Your brilliant life starts now
Rebecca Traister wants you to get good and mad.
“In the United States, we have never been taught how noncompliant, insistent, furious women have shaped our history and our present, our activism and our art. We should be,” she says. [Read more…] about Do Women Have the Right to Get Mad?
Everyone makes mistakes.
The wrong boyfriend. A career misstep. A bad investment. A lipstick that looked good in the store until you brought it home.
Some people can laugh their mistakes off. They realize that nobody is perfect and move on.
I’m NOT one of those people. [Read more…] about How to Deal with Mistakes if You’re a Perfectionist
What does it take to be a survivor?
Danielle Derisse has gone through more than any of us can ever imagine. She was sold by her Haitian father, raised in an orphanage during a time of civil unrest, told her parents were dead, and then adopted by an American family. [Read more…] about A Survivor’s Story with Danielle Derisse (video)
Our society tends to mold and shape children into tamed, domesticated adults.
We’re taught from a young age that there’s a certain plan for us. If we do our best to follow the rules, it will lead us to happiness and success.
[Read more…] about Unleash The Wild Woman Within
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
We women have huge hearts.
We’re givers. We can give and give and give. Making other people happy makes us happy.
And many of us have dreams.
[Read more…] about Want to Make a Difference But Have No Idea Where to Start?
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
He’s asked you to stay for one more drink, and you know what that means. You’re not ready. What do you say?
Your boss has asked you to stay late to finish the project. You have a get-together with the girls scheduled for tonight. You’ve been looking forward to it all week. What do you say?
[Read more…] about ‘No’ is a Mean Word
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
We all want to be perfect and have everyone like us.
That’s what social media is all about. Show off your best side and count the likes that come in.
But that desire to be seen as perfect has a dark side. [Read more…] about The Courage to Be Yourself with Monica Ottosson (Video)
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