I was surfing through some sports channels on TV and came across a very inspiring interview on Tara Sloane's show, Top of [Her] Game, on SportsNet. Tara's guest was Samantha Rapoport and man was she smart and impressive. I learned a lot and I loved it. On Tara's show, they talk about how Sam's love of football, as a young girl, blossomed into a 20 year career with the NFL. Now, Sam Rapoport is the NFL’s Senior Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. As Director of Football Development, she was hired by the NFL to bring more women to the…

You start with passionate teenagers and watch them go. Ten teens who are changing the world, in their own unique ways, were recently profiled in People magazine. And they are impressive. Here are a few examples: Hollis Belger - 16 Started Juggling for Jude to raise funds to raise funds for St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital. Check out her video and awesome juggling skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgqQF0os3Zo The hematuria is often intermittent and can stop on viagra best price its own, but repeated . Signing up is generally a cinch, with most schemes generating HTML code to paste into your pages, and…

There are lots of ways and it is really easy and fun to get started. And for any one in their mid or later years, it can make you feel young again. You can feel young again by stimulating your mind and your heart. You can feel young again by feeling useful, productive and maybe even powerful in your own way. If you want to feel like a really young person, go to DoSomething.org. This energetic organization describes themselves as A youth-led movement for good. DoSomething is full of stories about young people wanting to improve the world and backing…

The answer to this question is an enthusiastic yes. An enthusiastic yes because of how much educating girls really does help. I have written about these benefits in other posts and on my main website pages. You can also find detailed discussions in two of my favourite books that cover this topic. Moment of Lift: How empowering women changes the world by Melinda Gates Creating Room to Read: A story of hope in the battle for global literacy by John Wood The education of girls has also been adopted as one of the priorities of Michelle Obama's Girls Opportunity Alliance.…

The numbers are staggering. More than 6,000 women and children are housed in emergency shelters each night across Canada trying to escape abuse. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. We know that 67% of Canadians say they have personally known at least one woman who has experienced physical or sexual abuse. Approximately every six days, a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a huge international problem as well. And it has only worsened with the economic hardship and isolation caused by the ongoing world wide pandemic. Indigenous women are three times more likely to experience domestic…

Yes she does. And she had the confidence to talk about it on a widely publicized interview with Oprah on March 7, 2021. She gets that representation is important - representation of women, persons of colour, LGBTQ, and persons from all cultures and walks of life. We all need to see others like us, at school, at work, in health care and in the popular culture and media that is all around us. This is what representation is all about. When we see examples of who we could be, we can start to dream and one day become like the…

Let me start with a clue. You don't have to be a billionaire to help people the way Melinda Gates does. Of course, it helps, but money is not the key to her success. I learned about Ms. Gates from her fabulous new book, The Moment of Lift. It is an incredible read. Well written (as you would expect), entertaining and so inspiring. And, on every page, an uplifting tone of possibility and optimism. No hype–she is not trying to sell you anything. Just crystal clear thinking and an appreciation (based on experience and well-documented facts) of how very complicated and…

Who doesn't admire Celine Dion. Celine Dion is not just an accomplished singer, she is also a very successful entrepreneur. Her entertainment empire has been valued at $800 million. Not bad for a woman of modest means from a small town in Quebec. A new report, Women Entrepreneurs Beyond the Stereotypes, and awareness campaign, See It Be It, has come out to celebrate women entrepreneur success stories. It includes 1000+ stories of diverse Canadian women. Celine Dion is just one of these amazing women profiled in this campaign. Many successful female entrepreneurs are thriving today, from all walks of life.…

Room to Read is celebrating the very important International Women's Day. On this special day, I was sent this invitation from Room to Read. And I wanted to pass it along to you. The invitation is for you to educate a girl for only $15. Imagine only $15 to support a girl's education for a whole year. For $15, you can help a girl stay in school longer, progress toward completion of secondary school and acquire the skills and agency she needs to choose her own path in life. This is a fact: Educated women lead healthier and more productive…

That would be silly - wouldn't it? Let's investigate. Unless you have been asleep at the wheel, you have heard of a bright new star, Amanda Gorman. She delivered, and I mean delivered, a touching, entertaining and powerful poem she wrote at the recent inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice-president Kamala Harris. It was called, The Hill We Climb. She was a highlight of the star-studded ceremony. According to Anderson Cooper from CNN, she stole the show. I was struck by the words of her poem. They were insightful way beyond her youthful years and perfect for an…