You Are Here
“If you want to go somewhere you haven’t gone you must do something you haven’t done. Make the damn investment. You are worth it. Learning alongside women who bring their full humanity to the table and lead from a place of wholeness.” — Gabrielle E....
Raise Your Voice
Today’s a big day! Today is the one year anniversary of Kathy Khang’s important book, Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How We Speak Up! To celebrate, below is an excerpt from her book. Go buy it. Give your money to women, especially women of color.This excerpt...
Introducing! A Coaching Group for Women in Leadership
IT’S TIME. More than ever, women with leadership and teaching gifts must be at the table, in meetings, on stages, and fully showing up in all areas of life.Over the last 20 years, I’ve walked with thousands of teenagers and women. The most important thing to...
Here Breathing (feat. Amena Brown Owen)
Ever forget to breathe? Have difficulty taking deep breaths in stressful moments? Me too.Breathing is essential to being alive. It’s core to living fully in your body, mind, and spirit. And yet, too often we hold our breath, take hurried, shallow breaths, or are...
Stay Awhile
Tamara Carpenter Guest Post What does it mean to be an Ezer; a warrior, a strong helper? I’m still learning. My progress toward wholeness is advancing in fits and starts. I’m learning that by owning my whole story, even the unseemly parts, I grow stronger. With help...
The Wind Factor
This week, I had the gift of spending some time with long-time (S)HERO, Nancy Beach. When I first began my leadership journey over 20 years ago, Nancy Beach was one of first women I saw leading and teaching at the highest levels of the church. She led a large area of...
Workplace Woes
Sydney Jung Guest Post There have been many moments in my four years of post-grad working that I have felt like I was not fairly treated. As a property manager, you deal with a lot of people. And a lot of these people want to challenge authority...especially from a...
Yes to Me
Kelly Skiles Guest Post I grew up in the era of Queen Oprah. Five days a week, Oprah had amazing guests (I remember when Alicia Keys came on as a teenager), gave people makeovers, and talked about social issues that were important to people, especially women. Over and...
Lamenting Rachel Held Evans (+ Women in Leadership)
About 5 years ago I wrote a lament for women in leadership as a sidebar for a new Bible to be published by Tyndale House. The piece was pulled in the editorial process because the publisher knew Lifeway Christian Bookstores wouldn’t carry the Bible because of that...
Divorce Devastation
Diane Greer Guest Post Significance begins with the moment you put two and two together. Mine began with a Chemical Engineer father who was raised during The Great Depression. He fought hard to achieve his education; from living in a barn, to picking and drying...