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Not an April Fools’ Joke: 😇 Smell the Pivotal Blessing
Not an April Fools’ Joke: 😇 Smell the Pivotal Blessing

The delicately sweet aroma of citrus blossoms brought back a powerful sensation as I stepped outside of my Arizona home this April Fools’ Day.

It was the scent I’d first experienced on this exact date: April 1, 1978.

I had taken a late evening flight from my Odessa, Texas home to Phoenix the night before, following a quick trip to a department store to buy a proper suit for an interview that had come a year sooner than my intentions.

On the morning of April 1, I stepped out into the bright Arizona sun.

The unfamiliar scent permeated the air. It wasn’t harsh or cloying, more like a softly perfumed pillow around me. I thought I had landed in some sort of paradise.

Little did I know my life would take a pivotal turn, which I have ever since associated with the aroma of citrus blossoms.

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Inspire: Take The Lead..., The SumGloria Feldtwomens equality, gender equality, womens leadership, reflections, career pathComment
Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity
Thank Heaven For 11: Take The Lead Celebrates 11 Years Working Toward Mission of Equity

Take The Lead is 11 years old this week on February 19. Eleven years ago, Gloria Feldt and Amy Litzenberger co-founded the organization with the bold mission of society reaching leadership gender parity across all sectors by 2025—this year.

For the past 11 years, Take The Lead has been working towards achieving gender and race equity in leadership across all sectors and industries. In that time, Take The Lead has been making enormous impact affecting hundreds of thousands of women in their careers and lives.

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Take The Lead Events, Inspire: Take The Lead...Michele WeldonLeadership Power Tools, gender parity, Racial Equity, Equity, AnniversaryComment
On Banning Ideas, Finding Your Tribe and Winning the Prize 
On Banning Ideas, Finding Your Tribe and Winning the Prize 

Picture this: It is 1972. I am a student in a relatively progressive suburban public school system, one in which the chorus sang excerpts from “Hair,” (I still know all the words to “Age of Aquarius”), but Home Economics was only for girls and Wood Shop for boys.  

 Along comes a new magazine: Ms. It challenges the patriarchy and traditional roles. It shakes up the status quo. It does not conform to “expectations.” 

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Inspire: Take The Lead...Take The LeadLeadership, Gender Parity, Equality, Anniversary, Womens Equality, Ms. MagazineComment
Good Grief: Assist Colleagues, Customers, Clients, Friends, Family After Disasters
Good Grief: Assist Colleagues, Customers, Clients, Friends, Family After Disasters

It’s the signature of Susan B. Anthony that Ellen Snortland cannot replace, along with so much else lost in the devastation brought by the California wildfires that destroyed her home in Altadena.

 But it is the support and comfort she has received from her friends in her 50 Women Can Change The World in Media & Entertainment, a Take The Lead cohort in 2017, that uplifts her.

 “The 50 women should be called 50 angels,” says Snortland, a journalist, author, actor, writer, producer, director, lawyer, coach, advocate and counselor. After her home was completely destroyed, Snortland says, “They stepped right up, with Nancy de Los Santos leading the charge; They Venmo’d me a nice chunk of cash immediately.” De Los Santos is a screenwriter and member of the 50 Women cohort.

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Community Building, Inspire: Take The Lead...Michele WeldonDisaster Relief, LA WildfiresComment
Silent Auction Spotlight: Jewelry Exec Director Shines In Family Business
Silent Auction Spotlight: Jewelry Exec Director Shines In Family Business

Visiting Rome after college and viewing the masterpieces of 17th century sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini proved to be a career shift for Maria Soldier, executive director of Alex Soldier, an international jewelry enterprise created by her father.

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Career choices, Changing the Power Par..., Inspire: Take The Lead..., Mentors and Sponsors, Take The Lead EventsMichele WeldonTake The Lead Teaches, Silent Auction, female entrepreneurs, executive director, Michele WeldonComment
Three Lessons to Make the Women’s March Worthwhile
Three Lessons to Make the Women’s March Worthwhile

I’ve marched in and organized many marches.  So I supported but wasn’t planning on going to DC for the January 21 Women’s March, feeling good that younger women were rightly leading this time around. As the time grew nearer, Take The Lead’s Leadership Ambassadors created an Action Party event that grew just as the Women’s March itself was growing beyond all expectations. I had to be there—for our event and in solidarity with the millions of other marching women and men around the world.

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Ambition / Intention, Changing the Power Par..., Inspire: Take The Lead...Gloria FeldtMovement building, Women, women leaders, Women's March, Women's March on WashingtonComment
The State of The Women: Where Female Entrepreneurs Stand Today
The State of The Women: Where Female Entrepreneurs Stand Today

Celine Dion, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Toni Braxton ruled the pop charts while “Forrest Gump” and “The Lion King,” drove movie ticket sales. It was 1994 and also the year the U.S. government declared the goal of awarding 5 percent of all contracts to small businesses owned by women.

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Inspirational Role Models, Inspire: Take The Lead...Michele Weldonfemale entrepreneurs, gender parity, Leadership, Women and Leadership, Women's LeadershipComment
Listen Up, Women Leaders: The Voice in Your Ear Says, “You Can Do This”
Listen Up, Women Leaders: The Voice in Your Ear Says, “You Can Do This”

Here’s the management truth many of us know too well: We’re promoted because of our track record as front line employees. Our job skills are strong, so they put us in charge of the work. That’s when we discover we need a whole different set of skills, because we’re not just managing work, we are leading people, a responsibility that is complicated and challenging, worrisome and wonderful – and rarely easy.

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Inspire: Take The Lead...Jill GeislerAuthentic Leadership, management, pay equity, Women and Leadership, Women and Power, women leaders, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, Women's LeadershipComment