By Beth Shelton, CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa I glanced out the small, square windows, the red flickering lights splashing across the front of my home. I could see the worried faces of my children peeking out our beveled glass door. I was struggling to breathe, my lungs Read more…
Photos and story by Emily Blobaum When you think about the topic of paternity leave, your mind probably doesn’t immediately go to Disney Pixar movies. Or maybe it does. When I asked Ben Keenan, an HR consultant at Principal Financial Group, why he took paternity leave, he asked me if Read more…
By Kaci Kohlhepp Conetzkey I knew being a mom was going to be hard. I’m the youngest of five with 10 nieces and nephews and three great nieces and nephews. I have one sister with triplet boys and another sister with a set of twins. I’ve been helping raise babies Read more…
By Lilian Sanchez I grew up the proud daughter of an immigrant. A single mom who sought refuge from an abusive household in the state known for its Field of Dreams. I grew up proud of my Mexican roots surrounded by strong and resilient women who would do anything and Read more…
By Tiffany O’Donnell | CEO, Women Lead Change Have you seen the memes about “How it started/How it’s going?” You’ll see things like a couple’s wedding picture (how it started) adjacent to their now grown family (how it’s going). Or the first day on the job as a line worker Read more…
If there’s anything that I’ve learned in interacting with, reading about and listening to women in leadership positions over the last few years, it’s that the path to getting where they are now was not a straight line. Occasionally, I’ll even meet women who have said they never imagined themselves leading Read more…
If you tuned in to our Fearless launch, you heard me say that women’s issues are everyone’s issues and we’ll be covering them as such. With this month’s focus on leadership, it’s imperative that we discuss what men can do to be allies to women in the workplace. As Emily Read more…
The Nov. 13 edition of the Business Record was produced entirely by women and contains 12 stories about 12 fearless women. To see the full issue, click here.
By Abigail Pelzer | Publisher, Marshalltown Times-Republican This time I made it home before the storm hit. Living with two years of motherly guilt for being at work and not by my son’s side during an EF-3 tornado, I was relieved to delegate office safety during the August derecho. There Read more…
Thirty percent. That’s roughly the proportion of executive-level leadership positions in Iowa that are held by women. This statistic is perhaps important not because it’s new, but because it’s NOT new. So why are we bringing it up now? One of the main intentions for Fearless is to continue bringing issues Read more…