Relationships & Community
Two Women Living Their Message Through Film:
The Empowerment Project
“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” That is the question filmmakers Sarah Moshman and Dana Michelle Cook set out to answer through interviews with women leaders across the United States. Their interviews turned into 34 days of footage and became The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things, a film that…
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Day Trip Adventure:
Bolinas, California
The Hubs and I recently enjoyed a day trip adventure to Bolinas, a pocket of magic on the coastal cliffs of Marin County. Just over an hour from our home in Sonoma, “Bo” is a sea breezy sanctuary for artists, surfers, and Bay Area folks looking to get away. Our trip held an interesting lesson…
Read MoreBeginning Again
As 2015 begins, I welcome country life here in Sonoma County with a new home, a new community, and a new routine. My new husband, our (my new) dog Bandon, and I are in a tiny little cottage together quickly making up for the time spent apart dating long distance. A year ago, I was…
Read MoreGreat Hope for our Future
I recently had a conversation with someone who said he at times has reservations about bringing children into our world because he fears that in our lifetime, our world could become a very grim place. He wondered if he would actually be doing a disservice to a future child by birthing he or she into…
Read MoreRemembering Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference at our Heart of Leadership Launch
Heart of Leadership launched our inaugural Speaker Series Panel yesterday! We opened the evening sharing how and why Heart of Leadership was created. In doing so, I went back to one of my initial clear moment of inspiration – Maria Shriver’s 2010 Women’s Conference, a coming together of the trailblazers of our generation: Oprah, Michelle…
Read MoreWhy It’s Important to Share Your Story
I just wrapped up a full day of powerful middle school assemblies – after each one, lines of students waited to talk. Some shared encouragement, hope, and thanks for the message; others told tearful stories about being bullied; and others shared their secret pain manifested in being the bully, cutting, eating disorders, depression, and thoughts…
Read MoreThe Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong – TED Talk by Dan Pallotta
We have confused morality with frugality. Dan Pallota makes the argument that we need to run charities like businesses – and give them the same leeway – if we really want to start taking on the major issues charities should be going after. For example, we criticize an executive director’s character if a fundraising campaign…
Read MoreThe Queen Bee & Her Protégé
“If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.” – Matthew Arnold, Nineteenth- Century British Poet and Philosopher Do you see the women around you generally supporting one another or…
Read MoreThe Only Way
I attended my first Christian women’s conference this weekend. I’m exhausted – inspired, enlivened…and worn out. In this journey with Jesus, I definitely find my edges from time to time. The current edge I’m exploring is around John 14:6: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father…
Read MoreExcavation
If you’ve ever thought that “choosing love” is a stupid idea, this post is for you. What follows is an account of the trip I mentioned in my last post and the learning it inspired. Through a muckiness that entertained “I choose love” as being one of my dumbest ideas yet, I have come out…
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