Give me a hug – or else!
I’m preparing to deliver a speech before NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) and the topic that I’ve selected and they have approved is ‘The Top Ten Knock ‘Em Alive Secrets that Every Positively Powerful Woman Knows.” I’m going to be asking attendees and I am asking you, “Are you excited about your product or service? Do you wake up gassed about what’s next? Do you approach each new business opportunity like it’s your favorite new lover? Then you know one of the secrets of every Positively Powerful Woman (and you can bet...
Read MoreFor Women – Insist on Sitting At the Table
If there is going to be equality in the world, it will be because women are representing themselves proportionately to their numbers in society. Women represent 50% of all human beings on the planet but they lag behind men in almost every category except one (motherhood) when compared to men. View Sheryl Sandberg’s Ted Talk from December 2010, on why there are so few women leaders. (Join the conversation on TED.com) Sandberg is a significant force at Facebook, which automatically makes her one of the most influential women in world. Being seen as a “Powerful Person” provides for an...
Read MoreThanks for Staying with Tennis- Wimbledon
Male sport figures who fight through injuries to play the sport that they love are often called “Warriors” or “Heroic”. Women on the other hand when they suffer an injury and keep going, they are called injured. Being injured or returning from an injury is a more realistic, we don’t really have warriors in sports. This year at Wimbledon, there were at least four women who showed up to play for no other reason, in our interpretation, than because they love to play Tennis. It is fitting to acknowledge their effort, without the use of overblown war references, and...
Read MoreKristi Lee – Speaking with F.O.R.M is Second Nature in Selling
Kristi Lee uses FORM (Family, Occupation, Recreation and Motivation) in helping her to develop relationships that stand the test of time. FORM represents four extremely important areas in everyone’s life and having a better understanding of each area will enable you to serve people well. “I align myself with people who I feel I can contribute to and/or learn from” says Kristi. As she explained at the 2011 Positively Powerful Women Awards Luncheon and Conversation on Leadership Workshop, Kristi spends a good deal of time first understanding who her customers are and then in...
Read MoreHow We See Others
We hear generalizations made about Woman, Muslims , African Americans, All People of Color, Mexicans, Children, Asian, Native Americans, White People etc., which we shamefully accept without challenge, and proclaim “Well that who these people are” .
Read MoreLiving Forward & Speak Little Children
Two Houston organizations will be supporting women "with criminal justice histories" and children receiving foster care or whose mother is incarcerated. Both organizations are connected through a commitment to make life better for others, living positively powerful lives, and in the month of November, speaker and author Dr. Joel Martin.
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