Role Models: Women Lead in Business and Media By Ben Mackin As a way to help Frankfort celebrate Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 27, The State Journal has spoken with local women in leadership roles in various industries for a three-part series entitled Role Models. In part one, published on Aug. 5, we spoke to leaders from local government, law…
Serena Williams Serves Up A New Vision Of Life And Retirement By Joseph Coughlin Tennis star Serena Williams announced her ‘retirement’ from tennis this week while challenging the very idea of retirement. In her interview with Vogue Magazine, Williams commented, “I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me….Maybe the best word to describe what I’m…
Women Lead in Government, Law, Tourism, & Activism By Anna Latek This month, The State Journal is focusing on the ever-expanding roles of women in leadership in anticipation of Frankfort’s celebration of Women’s Equality Day on Aug. 27. Each week, the newspaper will profile extraordinary women in several categories; business, education and this week we are profiling four women who…
Jill Biden on Teaching as First Lady: ‘I Knew I Could Do Both’ By Darlene Superville Jill Biden says she didn’t doubt that she could keep teaching as First Lady and overcame the skepticism that she could handle both jobs by instructing her staff to “figure it out.” In a new interview in the September issue of Real Simple magazine,…
Building Dream Careers with Chantelle Brinkley Zerotrillion New York’s managing director on helping others achieve their dreams and approaching leadership with a spirit of experimentation By Bossing It Chantelle Brinkley is the managing director of Zerotrillion, New York where she is currently leading expansion into the United States. Prior to joining Zerotrillion, She held diverse roles in both best-in-class agencies…
How to Invest in Your 20s By Alexa Von Tobel When I started the financial planning company LearnVest back during the Great Recession, I spoke with thousands of people across the country to understand their biggest questions about money. Without fail, learning how to invest always topped the list. Whether you’re just a beginner to investing, trying to wade through…
CEO Credits Her Career Success to Advice She Got When She Was 11 By Morgan Smith Beth Ford never imagined her career would make headlines. The Land O’Lakes CEO grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, as one of eight kids. Her first job was detasseling corn for $2 an hour. During college, she cleaned toilets and painted houses. Decades later,…
Mika Brzezinski: 7 Tips for College Women Entering the Workforce Mika Brzezinski laid out a career roadmap for young women on Wednesday during a keynote address at the annual Women’s History Month Luncheon hosted by the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. By Julianne Pepitone As founder of Know Your Value, Mika Brzezinski has doled out a lot of career…
Whole30 President Talks Inspiration, Success, & More By Sarah Regan Finding a career path that both suits you and touches the lives of others can be difficult to achieve—something Erica Rozetti, the president of Whole30, has come to know well. In this installment of our series, Follow Her Lead, we chat with Rozetti on what Whole30 means to her, how she’s…
3 Female Fortune 500 CEOs Share Advice, Lessons, & Skills By Morgan Smith The number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500 rose to a record high this year — 44 — which still means that women run less than 10% of the largest corporations in the U.S. Despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, women have yet…
