FREE MASTERCLASS: HOW TO “CARPE THE CHAOS” AND THRIVE

Issue 174 — August 2, 2021

A colleague once gave me a poster bearing the caption, “When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember your goal was to drain the swamp.”

Career success, Ambition / Intention, Leadership Power Tools, Women Career SuccessGloria FeldtAugust 2, 2021Take The Lead Event, career development, Gloria FeldtComment

Global Star Pianist, Composer Marina Arsenijevic Shines On Women’s Equality Day

Hers is a rhapshody in power.

Award-winning concert pianist and composer Marina Arsenijevic has spent a lifetime creating music and performances around the globe that offer healing and respite in times of conflict and recovery.

Career success, Ambition / Intention, Event, Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonJuly 28, 2021Take The Lead Event, intention, Women's Equality DayComment

Forging Solid Connections: CEO, Founder, Author on The Art of Connecting

Her mother would most definitely be proud.

Susan McPherson, founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, and author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships, has spent more than 33 years since her mother’s death building a successful career built on authenticity, integrity and clear communication.

Career choices, Ambition / Intention, Networking with Purpose, Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonJune 11, 2021Networking, intention, Communication, business womenComment

Power of Prioritizing: Latina CEO, Founder Advises, Inspires and Succeeds

Melissa Rodriguez, CEO of Mel Rodriguez & Co. and also Social Media Relations, was born and raised in the “witch city where everyone goes for Halloween.” That’s Salem, Mass., of course, where the history includes powerful and magical women.

Change Leadership, Career success, Ambition / Intention, Changing the Workplace, EntrepreneurMichele WeldonMay 28, 2021latina women, Female CEO, Entrepreneurship, Women In Business, marketingComment

All You Got: CEO, Founder On Creating The Relationship App Everyone Needs

Lesley Eccles does not gamble and is not particularly fond of sports.

ThIs may not seem remarkable for the CEO and Founder of Hello Relish, a relationship coaching company with a self-care and relationship app. But considering that Eccles and her husband, Nigel, were the co-founders of Fan Duel, the billion-dollar fantasy sports betting startup, it says a lot about her ability to separate work innovation from her personal life.

Ambition / Intention, Career choices, Career success, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonJanuary 29, 2021Entrepreneurship, Startup, business women, Career SuccessComment

Can You Be Positively Rude? How To Shift The Dynamics

Throughout history, very few women have avoided the rudeness label for speaking up and speaking her mind on important issues.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Change Leadership, Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonJanuary 8, 2021Comment

2021 Planner: 6 Steps To Make This Year Your Best Yet

The good news is 2020 is over. Even better news is that for 2021, it is possible to jump in and design the year you intend to have with purpose, deliberation and intention.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Gender Parity, Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonDecember 31, 20202020, New Year, Progress, Career GoalsComment

A Force Together: Founder, CEO Shares Tips For Working With Millennials, GenZ

Courtney McKenzie Newell in 2011 named her first agency Crowned Marketing & Communications, where she is founder and CEO because she was a crowned beauty pageant winner as a student at Florida International University.

Winning Miss Palm Beach County, and later competing in Miss Florida as part of the Miss American pageant series, McKenzie Newell says, ““I took that money and started my business and paid homage to where ti came from.”

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Career choices, Changing the Workplace, Entrepreneur, Women Career Success, Women Career ChoicesMichele WeldonOctober 23, 2020Marketing, Women In Business, Women Leaders, Millenials, powerful women leadersComment

Soledad O’Brien Explains Why Management of Energy is Your Essential Career Growth Skill

Issue 145 — October 18, 2020

A physicist friend once told me that everything in the world is ultimately just energy particles. In my non-scientifically trained mind, I visualized tiny pieces of matter dancing around amiably and without focus.

While my friend was referring to the physical world, the principle that everything is ultimately energy applies as well to leadership and to our individual career arcs. That’s because everything we give our time and attention to takes — energy.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Career choices, Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par...Gloria FeldtOctober 18, 2020Journalism, 50 Women In Journalism, Career Sucess, How women can advance their careers, career goalsComment

All They Can Save: Women Climate Leaders, Founders Collaborate To Save The World

An Adrienne Rich poem inspired the title for the nonprofit, All We Can Save Project.

“My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed/ I have to cast my lot with those/ who age after age, perversely,/ with no extraordinary power,/ reconstitute the world.”

“That is my drumbeat. To have truth, courage and solutions, the trifecta,” says Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist, policy expert and founder of Urban Ocean Lab, who also co-founded All We Can Save with Dr. Katherine Wilkinson, author and editor-in-chief of Project Drawdown.

Change Leadership, Movement Building, Leadership/Organizational, Inspirational Role Models, Changing the Power Par..., Ambition / IntentionMichele WeldonOctober 12, 2020Inspirational Leaders, inspirational women, Women Leaders, Women and Politics, climate change Comment

1 Hour To Inspire 1 Billion Girls: CEO Rupa Dash on World Woman Hour

Growing up in rural eastern India, Rupa Dash would be the first girl in her family to get an education.

“The biggest dream girls would ever see and what she deserves is to find somebody or your parents find somebody who would own a truck and you would get married,” says Dash, co-founder and CEO of the World Woman Foundation, with the mission that “Equality for women is progress for all.”

That is an audacious success for someone who as a young girl explains, “I literally never get out of my home and played outside.”

Ambition / Intention, Entrepreneur, Inspirational Role Models, Women Career Success, Mentors and SponsorsMichele WeldonOctober 9, 2020inspirational women, Inspirational Leaders, Mentorship, career path, women entrepreneursComment

Big Wisdom From Small Companies: 10 Women Biz Owners Share Their Keys To Success

October is Women’s Small Business Month, so Take The Lead honors the 11.6 million women small business owners in this country who are earning $1.9 trillion in revenue and employing 9.1 million people. Every day 825 women launch small businesses in the United States.

Yes, the numbers tell a story of perseverance and success. One quarter, or 20 % of all companies with $1 million in revenue are women-owned, with 39 % pf all small businesses owned by women. The fastest growth areas are Florida, Georgia, Texas, Michigan and South Carolina.