Redefining Womanhood & Setting Your Own Course By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor Imagine yourself as a young child being handed a beautifully wrapped gift. Because of the beauty of the wrapping, the allure makes you want the treasure inside. Because you accept that gift, you must unwrap and take all that is inside. You are too young to…
“Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.” Ellen DeGeneres is a comedian, actress, and television host for her talk-show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She is also an entrepreneur as she has founded her own record company,…
“Shine bright and have a huge impact in this world, because you can.” Iskra Lawrence is a model and body-positivity activist. She is a model and an Aerie Real Role Model for the clothing brand American Eagle Outfitters. Lawrence champions and unretouched images in her professional photoshoots and across her social media networks. She is a National Eating Disorders Association…
How to Build a To-Do List that Doesn’t Make You Miserable By Zoë Randolph, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor I love lists. If you were to unearth my grade-school diaries, you’d discover, among the dramatics, crushes, and uses of two “g”s in “excellent,” a broad collection of aspirational day plans, ranging from the legitimate (“write a story;” “wrap Emma’s birthday present”)…
These 7 Female Leaders Are Bringing Inclusivity and Accessibility To Healthcare By Marija Butkovic World Bank and WHO have agreed that half the world still lacks access to essential health services, while 100 million people are being pushed into extreme poverty because of health expenses. A study has found that “although the quantity rather than the quality of health services has been the focus historically…
By Janice Perkins, GC4W Thought Leadership Contributor Two times this past winter and fall, I had incredibly close calls with almost hitting a deer in my car. Too close for comfort. As I reflected on the past two years, I thought: what does a near miss do to us? What does danger leaping out at us do to our coping…
The Founder of the ‘World’s Best’ Whiskey on Being a Real Leader By Nicklas Balboa The long and winding road to success is filled with challenges and stumbling blocks. There’s so little room at the top — and the climb to get there can change people. A once powerful visionary bends to the will of his or her investors, losing sight of…
How Nneka Ogwumike Is Championing Gender Equality On And Off The Court By Kenneth J. Williams Jr. For(bes) The Culture Since being drafted number one overall in the 2012 WNBA Draft, Nneka Ogwumike has been making waves as an advocate for gender equality in sports. Ogwumike, the president of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) and player for the Los…
Synchrony Financial’s Tech And Operating Chief Brings Agile Practices To The Executive Team By Peter High Carol Juel has been the chief information officer at Synchrony Financial since the company’s creation, after it spun out from General Electric just over seven and a half years ago. She had worked at GE for the decade prior to that. In the early…
How To Believe In Your Idea (And Yourself) Even When Others Don’t By Megan Bruneau “The idea itself was absurd,” Zoe Sakoutis recalls as she tells the story of building the original cold-pressed juice brand on The Failure Factor podcast. She and her Earth & Star cofounder, Erica Huss, bootstrapped their first beverage business to a $26 million sale in just five years.…
