From Lucy to Leadership Part 2: Our Origins’ Central Question

Issue 252 — February 11, 2024

Last weekend, I went to see the movie I think should win Academy Awards in every category: Ava DuVernay’s rendition of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

After writing last week about the discovery of the 3.2 million year old hominid fossil Lucy in Hadar, Ethiopia 50 years ago by paleoanthropologist and founder of the Institute of Human Origins Donald Johanson, I wanted to explore further the question of why we humans are the way we are.

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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Issue 251 — February 5, 2024

What is more fascinating to us humans than ourselves?

Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror? Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Don’t we love seeing our names mentioned, or being tagged on Instagram? Come on, admit it.

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In This Together: The Power of a Movement

Issue 250— January 15, 2024

Re-print: Originally Published January 21, 2019

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The two movements that have shaped my life converged this long weekend.

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🚀 Fuel the Future: Champion Women’s Leadership in 2024

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.

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Just Listen: The Secret Power of Conflict and Controversy

Issue 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:

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When Leadership Requires Keeping Your Hand On the Plow

Issue 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.

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Wear the Shirt of Change: Representing the Power of Women's Leadership This Giving Tuesday

Issue 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.

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Why Women’s Leadership Is The Secret To Family Economic Security

Issue 245 — November 20, 2023

Scrolling social media, as I do far too much, I saw this post:

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Why I Couldn’t NOT Say This

Issue 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.

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Tiffany Shlain Creates Femonology: Don't Miss This October Surprise!

Issue 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.

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Your October Surprises From Take The Lead

Issue 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.

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Unlocking Success: The Secret Every Entrepreneur Should Know

Issue 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:

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