Storytelling. "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." --Hannah Arendt No one can pass up a good story. As neuroscience advances, we've learned there's a good reason. Brain scans are revealing that stories stimulate the brain and even change how we act. What stories have captured your imagination and transformed your thinking? Interviewing women across America for The Flight Patterns of Superwomen was a spine-tingling, life-changing experience for me. Stories of pride and accomplishment, struggle and … [Read more...]
Senators on Paycheck Fairness Act Serve Up Intolerance Taming Practice Opportunity
February 22, 2013
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. --George Bernard Shaw Last year I heard something that set me back on my heels, catalyzing the interviews (and forth-coming book) about real women in America: Main Street Women. At a youth leadership forum, the decades-old pay inequity statistic was presented to a group of 150 high school juniors: females in America make about 77 cents for every dollar males earn in the U.S. Red-faced, one girl turned to me and said, "Then why am I even trying?" Paycheck … [Read more...]
Mainstreet Women: Great at Speaking for Others, Now How About Us?
January 18, 2013
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Janine in CT said it so well, as girls we aren’t taught to speak for ourselves. This can hurt us. It definitely has negative consequences for our pocketbooks and by extension, our families, our communities, and our country’s economy. Billionaire Warren Buffett, the “Sage of Omaha,” has predicted that women will save the American economy. In an interview with philanthropist Melinda Gates, who was guest editor on BBC Radio 4's Today in December, Buffett said affording women the same prospects to succeed as men was key to a bright economic … [Read more...]
