“One day, all of this will vanish. This brick and mortar and dogma. Gentlemen, women are coming to Cambridge.” I heard those words spoken a week ago watching Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, the new film adaptation of Woolf’s 1919 novel. In the film, Katharine...
For most of our working lives, we’ve been handed the same story: Your career is a ladder. Climb it. Don’t step off. Don’t move sideways. And whatever you do, don’t leave a gap! And we’re told that’s ambition. But Author and Journalist, Helen Jonsen, offers another...
A couple of weeks ago, my newsletter addressed the topic that Women aren’t the Problem. The System is. For decades we have been carrying the burden of adapting to systems that weren’t designed for us and, in fact, work against us due to the bias ingrained in their...
After I published my interview with Jaqueline Sussman, on The Power Women Were Taught to Hide, last week, I received this comment from a reader. “It’s one thing to know you have power. It’s another thing to know when and how to use it—especially when it matters.” She...
I’m launching a new Badass Women at Any Age interview series on Substack: My first conversation is with Jaqueline Sussman, whose life’s work has centered on helping women discover the authentic self beneath years of conditioning. What is your personal story, and...
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