Your brilliant life starts now
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
Brianna Wu just wanted to make good games.
She co-founded the indie game development studio Giant Spacekat in 2010 with the mission of creating “stories for everyone.”
“I wanted to bring something to market where the women were the heroes, not an afterthought,” she explained. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Game Developer Brianna Wu
Every once in a while, someone comes along who can’t be real.
Like Susan Boyle, whose audition for Britain’s Got Talent broke the internet at over 100 million views in 10 days.
The most incredible performances come from those we dismiss outright. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher Täo Porchon-Lynch
Brené Brown was having a breakdown.
She’d gone to her therapist with an Excel spreadsheet. She had six weeks, she explained. She needed more of the traits on this list and less of the traits on that list.
“Nothing deep,” she added. “No childhood crap or anything.” [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Shame & Vulnerability Researcher Brené Brown
It’s your worst nightmare.
You wake up feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck. You go to the doctor and he tells you it’s your gallbladder.
You don’t have time to be sick. You’ve got a modeling and acting career to pursue. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor Kris Carr
When I get older, I want to be just like Dr. Northrup.
I used to want to be just like Helen Mirren. Beautiful and a dame and an Academy Award winner and still smokin’ hot in her 70s? Bring it on! [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Women’s Health Expert Dr. Christiane Northrup
What kind of woman would think she could beat Arnold Schwarzenegger?
It would take unbeatable confidence. Poise. Fearlessness. And a healthy dose of ego.
Ariana Huffington had it all … in spades. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Businesswoman Ariana Huffington
Imagine this:
You’re on the eve of publishing a brutally honest memoir about how you saved your marriage. Oprah loves it. Everyone predicts it will hit the top of the bestseller lists.
Then you’re at a conference … and you see someone across the room. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Blogger Glennon Doyle
Everything is “figureoutable.”
No matter what it is—a problem in your life, a situation you’re stuck with, or a dream that remains tantalizingly out of reach—you can figure it out. There is a way. It may not be obvious, and it may take some work, but don’t lose faith. [Read more…] about #BrilliantBabe: Entrepreneur Marie Forleo
