Are You the One Who Sent The $2000 Check?

Issue 211 — November 21, 2022

If you sent that check — it came last week without information as to the donor — to Take The Lead, thank you! This post will be published to coincide with Giving Tuesday so whoever you are, your timing could not be more perfect.

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Six (Nonpartisan) Leadership Lessons from the 2022 Elections

Issue 210 — November 14, 2022

I believe so strongly that #votingisleadership that I created a hashtag for it. Civic engagement is in my view a critical part of leadership. We are all shaped by our communities and so must be part of shaping them.

Politics, as political scientist Walter Truett Anderson defined it, is the clash of uncertainties from which social realities are constructed.

Goodness knows that several big uncertainties in the cultural zeitgeist are clashing.

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How Do You Go from Grief to Joy?

How do you go from grief to joy?

This week I write about how the examples of recent moments of communal grief–the 21st anniversary of 9/11 and the death of Queen Elizabeth II—can inform us as we grapple with personal grief. And I share a phone call that helped me process my grief by creating a lasting legacy in memory of my husband, and the resulting joy. Read the full story here…

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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.

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Come 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.

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Alex.

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.

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Thanks 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.

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It’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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How Would You Like an Extra Million Dollars?

Issue 194 — March 21, 2022

That’s a no-brainer, right? But I’m serious. Studies have shown that women lose between $400,000 and over $1,000,000 cumulatively over a lifetime of work in comparison with men in equal jobs with equal experience. You deserve to be paid fairly and equally to others with your qualifications.

Equal Pay Day was March 15 this year. Saying that women make on average 83 cents to men’s $1 is an oversimplification because there are huge variances based on race and ethnicity.

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