This week we find out:
- Fascinating research that points out the achievements and challenges women face in the workplace
- Alanis Morissette’s advice for women who are on the precipice of their own Emergence
- Women’s barriers to becoming leaders, and candidates for senior positions
- The inspiration behind Emerging Women
- How self-compassion can help us accept the truth of who we are
At the end of this post, we encourage you to join us for a conversation. This week’s Juicy Bites question for you, dear emerging women, is:
What allows you to accept the truth of who you are?
1. Women in the Workplace: A Research Roundup via Harvard Business Review
This article explores recent research by business, psychology, and sociology scholars that offers a window into women’s collective experiences in the workplace, bringing light to issues such as:
- Work/Life Balance
- Equal Pay
- Leadership Qualities
2. Alanis Morissette – Creative Intimacy and the Merging of Yin and Yang via Grace & Fire
Emerging Women is happy to announce the launch of our podcast series: Grace & Fire.
Our first podcast features the amazing powerhouse Alanis Morissette as she talks about:
- Vulnerability
- Strength with Femininity and balancing the Yin/Yang or Masculine and Feminine essence
- The effect of success on the creative process
- How anger can actually build intimacy in relationship
- And finally, Alanis gives her one piece of advice for women who are on the precipice of their own Emergence.
Alanis is a keynote speaker at the 2013 Emerging Women Live Conference, October 10th-13th in Boulder, CO.
Listen to the podcast HERE
3. Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers via Harvard Business Review
We are seeing more and more companies make gender diversity a priority. Despite the good intentions of their employers, women still face hurdles to becoming leaders and candidates for senior positions.
“Becoming a leader involves much more than being put in a leadership role, acquiring new skills, and adapting one’s style to the requirements of that role. It involves a fundamental identity shift. Organizations inadvertently undermine this process when they advise women to proactively seek leadership roles without also addressing policies and practices that communicate a mismatch between how women are seen and the qualities and experiences people tend to associate with leaders.”
4. LeapCast Podcast Episode #3 – Chantal Pierrat via LeapCast
Check out this podcast series from LeapCast – a catalytic community for passion-seeking women.
Tune in to learn what inspired Chantal to start Emerging Women Live, the fears that surfaced as she was launching, and how she pushed past them.
Listen to the podcast HERE
5. Embracing Our Common Humanity With Self-Compassion via Huff Post Healthy Living
Kristin Neff talks about the importance of self-compassion and being in touch with our common humanity, and how that allows us to be more understanding and less judgmental about our inadequacies, and more aligned with the truth of who we are. Recognizing that we are not alone in our suffering, and that failure and imperfection is inevitable we are able to be acceptant of ourselves and less intimidated by our mistakes.
“One of the most important elements of self-compassion is the recognition of our shared humanity. Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means “to suffer with,” which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect, that we are all fallible.”
Kristin Neff is a speaker at the 2013 Emerging Women Live Conference, October 10th-13th in Boulder, CO.
This week’s Juicy Bites question for you, dear emerging women is:
What allows you to accept the truth of who you are?
