By Sara Bishop, communications specialist, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa’s “I Am Enough” mentoring program empowers young girls in our community. “I am proud to serve as an ‘I Am Enough’ champion alongside 30 phenomenal women. These women are outstanding community Read more…
By Leah Gutknecht, Title IX officer, University of Northern Iowa Title IX states, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Read more…
By Harwant Khush, research consultant, Tero International “Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.” – P. Yogananda Gaslighting is a psychological concept to signify emotional and mental abuses that people inflict to gain control and dominance over others. These abuses are hidden because they do not leave physical Read more…
By Emily Barske, Business Record editor A few weeks ago I saw an Instagram post about what we celebrate. The post said we often put a lot into celebrating what our society deems the big things: graduations, engagement, marriage, pregnancies, children, big career moves. But we don’t always put as Read more…
By Joey Beech Does your gut tighten when the market report comes up? Do you quickly scroll past or turn the channel when the red stock charts appear? There are a lot of upsetting things happening in the world. It is tempting to unplug from the endless information stream, but Read more…
By Brittany Heard, lead adviser, Foster Group Clients are more interested than ever in aligning their investments with their beliefs and values. This may be correlated to the fact that people are more likely to work in jobs that they feel reflect their values compared to prior years. That’s why Read more…
By Emily Barske, Business Record Editor I was adamant that I got the answer right, but the teacher counted it as wrong. The stage: middle school social studies class. I had received an A, but I wanted full credit for my answer to a question on a recent test. Enter Read more…
By Harwant Khush, research consultant, Tero International “It’s a case of men going, ‘Wow, it can’t get any worse. Quick, let’s put a woman in charge!’” – British comedian Sandi Toksvig The pathways for women’s empowerment, professional success and leadership advancement have not been smooth trajectories. Reports continue to verify Read more…
By Katie Patterson, Founder and CEO, Happy Medium It’s not lost on me that I’m sitting down (finally) at 7:59 p.m. on Tuesday (this blog’s due date) to write it. And like clockwork, the second I sat down, after working all day to run my companies followed by a Pinterest-inspired Read more…
One year ago we launched Fearless. Ahead of the launch, we spent months planning what was years’ worth of ideas about how we could work toward our goal of empowering Iowa women to succeed in work and life. This platform is still young, so you might be unfamiliar – but Read more…