by Bonnie Marcus | Feb 27, 2020 | ambition, Office politics, Self Promotion, workplace
Women have a complicated relationship with ambition. Owning our ambition feels uncomfortable because while men are encouraged and supported to be ambitious, women are often chastised for any public declaration. This hesitation on our part to fully embrace it has...
by Bonnie Marcus | Nov 14, 2019 | ambition, Women in Business
For decades, we’ve discussed how women in STEM fields can survive and thrive. A great role model and leader in engineering is Annette Bergeron, who I recently interviewed on my Badass Women of Any Age podcast. Is Annette Bergeron a badass? You bet. She’s the current...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jun 4, 2019 | ambition, leadership, Office politics, Self Promotion, Webinar, Women in Business
It’s no secret that society still isn’t comfortable with powerful women. And as ambitious women, we struggle to balance our desire to succeed and our need to be liked and accepted. As a result, we often give our power away. Watch as I discuss my journey to empower and...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jan 18, 2019 | ambition, gender diversity
Susan told me in confidence that she sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night in a panic. The fear that someone will discover her age consumes her. At 62, she uses Botox and filler to hide the signs of aging and takes her birthday off from work each year to avoid...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jan 9, 2019 | ambition
When Glenn Close accepted her Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Wife, she shared why the movie’s theme of a woman living in the shadow of her husband resonated so much with her. Close’s mother took a back seat to her husband’s career and as a result, when...
by Bonnie Marcus | Dec 12, 2018 | ambition, Success
Recently, Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell in her office at the Supreme Court and broke three ribs. As a result, she was hospitalized briefly. Women across the country who look to her as their champion hoped she would return to work quickly. But Ginsburg didn’t wait to be...
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