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Marci Nemhauser
WCL Vice President
I just spoke at Carmen Oaks Retirement Center about the Joys and Challenges of Letting Go. We had a lively discussion about “our stuff” and the meaning we attach to it. What struck me is how much some of us identify the things we have with who we are. We are not our stuff and yet somehow we manage to define our identity, in part, by what we have. [click to continue…]
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Claire Celeste Carnes
WCL Strategic Marketing Director
The annual Take Your Child to Work Day was on Thursday April 26th. While this event did not exist when I was a kid, I do remember the bored middle schoolers in conference rooms with their parents during the early years of my career. It seemed that the day cemented, for many kids, a fear that work is boring – and reinforced the idea that their parents must be even more boring in order to endure day after day in meetings like that.
So it was with some trepidation that I brought my own daughter into work this past week. I picked her up from school late in the morning so as to avoid the capital planning session, which was unlikely to spark her enthusiasm for work, and we arrived around 11 a.m. At 10 years old, she is more likely to engage in activities than wander around the office and take candy from the scattered candy bowls. [click to continue…]
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Susy Wagner, MBA
Writer, Leadership Coach, and Managing Partner, Rabiner Resources
Although I like some of her songs, I’m not a huge fan of Lady Gaga’s performance style. However, she’s caught my attention – and admiration – for things other than her music and outrageous costuming.
Her name keeps showing up in news headlines as a remarkable businesswoman and social influencer. Here are a few examples:
- Forbes recently named the 26-year-old Gaga as the most powerful celebrity in the world (unseating perennial winner, Oprah Winfrey) and the 11th most powerful woman in the world behind the likes of Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, and Brazil’s President Dilma Rouseff. [click to continue…]
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Rachel Shafran
WCL Secretary
The upsurge in mobile devices – Blackberries, iPhones, iPads – has transformed the typical workday. The line between work and life has blurred. According to Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance”.
Sheryl Sandberg, mother of two, and outspoken advocate of women leaders, has recently been sharing her challenges of being a mother and trying to juggle family responsibilities with a demanding job at Facebook. [click to continue…]
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Michelle Sosinski
WCL President
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?” ― Amelia Earhart
Source: Wikipedia
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. To this day, it is still a mystery as to what happened to her and her navigator Fred Noonan when they disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. This was to be the ultimate challenge of an equatorial around-the-world airplane flight. Recent headlines state to a possible renewed search for the remains of the famous aviator and her twin-engine Lockheed Electra airplane. There are many theories and speculations as to what might have happened, but nothing has led to the recovery of the plane or the two individuals onboard. [click to continue…]
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“When I started working on women’s history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think that women had a history worth knowing.” —Gerda Lerner, Historian, Author and Teacher
Source: National Women's History Museum
Women’s History Month celebrates the achievements of and challenges faced by women in diverse fields such as education, education, science, civil rights, politics, literature and the military. Throughout history and present day, women have helped to shape our country and the world. Their contributions, often unrecognized, have made indelible impacts on our culture and society. [click to continue…]
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Michelle Sosinski
WCL President
Not surprising … it was a cold, stormy morning in Portland, as I swiftly walked from the car to the front door of my favorite grocery store. Keeping my head down, as I was trying to keep the rain from slapping me in the face, I noticed a pair of little shoes as I stepped up on the curb. I peeked out from under the hood of my coat, only to be greeted by a couple of wide-eyed Girl Scouts asking me if I’d like to buy some cookies. I couldn’t resist and made my yearly “Samoas’” purchase. As I left, I noticed two big grins. [click to continue…]
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Claire Celeste Carnes
WCL Strategic Marketing Director
Most Americans have never heard of it, but International Women’s Day began 101 years ago in Germany and it is an official holiday in many countries, including Russia, Vietnam, and (surprise!) Afghanistan.
Originally called International Working Women’s Day, March 8 is set aside to celebrate the social, political and economic achievements of women. [click to continue…]
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Rachel Shafran
WCL Secretary
Aung San Suu Kyi has always been one of my role models in life. She is a woman icon representing freedom and democracy for Burma. For many people, Aung San Suu Kyi is a symbol of peace and reconciliation. She is beautiful, intelligent and has high ideals. For the past 20 years, she has been under house arrest by the Burmese military. She was granted freedom in November 2010 and is now running for a seat in the Parliament in Burma.
Aung San Suu Kyi was educated in secondary school in India and then attended St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, in England. While there, she studied politics, economics and philosophy and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Her father taught her a sense of duty for her country and her mother taught her forgiveness. [click to continue…]
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Michelle Sosinski
WCL President
With an upcoming IPO around the corner, Facebook has dominated the business news. So too has its Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 and is in charge of its business operations including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communication. Prior to Facebook, she worked at Google, the World Bank and the US Treasury Department. [click to continue…]
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