Since law school, Alyson Decker worked relentlessly toward her goal — making partner at a big law firm. Years later, and although Alyson had given up on her goal of making partner, things were going well. She’d landed a rare in-house litigation role and been promoted to Vice President of Legal Affairs. Then she was …
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This Trailblazers series takes a look at the pivotal milestones that make up the life trails of inspiring women from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences. Kathleen Brown is the founder and CEO of buddhi, the digital platform reimagining support for people coping with cancer.
This Trailblazers series takes a look at the pivotal milestones that make up the life trails of inspiring women from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences. Andrea Campos is a visual artist, author, and creative storyteller. She started DreasDoodles at the beginning of the pandemic, as a way to process the overwhelming events in the world around her.
A handful of years ago, a new professional network for a new era of women was announced, and tens of thousands of Millennial women eagerly added their emails to the waitlist. I was one of them. (NOTE: We’re not getting into the actions of GirlBoss founder and former Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amorusa here, which …
This Trailblazers series takes a look at the pivotal milestones that make up the life trails of inspiring women from a diverse array of backgrounds and experiences. Jessica Eggert is the CEO and co-founder of LegUp, a company that is making child care more accessible for working parents. As a working mother of two herself, as well as a startup advisor and community builder, she has a passion for supporting women and people of color across their personal and professional lives.
We all need help along our journeys, but we don’t always know how to get it. Maybe we’re always the one doing things for others, and don’t feel comfortable prioritizing ourselves. Maybe we feel stigmas around needing help (thanks, social media) or see it as being transactional (looking at you, LinkedIn!). What we need is …
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Writer, researcher, EdD, mother, friend, wife — Haydée Cuza doesn’t fit into only one box, and that’s a very, very good thing. She’s been an anchor in the OwnTrail community for some time, and it was an honor to talk with her more deeply about her journey through life. I couldn’t think of a more …
Liana Fricker is a lot of things, but her very real title of Chief Inspiration Officer sums it up best. The UK-based, California-bred optimist is blazing her trail her way — bringing her creative flair for leadership and advocacy for women in business and underrepresented founders together as the founder of the Inspiration Space. She …
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Calling Claire Shorall a lifelong learner is an understatement. Her passion for supporting individual and collective learning, growth and success has been a constant across her days as a student-athlete at Rice University, to more than a decade teaching high school, working in venture capital and mentorship and now as the co-founder and CEO of …
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