All Entries Tagged With: "woman power"

A coach once gave me some great advice that I embraced. She said, “flaunt your quirks.” The quirkier the better. What this means is that all the qualities and characteristics that make you unique are part of your essential, true self.

It’s about time you stop comparing yourself to and liberating yourself from men. Enjoy your power as a woman and your role as a nurturer as you complement and balance the human equation to make it whole.

It’s not my imagination.  And it’s not just anecdotal evidence from my own coaching business.  I’ve recently read several research articles that find women exhibit a lack of self-confidence in their own abilities as entrepreneurs compared to men; many women do not feel comfortable calling themselves entrepreneurs; and, fear of failure is higher for women [...]

We’re so occupied with home improvement and self-improvement that it’s difficult to see the true self that’s underneath. Who are you fixing, anyway? Do you know? Maybe you don’t need improving at all. Perhaps your original self is more beautiful than you even imagined.

I’m turning 40 in a few weeks. Bizarre. Surreal. Cannot believe it. Just yesterday I was at ecstatically getting the hell out of high school, wearing shoulder pads and stilettos underneath my graduation gown; knowing full well that the world was my oyster and that extra-hold hair mousse would get me through almost any encounter. [...]

There are several low/no cost ways to begin speaking.  I would begin speaking free of charge –I did and it was a great way to build my database quickly.  Here are my 4 favorite tips for building your reputation and becoming slightly famous with speaking. Tip #1: Offer a class related to your business at [...]

I’m loving: 1. Rebecca Walker’s perspective on Chris Brown’s violent attack on Rhianna: “This is about relationships and what healthy ones look like,” she told ABC News. “It’s about intimacy and how little we, as a culture, know about cultivating and maintaining it. It’s about love, what it is, and what it isn’t.” 2. This [...]

Aunt Prema or Prema Mashima, as Ma used to address her, was one of Mamai, my paternal grandmother’s closest friends. She also happened to come from the Tripura royal family. Mamai had taught me to address Prema Mashima as Princess, a title the latter always cringed at and which I later learnt she truly held [...]

My friend Yvonne sent me the following: Question: How many women with menopause does it take to change a light bulb? Woman’s Answer: One! Only one! And do you know why? Because no one else in this house knows how to change a light bulb! They don’t even know that the bulb is burned out!! [...]

The Womens’s 2.0 Summit was arranged by Silicon India on 13th March . There were quite a few women achievers who doled out their success mantras. I have summarized a few here.  Women must be decisive, have self-pride (vanity is good), be independent, give high priority to their needs, and network.  GOAL can be an [...]