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PLEASE SHARE YOUR STORIES OF PEOPLE LIFTING YOU UP - as your own post. Tag it #LiftUp #PBWC, set it to PUBLIC and tag @Professional BusinessWomen of California to share your story with the community. From the momentum of #standup, let's start a cascade of empowerment by helping each other out - now with stories of moments we lift each other up. #LiftUp
PLEASE SHARE YOUR STORIES OF PEOPLE LIFTING YOU UP - as your own post. Tag it #LiftUp #PBWC, set it to PUBLIC and tag @Professional BusinessWomen of California ...to share your story with the community. From the momentum of #standup, let's start a cascade of empowerment by helping each other out - now with stories of moments we lift each other up. #LiftUp
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Sometimes it seems like the entirety of the first ten years of my career was spent on a plane. There have been so many truth-steeped moments spent with people I will never meet again. I don't remember her name or her company, but when she sat next to me, I knew she was in charge. Through my MacBook and headphones, I could feel her confidence, her truthfulness and her generosity. It was 2008.
I looked up, she waved said hi, I took off my headphones. She introduced herself - the CEO of a media company. She wanted to break the ice, she said, because flights can be boring and it's nice to meet your neighbor, talk a little. She wanted to know what I did, if I liked it, what I wanted from my career.
"You're going to rise," she said. "I can tell that about you." She told me why she thought so. I asked her about her job, how it unfolded, how she moved upward, who came with her along the way, who did not, and who was at home when she left work at night. She shared everything. Men, women, bosses, kids, employees, collaborators. The easy fun stuff along with the brutal truths of her career trajectory.
The plane was landing and she looked deeply at me. "The hardest lesson is figuring out how to keep everyone inspired, moving forward, moving upward."
Ten years have passed along with and several career-defining moments and the support of some awe-inducing mentors. When I think about this 90-minute on-plane pep talk, I wonder all kinds of things. And I see, in hindsight, the carpet of my professional life rolling out before me. #LiftUp
#LiftUp stories! PLEASE SHARE YOUR STORIES OF PEOPLE LIFTING YOU UP - as your own post. Tag it #LiftUp. We're building on the momentum of #StandUp #TimesUp and #MeToo to foster women-helping-women, and all genders lifting each other up! #LiftUp
This is a quirky story...faking it until you make it! From www.twitter.com/ari:
"It was my first job out of college at a post production video company. One of our biggest clients was a confident, razor-sharp woman...I wanted to be jus...t like her. I shyly asked her if she had any advice and she said "do yourself this one favor, fake it until you make it...I hire people all the time, and I always want to hire women but they usually tell me what they don't know...whereas the men just lie, but once you're hired, you're in and can learn on the job." A few days later she asked me if i was ready to lead design one of her campaigns and although totally unsure I was, I said yes. I ended up doing dozens of huge, award winning campaigns for her...and later, I learned other empowering things on the job, like coding in a variety of languages, spearheading prototypes for giant corporations and launching multiple tech startups..#grateful for the leap of faith that this women instilled in me. #LiftUp #pbwc
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Despite the fact that more diverse teams lead to better business results, 71% of start-ups have no women on the board - and 57% have no women in leadership positions. @AllisonMNau
“The darlings of the business world shifted from middle-aged men in Brooks Brothers suits, to college drop-outs in hoodies – it’s about to shift again.”
#BlackHistoryMonth
Feb 5, 1990. The Harvard Law Review...the most prestigious in the country, elected the 1st black president in its 104-yr history today. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…/2…/09/barack-obama-ha.html
“Some of the greatest gifts that we receive in life are the successes of those we have guided.” #liftUp
Professional BusinessWomen of California is feeling excited.
Congratulations to Argent for your ever-growing notoriety and success. You two are such an inspiration, making a impact. #LiftUp
We are so honored to be part of your story, and excited THAT year's conference is now on record for hosting HRC's "Out of the Woods" speech as well as queuing the photo line that would redefine the future of women's workwear.
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What an amazing clip to start Black History Month! A gift to watch!!!
Watch these kids deliver the breaking news we need - just in time for Black History Month! 
#happyblackhistorymonth
#becauseofthemwecan
#blackexcellence...
#alltimehigh
Fantastic list of resources for women re-entering the workforce. Lindsay Gordon compiled together from list by ReBoot Accell. https://docs.google.com/…/1iEQbCe4f5YPoQm25ILGRq50kZZ3…/edit . #LiftUp A Life of Options, LLC
“If you have more diversity you have better financial performance,” says Theresia Gouw, one-half of the founding team of Aspect Ventures, the norm-breaking VC firm at hand (the other founder is Jennifer Fonstad). “Our company is nearly 50/50 in an industry in which just 7% of investors are female. And our portfolio is a reflection of our pipeline.”
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We are so grateful to each of the brave young women who stood-up to confront this monster.Their words mean this man will not harm any more children in his lifetime. #TimesUp #LiftUp #Justice
What do you think? Are we afraid to #liftUp fellow women because we think it’s unfair if they have become friends? Lifting up other women and disadvantaged people is part of our conference theme this year.
"I believe women are too often reluctant to promote the women they’ve met in business because when we become friends with women we like and admire, we then feel... compromised about mixing that friendship with business...Meanwhile, the men aren’t worried about that and they promote opportunities regularly to their friends as if it’s the most natural thing in the world."
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