Your brilliant life starts now
Who’s running the world now?
Strong women everywhere are breaking barriers and paving the path for our future. Despite many hurdles, both visible and invisible, female leaders push on with grit and determination. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Ashley Graham walked into a department store.
She wanted to treat herself. As she perused the Valentino and Roland Mouret [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Curvy Supermodel Ashley Graham
She founded a billion dollar company. She has her own Wikipedia page. She’s been on the cover of Forbes. Her wedding was featured in Vogue.
And she was no slacker in college, either, studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and working with orphanages in Southeast Asia. [Read more…] about #Brilliant Babe: Entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Regena Thomashauer was finally divorced.
She’d given her engagement ring back to her ex-husband, even though she could have sold it for a few thousand—money her lawyer knew she needed. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Pleasure Revolutionary Mama Gena
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The first female presidential candidate ran on a platform of pleasure. (Nope, not Hillary Clinton!)
Her name was Victoria Woodhull, and she believed in the scandalous proposition that women had the right to leave loveless marriages. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Suffragette Victoria Woodhull
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I can’t say I have been intimidated by anyone.”[1]
How many of us can say that?
But Serena Williams said it. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Mother (& Tennis Star) Serena Williams
After facing death, facing Michelle Obama was no challenge.
Still, Amy Sherald said, it was stressful.
Her portrait of the former First Lady would make history. Could she stand up to the pressure? [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Painter Amy Sherald
What’s your life going to look like at 70?
I can imagine sitting in an armchair, reading. Looking out the window at my beautiful garden, which I have all the time in the world to tend.
With any luck, I’ll have grandchildren who come over and eat my freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Model Maye Musk
This is the story of how a little girl named Heaven started the Me Too movement.
No, it didn’t start with Harvey Weinstein.
It didn’t even start in Hollywood.
It started with a camp counselor who couldn’t find the words to tell a little girl she wasn’t alone. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Activist Tarana Burke
I wake up every morning and put on makeup.
I didn’t used to. The most I used during my teens and 20s was some tinted lip balm.
But there came a point in my 30s when I didn’t look like me anymore. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Makeup Guru Bobbi Brown
