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“I Said Yes to Everything for a Year and Here's What Happened”
Shonda Rhimes, media titan and all-around impressive human being, recently gave a TED Talk on how she said yes to everything for a year. It’s an awesome talk and I highly recommend watching it (even if you save it for later).
The funny thing is that I also conducted a similar experiment this past year.
What is leadership…really?
Complete this sentence: “A leader is…”
What’s your answer? Someone who’s in a formal position of power? Whoever’s ranked above you on the org chart? The person with the corner office and the higher salary?
Those might be the traditional perceptions, but it’s important to recognize that anybody can be a leader. Yes, that means you, too.
11 Ways Emotionally Intelligent People Communicate Better Than the Rest of Us
Emotions. They’re complicated.
On one hand, they’re a natural and vital part of our lives. They motivate us, regulate us, empower us. But they can also limit us greatly—if we don’t understand the effect they have on us and others.
So how do we improve our emotional intelligence, that ability to understand emotions, and then use that knowledge to guide our thinking and behavior?
Adult ISH
YR Media is a media company run and produced by young, mostly BIPOC creators. Adult ISH, hosted by Nygel Turner and Dominique “Dom” French, is perfect for older teens and young adults trying to figure out how to navigate their world.
Our Selection of Podcasts
I Weigh
British actress Jameela Jamil started the "I Weigh" movement in an effort to fight back against how the value of women is often measured by their body weight. Instead, she promotes the idea that we each have our own formulation for calculating our value that isn’t based on our body at all but on other traits such as being a good friend, making an honest living, volunteering or a million other things.
The Diary of a CEO
A few years ago, Steven Bartlett was a broke, university dropout, at 18 he built an industry leading social media marketing company, and at 27 he resigned as CEO. Steven hosts the Diary Of A CEO' podcast with the simple mission of providing an unfiltered journey into the remarkable stories and untold dimensions of the world’s most influential people, experts and thinkers.
Side Hustle Pro
Side Hustle Pro spotlights bold black women entrepreneurs who have scaled from side hustle to profitable business. Join Chief Side Hustler turned full-time entrepreneur Nicaila Matthews Okome for your weekly installment of Side Hustle Pro and learn actionable strategies to start small and get going–wherever and whoever you are.
We Can Do Hard Things
On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.
The School of Greatness
Lewis Howes is a New York Times best-selling author, 2x All-American athlete, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. The School of Greatness shares inspiring interviews from the most successful people on the planet—world-renowned leaders in business, entertainment, sports, science, health, and literature—to inspire YOU to unlock your inner greatness and live your best life.
We Belong Newsletter: Stories that Connect Us.
Our Newsletter offers insightful content, stories, interviews, leadership and career opportunities that celebrate our differences and advocate for inclusion. Curated by our collaborator Iva Genova from Bulgaria.
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