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Risk Taking

Confidence

‘Fearless is having the courage to honor your truth’: Meet 6 fearless Iowa women

By Emily Kestel, Fearless editor The Business Record’s Fearless initiative is celebrating its second birthday this year. We remain steadfast in living up to our goal of empowering Iowa women to succeed in work and life through our articles, stories and community events.  At its core, Fearless aims to amplify Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months4 months ago
Confidence

Courageous Fire: ‘I want to fight for my future and the future of others’

As told to Emily Kestel Courageous Fire is a social entrepreneur and owner of Courageous Fire LLC, a company that educates the community about domestic violence, and the founding executive director of Courageous Access, a nonprofit that provides direct services to survivors of domestic violence.  The following story has been Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months5 months ago
Confidence

Jen Loeb: ‘My happiness just happens to be high-consequence’

As told to Emily Kestel Upon summiting the Vinson Massif in Antarctica on Dec. 28, 2021, Jen Loeb became the first woman from Iowa to climb the “Seven Summits,” which are the highest peaks on the seven continents. She lives near Marengo. The following story has been formatted to be Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months5 months ago
Confidence

Denise O’Brien: ‘If more women were at the table, the landscape would change’

As told to Emily Kestel Denise O’Brien is an activist, organic farmer and co-founder of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. She lives on a 17-acre farm in Cass County with her husband, Larry Harris.  The following story has been formatted to be entirely in her own words, and has Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months5 months ago
Confidence

Sydney Rieckhoff: ‘I’m not going to let my age hold me back’

As told to Emily Kestel Self-proclaimed ‘popcorneur’ Sydney Rieckhoff is the CEO of Almost Famous Popcorn, a small-batch gourmet popcorn company she started with her brother in 2012 at age 14. Now with 50 employees, the company has a factory and retail store in Cedar Rapids and a retail store Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months4 months ago
Confidence

Patty Sneddon-Kisting: ‘I will never let the things I’m going through steal my joy’

As told to Emily Kestel Patty Sneddon-Kisting is the executive director of the Urbandale Food Pantry. She and her wife, Lisa, have two children: Addi and Cooper. Another child, Hudson, died shortly after birth. They are expecting their fourth child this December.  The following story has been formatted to be Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months5 months ago
Confidence

Mayada Alwan: ‘It takes a lot of fearlessness to be an immigrant’

As told to Emily Kestel Mayada Alwan is a senior at Valley High School in West Des Moines, where she is a founding member of RISE, a student club that mentors refugees and immigrants. She and her family are Sudanese, and immigrated to the United States from Lebanon. She is Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 4 months4 months ago
Risk Taking

What gives you the courage to take risks?

Thoughts ahead of our Fearless Focus conversation on risk-taking By Emily Kestel For our last two Fearless Focus events, we’ve talked with women leaders across the state about leadership and confidence.  Those conversations serve as a perfect segue for our next topic in the Fearless Focus event series: risk-taking.   After Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 6 months6 months ago
Leadership

Leading Fearlessly: Just say yes!

By Suzanna de Baca, president and CEO, Business Publications Corp. What have you said yes to?  Once I said yes to a job that paid much less than I had been making, required relocation from a city I loved, and involved personal danger. Why? I believed so deeply in the Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 1 year1 year ago
A black and white photo of a woman with short curly hair standing against a white wall. Illustrations of light pink magnolia flowers overlay the image.
Confidence

TERESA ZILK: ‘I just get up every day and live my life’

As told to Emily Kestel Teresa Zilk is a mental health advocate and the founder of Stories To Tell My Daughter, which is a storytelling experience dedicated to centering the voices and experiences of Black women and other women of color. She is also the owner of Teresa Zilk Creative Read more…

By Emily Kestel, 1 year1 year ago

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