How To Invest When You Feel Like You're Behind: 6 Ways To Save Now

There’s a Chinese proverb that says: “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best is today.” The same can be said of saving. The best time to start is 20 years ago —or even before you were born—the second best is today.

Today, almost everyone understands the importance of saving for the future — whether it’s retirement, a down payment on a house, or children’s education expenses. Unfortunately, just thinking about saving money doesn’t actually work. You have to start somewhere, but most people don’t know where the starting line is.

Career success, Finance/Money, Life tools and tipsDock David TreeceMay 19, 2020Tools and Tips, Investing, Retirement, life lessonsComment

Vision, Focus, Transparency: CEO in Education Offers 6 Lessons on Leading Now

Growing up in Cincinnati, Kristyn Klei Borrero says the desegregation of local schools there gave her a view of K-12 education that “was not monolithic” and steeped in “white kids’ privilege.”

It would fuel her career as CEO and co-founder of CT3, a coaching services company dedicated to improving curriculum across the country by coaching and training educators creatively and serving more than 1 million students in the past 12 years.

Women Career Success, Leadership tools and tips, Change Leadership, Career success, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonMay 11, 2020Leadership Tools, Role Models, Leadership Training, Career Success, Coaching, Leadership LessonsComment

What Day Is It? 7 Keys To Maintaining WFH Focus During COVID-19

Is it Tuesday or Thursday? Are you mixing up your days of the week working from home?

Due to the COVID-19 shelter from home mandate for millions now working remotely from home, the challenges of isolation, distractions, interruptions, family duties and more are crossing the lines literally from work and home.

Changing the Workplace, Women Career Success, Life tools and tips, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonMay 8, 2020How women can advance their careers, Workplace Culture, Life Advice, Work Advice, Leadership Tools, Covid-19, CoronavirusComment

Leading In Chaos: How Resilient Are You?

Millions of us are testing the limits of our own strength—physically, emotionally, mentally—whether in isolation, working from home or facing the enormous challenges of essential work and the multi-dimensional threats of COVID-19.

Life tools and tips, Take The Lead Events, Women Career Success, Changing the Workplace, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonMay 1, 2020Coronavirus, Mental Health, Take The Lead, Women Leadership, How women can advance their careers, Covid-19Comment

At Your Service: The Strategies and Shelter You May Need

Take The Lead is available for inspiration and tools as you shelter in place with resources you can watch, read and listen to now. More than a month in, with most everyone in the country quarantined and working remotely or at social distances, it is fair to say everyone in the country is affected by COVID-19. Many report the economic and emotional burden is higher for women.

Change Leadership, Inspirational Role Models, Leadership tools and tips, Life tools and tips, Networking with Purpose, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonApril 3, 2020Coronavirus, Women Leadership, Take The Lead, Gender Issues, Women Equality, How women can advance their careers, Covid-19Comment

You Go First: Salary Transparency Almost Closes Gender Pay Gap

The good news if you are a woman working in healthcare, architecture, engineering, education and a few other industries is that pay equity is the norm when your organization has pay transparency. The bad news is if you are a female in food services, retail, customer service, transportation and a few more male-dominated fields, you will likely be paid less than men doing the same job.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, Parity, Tools and Tips, Women Like You, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonJanuary 28, 2020Pay Gap, Pay Transparency, Salary Transparency, Parity, working womenComment

It’s 2020: New decade, old secrets from the trail of life.

Issue 118— January 20, 2020

It was a gorgeous Arizona Sunday, not yet two weeks into the new year and the new decade. The 2020s. I love that nice round number. I was lighthearted, with the sense of optimism I get at such a time, when it seems like the slate is clean and the future open to our intentions.

Inspirational Role Models, Leadership tools and tips, Life tools and tips, The SumGloria FeldtJanuary 20, 2020Kindness, Power Tools, Leadership, 2020Comment

New Year, New Motivation: 8 Keys To Engaging Your Team

Many of us are facing down strategic plans for the new year. But beyond goal setting is the real task of managing teams that can consist of varying levels of – ahem, enthusiasm. It’s no secret that teams can consist of highly motivated go-getters and what some call in academia, coasters, as well as strategic players who do the absolute minimum in order to slide by with low effort and little buy-in.

Career success, Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tips, Leadership Power ToolsMichele WeldonJanuary 17, 2020Motivation, Strategy, Leadership Power Tools, Engagement, PurposeComment

They Can See Clearly Now: Co-Founders Launch Inclusive Eyewear Brand

Florence Shin and Athina Wang want you to know they are absolutely not sick of each other. The co-founders and creators of Covry, a brand of handcrafted eyewear they launched in 2015, have been besties since high school class of 2009, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, as the two most interested in fashion in their larger group of friends.

Career success, Life tools and tips, Entrepreneur, Leadership tools and tipsMichele WeldonJanuary 13, 2020Startup, women's entrepreneurship, Inclusivity, Women In Business, AdviceComment

So Convincing: Persuasion Author’s 6 Tips To Get Others On Your Side

Persuasion had to start early in life for Lee Hartley Carter, author and president of maslansky + partners, a global language strategy firm based in New York with the tagline, “It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear.” Growing up the first daughter in a New Jersey family where her mother and most all female relatives stayed home to raise children, Carter says she still has to answer the question, “What do you mean you’re still working?”

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Change Leadership, Leadership tools and tips, Life tools and tips, Media, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonJanuary 6, 2020Persuasion, Communication, Empathy, Women Leaders, ArgumentationComment

Press Pause: Co-CEO Offers 3 Life Lessons For The New Year and Forever

At 34, Tania Luna has already held 30 jobs. Now co-CEO at LifeLabs Learning, the author, who also co-founded Surprise Enterprises, attributes her resilience to a complicated life viewed with gratitude and surprise. Luna thought the Brooklyn homeless shelter she and her family lived in during the early 90s was a hotel. They had arrived in New York when she was five years old from Ukraine seeking asylum after the devastating Chernobyl accident in 1986.

Change Leadership, Ambition / Intention, Changing the Power Par..., Inspirational Role Models, Life tools and tips, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonDecember 17, 2019Female CEO, Inspirational Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Success, Career AdviceComment

Fierce Feminist: Author Linda Hirshman On History's Reckoning

Linda Hirshman credits her Cleveland junior high public school teachers for helping make her who she is. The prolific author, lawyer, retired esteemed university professor and feminist thought leader says, “I had very radical teachers in my public school and when you are 12, 13 and 14, your teachers feel like a real source of truth to you.”