Covering up, not acknowledging, or discounting our talents and abilities is something many high ability people do – perhaps especially girls and women. Sally M. Reis, Ph.D. found that “gifted girls do not want to be considered different from their friends and same-age peers. Indeed, a tendency exists for many females, regardless of age, to […]
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Geena Davis and “Where the Girls Aren’t” in Media
Geena Davis portrayed the first woman American president on the TV Series “Commander in Chief” (2005–2006), and is founder of the organization Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, whose research finds that “male characters still do…
Ann Curry on Perseverance
News journalist Ann Curry [Today show etc] was born in Guam to a Japanese mother and a father of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent from Colorado. [Wikipedia profile.] She has talked about how her multi-ethnic background was at times in her life painful, but has also helped fuel her ambition to achieve, along with the […]
Healing and Creativity: SARK and Others
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is the bestselling author and artist of fifteen books, including Succulent Wild Woman, Bodacious Book of Succulence, Eat Mangoes Naked, and other titles. She is an acclaimed speaker and teacher, and CEO and founder of Planet SARK, a business that promotes empowered living, and her writings and artwork. One of […]
Maturity and emotional health: Naomi Judd on aging
Naomi Judd writes in one of her books about the power of self-direction and healthy self-regard: “It was a life-affirming breakthrough when I saw I could choose not to allow the culture, media, and some ad agency to impose harmful, unrealistic views and ideas about beauty, size, and age on me. “Ever since then, I’m […]