The Sum
The Big RE Secret for Solving Women’s Pay and Debt Gaps
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.
Read MoreCome Celebrate 8 With Me: Free Birthday Concert for Women’s Equality on August 25
There’s a reason Marina Arsenijevic’s story is the longest in my book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and Why Women Will Take the Lead for (Everyone’s) Good. She’s the archetype Intentional Woman and the role model for Leadership Intentioning Tool #2: Dream UP, because if your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough.
It would take a mighty big dream to scare pianist and composer Marina.
Read MoreAlex.
The world lost a one-of-a-kind man on July 17 when my beloved husband Alexander Barbanell died following a two-week hospitalization for pneumonia and multiple infections that were too much for his 91-year-old body to overcome. He was just two weeks shy of his 92nd birthday, August 1.
Read MoreThe #1 Leadership Strategy for Your Company in Times of Controversy (Read #RoevWade)
Issue 203 — June 27, 2022
The United States Supreme Court ignited a political and social firestorm by overturning Roe v. Wade on June 24, the last day of its 2022 session.
Read MoreWhat is your Big RE?
What is your Big RE?
We have spent the last couple of years in an environment of deep disruption and uncertainty. Now, we are living in a revolutionary time. A time that surrounds us with change, transformation, and all the REs.
Your opportunity is now!
Read MoreEqual Rights: It’s Now or Never
Issue 201 — June 5, 2022
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” said founding father John Adams. Yet in a classic demonstration of unearned privilege, he mocked his wife Abigail’s plea to “remember the ladies” when framing the Constitution. John averred that men would never put up with that “tyranny of the petticoat.” As if one person’s freedom reduces the other person’s freedom, when the exact opposite is actually true.
Read MoreTo Stop Uvaldes and Buffalos, Start by Changing the Narrative of Power
Issue 200- May 30, 2022
I need to write about power this week.
I’ve spent the last decade teaching women the difference between thinking of oppressive power OVER and generative, creative, and innovative power TO so that we can get over our culturally learned ambivalence about power that is a key barrier to women’s advancement.
Buffalo: Leaders Must Rise to The Challenge
Issue 199 — May 23, 2022
First, say their names: Margus D. Morrison, 52; Andre Mackneil, 53; Aaron Salter, 55; Geraldine Talley, 62; Celestine Chaney, 65; Heyward Patterson, 67; Katherine Massey, 72; Pearl Young, 77; and Ruth Whitfield 86. On behalf of all of us at Take The Lead, we mourn the loss of their lives and stand in solidarity with their loved ones.
Read MoreThanks for Taking Time for You
Issue 198 — April 27, 2022
Within minutes after we concluded the virtual Take Time for You event on April 23, Jen Koeller wrote this note to me:
Hi Gloria,
I was very excited to attend today’s Take Time for You event because it spoke to me on many levels.
Read MoreIt’s My Birthday and I’ve Got a Gift for You (Hint: Don’t Stress)
There’s no one right way, but as you’ve often heard, be sure to put on your oxygen mask first or you won’t be able to be there for others either. To help you deal effectively, be kind to yourself by taking time to do the things that help you. You can start by joining Take The Lead on April 23 for a free virtual event from 2-4 pm eastern, designed to give you two hours of pure recharge.
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