At her first job after graduating college in 1990 at Walden Books, Monica Smith, CEO and founder of Marketsmith, would walk into one of their stores filled with books and magazines and feel overwhelmed.
“It would become my best tool,” says Smith, who was severely dyslexic since childhood and was not able to read effectively until she was 18.
Read MoreIssue 153 — December 14, 2020
This week Jupiter and Saturn will be observably closer to each other than they have been since and they won’t be as close again until 2080. This is a phenomenon not to be missed! The clearest view will happen on my wedding anniversary and the winter solstice, December 21. How cool is that?
Read MoreThe Merriam Webster dictionary defines badass as “informal + sometimes offensive : ready to cause or get into trouble” as a noun. As an adjective, informal + sometimes offensive as in “of formidable strength or skill such a badass guitar player.”
Read MoreImagine a calendar of women chosen for their brains and not their beauty. You don’t have to imagine it: the makers of the 2016 Pirelli calendar—a calendar that, as the New York Times put it, has long been known as an “arty soft-core ode to pinups”—just made it a reality.
Read MoreTheodore Roosevelt once wrote, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” At a time when we, as Americans, should be celebrating Serena Williams’s Wimbledon victory, we are reading and talking about her body. We are comparing her body shape and size to other women in the sport. We are printing articles about what Williams, herself, has said to criticize her own body in the past. And, as we continue to beat the topic and perfect the art of comparison, we are robbing her, as well as anyone else who follows, of the opportunity for joy. The joy of sweet victory.
Read MoreDo you know HowTo envision? HowTo build? HowTo scale, build alliances, understand data, grow a team? And above all: HowTo succeed?
The Women 2.0 HotTo conference is jam packed with “high-impact speakers ready to share their stories and successes, panels sharing insight into real-world strategies, and mentorship sessions offering real-time coaching.”
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