO, and advocate for Working Daughters Day (#WorkingDaughtersDay): Kara Outlines the Caregiving “Varsity Juggle” (We Are Starting to Get the Working Daughters Day Advocacy.) Thanks Kar. “If only my… Read More »Kara Vanderpool Ward – CEO, Marketing Exec, and Caregiver – Advocates for 23 Million Women

Caroline Adams Miller & Caroline Miller Coaching LLC; Will the Real You Please Stand Up?

INTRODUCTION: The hot television lights burst on us one at a time.   “Number One, what is your name please?”  The question thundered through the cavernous studio. “My name is Caroline Miller.” Number two introduced herself the same way.  Then it was my turn. “Number Three, what is your name please?” “My name is Caroline Miller.”  It was the summer of 1990 and my life had now become fodder for a… Read More »Caroline Adams Miller & Caroline Miller Coaching LLC; Will the Real You Please Stand Up?

Lucrecer Braxton; Creative in Pursuit of Perfect Imperfection

I am a wife and mother of three I started the Art Slam about a year and a half ago to help me cope with a difficult working situation. I was suffering from daily headaches and felt sick to my stomach everyday. Sundays were the worst day of the week for me because I knew I had to get up the next morning and go into a hostile working environment… Read More »Lucrecer Braxton; Creative in Pursuit of Perfect Imperfection

Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Panel March 9 (streaming available)

March 9, 2020 George Talks Business at the George Washington University School of Business, Monday, March 9, will feature a Women Entrepreneurs Panel with Kathy Korman Frey, founder and CEO of the Hot Mommas Project, U.S. Army Major Jade Root, MBA ’17, and Anna Stewart, MBA ’14, founder and owner of Gaucha Chica, LLC. For more information, please email Irina Orlova. Can’t attend in person? Please register below and tune in… Read More »Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Panel March 9 (streaming available)

Coach Kathy Wilson: On Self Acceptance

I truly saw everything that made me different as an asset instead of a liability. It was the first time I truly embraced that everything about me, every struggle, every challenge, every setback and every unique attribute that I had previously seen as negative was part of a quilt that made me a powerful woman.