Posts Tagged ‘Gloria Feldt’
Announcing 9 Ways in 9 Weeks: The No Excuses Way To Embrace Your Power
Women make 78 cents for every $1 men earn? The gap is even greater for unmarried women, who make 58 cents for every $1 men earn, and for women of color, who earn 1/3 less than men. Women spend 80% of US consumer dollars. Yet they make up only 15% of corporate boardrooms where decisions are made about what will be sold to consumers. Women are the majority of voters in the US, but just 17% of Congress. There are many reason for these imbalances. But frankly, there are No Excuses any more.
Please join me in the new discussion of “9 Ways in 9 Weeks: The No Excuses Way to Embrace Your Power.” In the coming weeks, we’ll be exploring each of the 9 Ways or power tools I discuss in No Excuses. I’ll post about one of the 9 Ways each week, and I invite you to share your ideas, thoughts, and especially your stories about that power tool in your own life. There will be new video clips each week too, and other new materials and bonus items not necessarily found in the book.
This week I’m most eager to know your thoughts about these knotty (not naughty!) questions:
Read MoreJoin Me in DC for a No Excuses Reception
RH Reality Check, United Nations Foundation, and Women’s Campaign Forum are co-sponsoring a reception to celebrate the release of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power. The reception will be held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 13th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Check out my Upcoming Events page for more details. If you plan to attend please send your RSVP via email to unfevents(AT)unfoundation(DOT)org.
Jodi Jacobson has this to say over at RH Reality Check:
Feldt employs a no-nonsense, tough-love point of view to expose the internal and external roadblocks holding women back, but she doesn’t place blame; rather, she provides inspiration, hope, and courage — as well as concrete “power tools” to aid women in securing equality and justice for themselves — articulated with personal warmth and humor. In an era where women outnumber men in universities, reproductive technologies have changed the power balance in personal relationships, and women are closer than any previous time in history to earning on par with their male counterparts, No Excuses is a timely and invaluable book that intends to help women equalize gender power in politics, work, and love.
If you can’t make the event in DC, be sure to check out the Upcoming Events page for a No Excuses book event near you! I hope to see you soon!
Read MoreBack By Popular Demand: WomenGirlsLadies at UMKC
| WomenGirlsLadies made a return visit to UMKC last week, thanks to the invitation from Women’s Center Director Brenda Bethman. Rather than a single event, this year’s Starr Symposium featured a series of community conversations about the “Work/Life Balance in a Woman’s Nation. Deborah Siegel, Courtney Martin, Kristal Brent Zook, and I kicked off the event with our WomenGirlsLadies panel, where we provided intergenerational perspectives on work and life choices.
“Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them,” was just one of the points that resonated with the crowd. |
 Immersed in conversation about when we felt powerful |
Here’s what Rita Arens has to say about the event over on BlogHer:
I tend to lack a governor. I would write myself into an early grave if it weren’t for my family.
Balance, which I’ve written about before, is tough whether or not you live with other people. I don’t think for one minute that single people don’t have balance issues — in fact, if I were living alone, I would actually have more balance issues than I do now, because I would have to depend on myself to tear me away from the blinking screen . . . I am trying lately to avoid using myself up.
Rita came up to me after the panel and told me that she wished she had had someone like me to talk to when she was 15. I told her that I wish I had had Gloria Feldt to talk to when I was 15!
Here’s what Talyn Helman has to say in her Young Feminist’s Point of View.
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Countdown to Publication 7 Days Out: Greyhounds and Prelaunch Strategies
This was posted today at SheWrites.com as part of my Countdown to Publication series.
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done to sell your books?
I hadn’t ridden a Greyhound bus since I was 14, traveling across Texas with my friend Elsie to visit my grandmother. But there i was last Sunday, rolling along from Burlington VT to Boston because it was impossible to get to my meeting in Boston any other way today.
