Get Active: MD, Co-Founder, Power Up Conference Speaker on Your Power and Bodily Autonomy

Sophia Yen, MD, is not wearing her uterus necklace today.

It is a mere oversight perhaps, because most days, the CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, the world’s only women-founded, women-led/doctor founded, doctor-led birth control delivery company, dons the jewelry reminder as a way to “respect the womb. We all owe the womb for our existence.”

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It’s Your Turn, Now What?

There is a fire that erupts when women REmember who they are AND know that it’s their time to step up and fully own their authority to lead.

Yes, ’m talking about you because you are that woman!

You are the woman that The Big RE Conference was created for because we know that on the other side of spending two days immersed in the power-packed agenda we have in store for you, you are going to leave knowing what it takes to…

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Hear Your Own Voice: 2022 Leading Woman Carla Harris on How To Recreate Your Career

Carla Harris has been with Take The Lead from the get-go.

The acclaimed and celebrated Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, author, leader, professional singer and philanthropist was with Take The Lead at its 2014 launch and will accept the 2022 Leading Woman Award this year at the Power Up Conference: The Big RE August 25-26.

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Zooming In: Top Strategies For Better Remote Meetings

According to a Strome College of Business study, more than 92% of remote workers experience “Zoom Fatigue,” which does not bode well for overall team productivity. 

There are a few reasons that online meetings are not as effective as in-person meetings: there’s less real-time feedback; many online meeting attendees do not use sound or video; and multitasking takes over.

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6 Reasons Now Is The Time To Power Up For Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate Your Career

The summer of 2022 marks the third summer of COVID-related work complications for millions of women from remote work adjustments to childcare urgencies to workplaces shutdowns, reorganizations and layoffs.

The National Women’s Law Center reports that between February 2020 and January of this year, 1.1 million women left the workforce. Some reinvented themselves as entrepreneurs, others reshaped their lives outside of their careers. Research shows this cultural time, space and economic reality supports shifts that not only bring change, but transformation.

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Your Vision Is Impossible If It’s Stuck in This

It is impossible to be the change you want to see if you are stuck in one Big RE. That RE is REsistance.

REsistance is one of the unspoken differences that separates world-class leaders from everyone else. If you want to stand out from the sea of sameness, you must be willing to get unhooked from resistance.

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Celebrate The Pivot: Evite CMO on Building A Brand, Changing Careers Post-COVID

Maybe, just maybe, Karen Graham can attribute her new career as vice president of marketing and brand for Evite back to her mom who loved to throw parties when she, her younger brother and older sister were growing up in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

“I’ve always loved events, I’m very social, but I haven’t thought before that my mom loved throwing parties. She went big for birthday parties. So something rubbed off on me,” says Graham, who is in charge of rebranding Evite, the 24-year-old online invitation platform.

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Taking Action: How Best To Lead In The Post-Roe Workplace?

Regardless of where the top tier leaders in an organization stand personally on the U.S. Supreme Court revocation of abortion rights in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, employees, contractors, consumers and clients will be affected. Some will be affected severely and most will be women.

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A Few Tips to Shake Things Up!

We’re not going to belabor the ‘stuck in your comfort zone’ thing but after our last email, we would be remiss if we didn’t pop in and share a few tangibles ways to break free from the grips of your comfort bubble. (-;

If you're truly ready to take steps away from your comfort zone, here are some tips that can
help.

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