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New WFH Income: 7 Ways To Monetize Your Quarantine Hustle

Most everyone I know has an income shift or even income elimination due to the shelter in place mandate due to COVID-19. So many in event planning, retail, hospitality, restaurants, and pretty much anything that requires other people and is considered non-essential have been laid off, or their income streams have dropped.

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Quarantine Creative Distractions: Try Writing To Save Your Life

If only you had the time to write. Maybe now you just might.

Millions across the country are WFH—working from home—and have been for the past several weeks. They will be sheltering in place for several more weeks or months perhaps during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many at the same time are e-schooling children, caring for family members and partners.

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What Makes For a Successful Remote Learning Experience? 5 Tips For Teaching Online

Remote learning has exploded in the COVID-19 era.

Those new to the process may sometimes understate the work that goes into developing an online course. “It is much more than transcribing written courses into PowerPoints,” says Gloria Feldt, who has led dozens of remote learning classes as the co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a non-profit dedicated to gender equality, and as a long-time professor at Arizona State University. “To be worthwhile, it has to be much more nuanced, especially if the experience is to be successful for the student.”

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Listen Up: Binge On Scores of Helpful Podcasts

We hear you at Take The Lead, that your world has turned upside down personally and professionally in the past month due to the COVID-19 crisis. It has put us through some changes too. But Take The Lead wants you to know we have the content you need to get you through this.

Absolutely we hope you and your loved ones are healthy and we don’t dare diminish t he severity of this global pandemic. Take The Lead acknowledges the severe disruptions to your daily life and your career.

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Close The Dream Gap: Miracle Entrepreneur Mentors With Purpose

“My name is Miracle, because I am one.”

Miracle Olatunji, 20, and a sophomore at Northeastern University in Boston, has launched more startup ideas and done more to mentor others, than most people twice her age. And her name comes from the fact that her mother was bedridden when she was pregnant with her in Nigeria, and was told her baby would not survive.

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Sizing Up Inclusive Needs: Co-Founder and Designer Makes It Fit

One size does not fit all.

Tanya Zhang is filling a fashion void with her new clothing line of shirts. But it is not for herself or other women, but for her spouse, father, and other Asian American Pacific Islander men who swear their shirts don’t fit.

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Equal Pay Day: Working For Pay Parity In Tech And Beyond

Fourteen years into the commemoration of Equal Pay Day—or the day in the U.S. that all women catch up to what men earn for a year of work ending December 31, 2019—and women are still strategizing for pay equity.

It’s not a done deal. Yet.

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Be Who You Are: 4 Tips From Hair Care Product Founder On Natural Answers

“Be bold. Be Bomba. Be who you are.” This is Lulu Cordero’s mantra. The founder and creator of Bomba Curls, took a turn from her pre-med studies to economics at the University of Chicago, back to her Dominican Republic roots to develop a hair care company that celebrates the natural beauty of women.

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Each For Equal: Take The Lead Aligns With Missions of International Women’s Day

It’s time each of us moved toward making equality a global reality, collectively and individually. Later this week on March 9, International Women’s Day turns 109 years old, defined as a “global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women - while also marking a call to action for accelerating gender equality.”

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The Power of Truth: Advocating For Women’s Mental Health & Strength

Many women may dream about having a fictional drama made about their lives; but Kelley Kitley is actually doing it. This is no ordinary vanity project. Kitley, psychotherapist, author and owner of Serendipitous Psychotherapy, next month begins production on a short educational film, “Gray Area,” on women’s mental health and substance abuse, based on her award-winning 2017 memoir, My Self: An Autobiography of Survival.  

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No Try, Do: Founder Entrepreneur Offers Tips on Success  

Some entrepreneurs have a knack for turning personal needs into great ideas, and then turning those great ideas into huge successes.

Stacey Blackman, founder of Stacy Blackman Consulting, the Blacklight Channel and Stryke Club, is just that entrepreneur.

While she has been reaping rewards professional for two decades, early on, she was deterred.

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A Band of Sisters: Leading For Confidence And Solutions For Working Moms

The middle of three sisters raised in Bloomfield, Michigan, Lori Caden always knew sisterhood was a key part of her life. Indeed, sisterhood would drive her professional success and be a factor in her helping other women entrepreneurs launch their business dreams.

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