Issue 249— January 1, 2024
I loved this question posed on social media by Sophia Yen, a longtime friend and the founder of Pandia Health. She asked us to “Brag to me about one thing you did in 2023.”
Take a minute and think about your answer.
Read MoreIssue 248 — December 18, 2023
Oftentimes well-meaning men ask me how they can help women to advance in their careers.
I answer, “Listen. Just listen.”
Now comes a breathtaking example of what can happen when men don’t listen to women:
Read MoreIssue 247 — December 11, 2023
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” — Alice Paul, suffragist leader and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, which a century later still is not published into the U.S. Constitution.
Read MoreIssue 246 — November 27, 2023
No doubt you have noticed that Giving Tuesday 2023 is today, November 27. I’m challenging you to share what’s on the shirt of your convictions about women’s leadership.
My personal favorite shirt is historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s well-used quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” But today I’m wearing the shirt designed by Michael Stars for this Giving Tuesday.
Read MoreIssue 245 — November 20, 2023
Scrolling social media, as I do far too much, I saw this post:
Read MoreIssue 244— November 30, 2023
On Thursday morning, October 26th, in the sunny Arizona desert setting, my heart was full of joy because my nonprofit organization, Take The Lead, committed to intersectional gender parity in leadership, had finally risen from pandemic setbacks to launch a cohort of our most powerful and impactful leadership program. It’s called 50 Women Can Change the World, and this cohort is our first for entrepreneurs.
Read MoreIssue 243— October 9, 2023
Given world events today, it’s fair to ask: Would history unfold differently if gender equality were the norm?
This week we’ll tackle that question of world history through a gender lens.
Read MoreIssue 242 — October 1, 2023
No, not October surprises like in politics, where they’re always bad news. We don’t need those.
These FREE juicy morsels of practical information to use and inspiration to lift us up, served up in brief, engaging chats, will spice up the fall without the calories of pumpkin spice lattes. Though feel free to sip one while joining us for these conversations.
Read MoreIssue 241 — September 25, 2023
📢 Attention Entrepreneurs: Are you an aspiring, budding, or seasoned founder? Regardless of where you are in your journey, this snippet from the “Women’s Health Through the Lifecycle” panel that took place at Take The Lead’s Women’s Equality Day Power Up Concert and Conference is meant for you:
Read MoreIssue 240 — September 4, 2023
Philosopher William James called sports “the moral equivalent of war.”
That’s an inherently patriarchal lens on sports. Everything in that framework is about power and power in turn is about war and fighting, with the assumption that someone has to win, someone has to lose, and there’s no in-between.
Read MoreIssue 239 — August 28, 2023
Last night, attending an Angel City Football Club soccer game (they won 3–1!), I had a tearing up moment chatting with a woman I happened to be standing next to. She had come down to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to bring her two elementary school aged daughters to the game. She said, “Can you imagine? We never got to see anything like this. The women’s team, owned by women, run by women, supported by so many women?”
I looked at her girls cheering away, waving their Angel City scarves, and felt so proud of how far we have come on the long road to equality.
Read MoreAre you ready for the much anticipated event? It’s just 5 days until the big day — Women’s Equality Day on August 26, that is, when we will gather for a full day of the Power Up Concert and Conference. Not even hurricanes or earthquakes will keep Take The Lead from delivering this powerful annual event in Los Angeles at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center and streaming everywhere in the world. I cannot wait to see you there!