I squeezed in an appearance at the Burlington Book Fair yesterday. I didn’t quite “move a mountain of books” as Ric, the Fair’s ebullient organizer, had promised, but I spoke to a roomful of enthusiastic participants, signed a goodly number of books, and many of the women said they planned to visit my website to find out more about the 9 Ways. Plus the spirited conversation at last night authors dinner was great preparation for objections I’m sure to encounter when I talk publicly about women’s relationship with power and why I think women must change how we think about power in order to reach parity in any of our lifetimes. (Check out my book trailer to see stats that will set your hair on fire.)
I was fresh from my first book event back in Arizona, an elegant Northern Trust Bank book tea. It was the perfect cultivation event for their high net worth clients and ideal for me as the author because they buy books for attendees. I want more venues like that and am seeking contacts to pitch at other banks. Selling books in multiples is much more fruitful than one at a time.
Read MoreNo Excuses News: 9 Ways to Help
Thank you, friends and supporters of women’s fair share in power and leadership! No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power hasn’t even officially launched yet, but your enthusiasm for its message has already put it onto Amazon’s top 100 books on leadership and women’s issues lists.
The book has also been named to its first top 10 list by NYC Resident.
And, remember my website angst? My new site is up and running, and I’m thrilled with it. Please take a peek and let me know what you think.
While you’re there, view my book trailer that shows why we need to spread the 9 Ways far and wide.
And you can download the free 9 Ways Power Tools summary and use them to add “power to” in your own life.
No Excuses is moving right along
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On my travels, I’ve had a chance to tell groups how the 9 Ways Power Tools can help women continue moving forward, past all barriers, to lead unlimited lives–so that both men and women can thrive. And I need your help to get the message out farther and wider.
So here are, guess what: 9 Ways You Can Help
Listen to Gloria on Head Over Heels
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Women’s Relationship to Power
Burlington Book Festival: Burlington, Vermont
The Burlington Book Festival was the second stop on my book tour. It was an honor to appear with authors like Peter Galbraith and Ann Hood. You can read more about it in the Burlington Free Press.
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Left: Signing books after my presentation at the Burlington Book Festival, I met this amazing women who told her “power to” story: younger sister to five brothers, she told her mother she wanted to be a scientist. Her mother told her her brothers could become doctors and she could be a nurse. She persisted and became a scientist, one of few women in scientific research at the time. Her power to moment came when the men she worked with attempted to take the credit for her findings. She insisted that they give her equal billing–and they did.
Center: This woman is unlimited. She’s founder and CEO of a wind power company. Maybe the female Bill Gates is on the way?
Right: You can’t get there from Burlington except by Greyhound. After speaking at the Burlington Book Fair, I took the bus for Boston to attend a Jewish Women’s Archive board meeting.
Read MoreBook Signing and Keynote Speech at Northern Trust Bank
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Left: Michelle Robson was a rock star when I interviewed her at the Northern Trust book event about starting EmpowHer.com. Read more about the interview at EmpowHer.com.
Right: My first No Excuses book signing!
Read MoreCountdown to Publication: Queries!
Goddess willing and the crick don’t rise, my long- delayed website—the one I’ve been angsting about on these pages for several weeks–will soft launch Friday 9/24 and be fully public by the date of my next newsletter blast 9/28. (If you want to sign up for my newsletter, by the way, just e-mail me.) Check back next week for the urls. (Hooray! Corks about to pop!)
Meanwhile…are you signed up for HARO? It stands for Help a Reporter Out. Three times a day, you get queries from a wide array of media outlets. It takes a bit of sifting through, but I’ve secured several worthwhile media opportunities, and connected with some terrific women’s topics reporters like Liz O’Donnell. You can also sign up as a journalist and issue queries for your articles, books, or blogs. Check it out.
Peter Shankman, who started HARO, usually ends his opening speil with “Queries!” And, SheWriters, my Countdown this week is all about my queries for you.
I’m creating a blog dedicated to discussing the “9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power” that I have written about in No Excuses. Will you help me prime the pump with your answers to my queries?
You can respond to any questions that resonate with you in comments section below. I’ll pop your comments onto my website as soon as it’s ready. Feel free to include a link to your book or website so I can help you spread your word(s) too.
Ready? Queries!
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