Category: Powerful Women
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Inspiring 87 year-old Student
Many people commented on how much they enjoyed my blog last week, so I am adding to the theme of eldering with this beautiful, inspiring story I read last week. (Again, perfect Divine Timing!) Enjoy!! “The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already…
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Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift!
I may have published this list before, but it’s simply the most concise and complete list of guidelines for living a great life that I’ve ever seen, so I want to share it again. Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the…
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Life is Rich and Full
It’s been a little over four weeks since I got back from The Legacy Ranch at Silver Spur, near San Antonio, Texas, but it feels like four months! I have packed so much into my life since I graduated from the Klemmer & Associates’ week-long Advanced Leadership Seminar on Jan 29th that each day since…
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The injustice must stop! (No, this is NOT a political post)
Have you spent a lot of your life wondering what you’re here for? (I can relate!) Have you ever longed to know your purpose? (Here again, I can relate!) I’m trusting that the personal experience I’m sharing here will be relatable to you… and in the end, support you. While reflecting last week, I saw…
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Arianna Huffington – cofounder of the Huffington Post
[ms_dropcap color=”” boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”8″ class=”” id=””]A[/ms_dropcap]s cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington has been a nationally syndicated columnist, radio host, and author of 15 books. Born in Athens, she moved to the U.K. at age 16, attended Cambridge. In 2003 Arianna made a failed bid as an independent candidate for…
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Don’t Look For A Princess In Need Of Saving.
Don’t look for a princess in the need of saving. Search for a queen willing to fight by your side. -Being Caballero
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J.K. Rowling
[ms_dropcap color=”” boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”8″ class=”” id=””]T[/ms_dropcap]he woman behind the popular Harry Potter series was a single mother living on welfare when she wrote the first book of the series. She was rejected by 12 different publishers before selling her book for a measly $4000. The work was an international hit and Rowling went on to…
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Malala Yousafzai
[ms_dropcap color=”” boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”8″ class=”” id=””]M[/ms_dropcap]alala Yousafzai is a Pakistani advocate for girls education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2009, when Malala was just eleven she began blogging about life under the Taliban, speaking out directly against their threats to close girls’ schools. (Pakistan has the second highest number of children out of school and two-thirds…