Steve Jobs Life Lessons: How Do They Play Out In Your Own Life?
The 600 page Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson isn’t one I’ve picked up yet but Lance Ulanoff recently finished it and wrote a piece on Mashable about lessons learned — aka insights — from the...
View ArticleHonoring the Strong Female Forces In Our Lives
This week, I couldn’t stop thinking about them. Among “them” was not THE woman in my life who guided me, took care of me, shaped me. That was my grandmother and like most grandmothers of women in their...
View ArticleSingularity University, Women@TheFrontier and 10 Incredible Women Design the...
Singularity University held an event in conjunction with Women@TheFrontier at NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley last week. The program: “Designing the Future 2012″, brought together some of...
View ArticleFounders Less Than Three, a Funny, Sexy Novel About Startups
Founders Less Than Three is a funny, sexy novel about 10 start-ups with 5 CEO girls, 5 CEO guys and their race for funding and fun. The author? Boston-based Halley Suitt Tucker who doesn’t think that...
View ArticleMIT’s Jodie Wu, an Inspiration & Force Behind Change in Tanzania
It seemed as if everyone at the Idea Festival wanted me to meet entrepreneur, Echoing Green Fellow and CEO of Tanzania-based Global Cycle Solutions Jodie Wu. Enough people know I love Africa and the...
View ArticleTedActive Write-Up in Upstart Business Journal
What can an entrepreneur get out of TED or TEDActive, where today the lineup includes everyone from a yo-yo champion to a punk, burlesque singer to SpaceX and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk? I was...
View ArticleKundera’s Immortality: A Person is Nothing But His Image, But a Woman is...
I just finished yet another Milan Kundera novel: Immortality. He is, as always intense. I happen to be one of his fans, one who patiently understands the flow of his meandering style, knowing the...
View ArticleBrene Brown: Owning Your Imperfections For A Much Better Life
People who know me well know that I’m a sucker for a new read. As long as there’s not six other books in queue or the recommended book is so uncompelling I can’t get through it, it’s mine for the...
View ArticleTEDxUNPlaza: 3 Women on Empowerment & Trusting In Yourself
I was involved in the first ever TEDxUNPlaza event last week in New York City, a full day TEDx event focused on the theme BRAVE with 24 speakers who inspired over 300 people at the United Nations...
View ArticleWomen Rule the Internet: What People Are Talking about Online This Week
Actually, make that women and our supporters (which means men who truly love women) clearly rule the Internet. For the second time in a month, a controversial threat to women’s health, our bodies and...
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