KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Reyma McCoy McDeid couldn’t hide anymore. It was 2014, and McCoy McDeid, then working at a Des Moines organization that helps individuals with intellectual disabilities, had to disclose one of her deepest secrets: She was autistic. Her entire life, she had masked Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Speaking up used to be a struggle for Deanna Strable-Soethout. When she was in her 30s, Strable-Soethout became the youngest person to hold the position of senior vice president at Principal Financial Group®, one of the largest financial companies in the world. Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Marilyn Swinney is familiar with feeling like an outsider, just for being who she is. More than 20 years ago — after graduating from the University of Manchester in England with a textile technology degree — Swinney made the selection process for Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Some people are drawn to their life’s calling almost naturally. For others, like Elizabeth Balcarcel, that larger purpose finds them — perhaps by fate, by chance, or a bit of both. Balcarcel serves as director of state program technical assistance at Iowa Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY By her own admission, Betty Lee’s personal finances during her mid-20s were “a hot mess.” And she wanted to help others in similar positions learn to succeed with money. A San Francisco native, after graduating from UC Berkeley, Lee was working to Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Lynh Nguyen Patterson knows how to talk teeth. And she knows how to make you care. That’s her job as government relations manager at Delta Dental of Iowa, a nonprofit insurance company. Patterson’s primary responsibility is to convey to legislators the value Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Romonda D. Belcher doesn’t know how she stumbled across her dream to become a judge — only that the calling came early. “I didn’t know anything about law school or that I had to go to law school,” Belcher says. “Somehow, at Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Adilla Arantika is somewhat of a wunderkind. At 28, she’s a young leader in the business world, facilitating Principal® digital marketing efforts in Asia. But the determination and aspirations didn’t come overnight. They were developed through Adilla’s personal history and challenges. And Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY Bridget Cravens-Neely always knew she wanted to own her own business—a dream she and her husband James brought to life in 2017. Bridget, an Illinois native who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, spent nearly 30 years dedicated to a successful career in Read more…
KNOW YOUR WORTH: FEARLESS STORIES AT WORK, BY If anyone had told Munirah Khairuddin at 12 where she would be at 45, she wouldn’t have believed it. “I wanted to see the world,” Munirah says. “Malaysia wasn’t enough for me.” Today, she has seen the world. She’s also living in Read more…