Serving, Contribution, Calling
Today I’m delighted to bring you a conversation with my friend and mentor, Jen Louden. Jen’s work has spanned many topics dear to my heart: women and comfort, retreating, creativity and writing. Recently, she’s been turning her attention to teaching – helping women like you and me own what we have to teach and to [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of going on The Today Show. This was my third time as a guest on the show. – hey, I’m almost becoming a regular! Like everything in life, it gets more comfortable the more I do it. Here’s the clip (Note, the video is a little funky. If it’s [...]
one more post on the expert thing. i notice that many women want to teach about or speak about or write about something, but think they can’t do that until they’ve mastered the thing themselves. it sounds something like this: “i want to help women who struggle with overeating, but how can i do that [...]
Here’s Part 2 of my chat with Pullitzer prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman. (Read Part 1 here). TARA: Let’s talk more about social change because you’ve both written about it and taken time to study it. I’m curious about what your understanding is of how social change happens and how that is informing how you have [...]
Well, she is one of the most widely read US women columnists in the United States. She has the ability to sum up a whole movement, a whole era, or a complex reality with a single, perfect line. Recently I had the honor of sitting down with remarkable woman Ellen Goodman. You can listen to [...]
I was sitting outside at a pool party chatting with a woman from Switzerland — soft-spoken, impassioned, about 80. Her husband of 50 years, she explained to me, had died seven years before. She’d played a very traditional “wife” role for five decades, but when he died, she had to learn to live independently. She [...]
What difference can be made by one person, one voice? On the issues you are most passionate about, can your one voice really make a difference? We’ve all wondered about this at one time or another. I think you’d be surprised by what the scientific research has to say about it. I was. Let’s go [...]
It is my great, great pleasure to share with you today a conversation with Marianne Williamson. Marianne has been one of the most significant teachers in my life. She is a brave advocate for love, a counter-cultural thinker, a spiritual teacher. She truly embodies what it means to be a leader. I’ve been reading her [...]
Hey there, Earlier this month I wrote a post about 3 big lies about careers/callings/contribution that I see women falling for again and again – to the major detriment of their careers. Time to stop the lies, people!! Is one of these 3 holding you back? You can find out just what they are here. [...]
What do you want to teach? What message do you want to share with the world? Do you ever feel like you just aren’t sure how to start teaching? Or how to take your teaching to the next level? A couple years ago, I signed up for a course co-created by Jen Louden & Michele [...]
