Voice, Impact & Playing Bigger
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 [...]
“Beginning in 2006, players at the US Open were allowed to challenge judges on a limited number of questionable calls, thanks to video replay. When a player challenged a call, the video supported the player’s view 30% of the time. This held true whether player male and female. So, all players had a strong incentive [...]
It’s a little thing, but it’s a big thing: the word “just.” “I just want to add something.” “I just have a question.” “I just think that we are going about this the wrong way.” Compare how those sentences sound to how these sound: “I want to add something.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I think it’s fair to say that, collectively, we women are officially in trouble when it comes to our relationship to our bodies: 70% of normal-weight women report wanting to be thinner. A UK study found that 91% of women are dissatisfied with their hips and thighs. And perhaps even more troubling, 54% of girls [...]
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 [...]
