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Wear the Shirt of Change: Representing the Power of Women’s Leadership This Giving Tuesday
Issue 246 — November 27, 2023
No doubt you have noticed that Giving Tuesday 2023 is today, November 27. I’m challenging you to share what’s on the shirt of your convictions about women’s leadership.
My personal favorite shirt is historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s well-used quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” But today I’m wearing the shirt designed by Michael Stars for this Giving Tuesday.
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Issue 245 — November 20, 2023
Scrolling social media, as I do far too much, I saw this post:
Read MoreTiffany Shlain Creates Femonology: Don’t Miss This October Surprise!
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.
Read MoreYour October Surprises From Take The Lead
Issue 242 — October 2, 2023
No, not October surprises like in politics, where they’re always bad news. We don’t need those.
These FREE juicy morsels of practical information to use and inspiration to lift us up, served up in brief, engaging chats, will spice up the fall without the calories of pumpkin spice lattes. Though feel free to sip one while joining us for these conversations.
Read MoreUnlocking Success: The Secret Every Entrepreneur Should Know
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:
Read MoreAngel City Football Club Transforms Women’s Sports — and the Movement for Gender Equality
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.
Read MoreShouldn’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.
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?
Rock Out for Women: Join the 2023 Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference!
Issue 238 - August 13, 2023
You might have heard the saying, if I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution. I certainly agree with that.
We’re thrilled to invite you to the most anticipated event of the year! Learn, connect, and be inspired by the conference all day, and then kick back with a night of great music and entertainment:
2023 Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference, on August 26, 2023!
Why I Hate Events and Why We Do Them Anyway
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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