Serving, Contribution, Calling
Jen Louden, Michele Lisenbury Christensen, Marianne Elliott and me at Jen’s writing retreat in Taos this summer. Photo by Christa Gallopoulos. One of my dear friends and mentors is Jen Louden. I started reading her books when I was about 14, and my copy of her best-seller The Women’s Comfort Book is so well-loved [...]
I wanted to share a little more about my experience of going on The Today Show. After all, it’s relevant. My work is about helping women play bigger, own their brilliance, come forward with their voices and share them. Going on The Today Show was a step toward playing bigger for me. I had not [...]
Yesterday I had the totally delightful experience of being on the Today Show with Hoda and Kathie Lee. Here’s the clip! If you are reading this over email click HERE to get the clip. (I apologize, you will have to watch an ad from MSNBC before the clip. Possibly an ad about Downy or Cover [...]
Wednesday is a big day for me. I’ll be going on the Today Show, talking to 2 million viewers about women owning and claiming their brilliance in the world. Whew. Ack! Yay! Feeling all of those. Am I a little nervous? Yes. Also very excited and ready for a fabulous time! Good [...]
There have been so many remarkable moments in this week’s Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. A sampling of twelve of them: 1. Could Have Been Me I think the thing that really gets to me the most with this is the fact that the twelve year-old girl in the video could have been me… I, as [...]
Today is the first day of the week-long Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. I think most of you know by now (but in case you don’t), I created the blogging campaign to mobilize bloggers to write about girls in the developing world. About a year and a half ago, I first watched this short Girl [...]
As a civilization, we are coming out of centuries of harnessing the earth’s resources for greater productivity and material wealth. Well, we did what we set out to do: in many ways, we are much more materially wealthy. Yet, that wealth has been concentrated in the hands of too few. And our way of growing [...]
A few days ago, I came across this chart, and it took my breath away. It is difficult to find words to follow these statistics. It is difficult to know what — as a woman living in a different world — I can do about this reality. But of course, I’m [...]
I’m over at Huffington Post today, writing about one of the things I think we most need to do in order to heal the world. I really love this post. Sometimes it’s hard to put into words our most core beliefs. It’s hard not just to articulate them, but to even know what they [...]
This is your time. Your time to say what you have kept silent. Your time to ask your big questions without apology. Your time to shine like a blazing comet, whether they like it or not. Your time to believe what your heart tells you: that this world could be very different. Your [...]
