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10 Remarkable Women Leaders to Watch, 2023

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Influence and inspiration separate leaders from others, not power and control. Leadership is an individual’s ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward organizational success.

The world needs leaders like who can think beyond problems, have a vision, and inspire people to convert challenges into opportunities, one step at a time.

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COVER STORY

The True Experience of Greater Fort Lauderdale with Stacy Ritter.

 “Our value proposition is that everyone is entitled to travel to a destination where they are welcomed regardless of who they are, what they worship (or don’t), how they identify, and whom they love.”

FEATURES

Louise Hampton is focused on providing quality care.

Set on a personal mission to create a difference in people’s lives, Louise is an inspiring example of what can be achieved when a person is passionate about a cause and committed to making a difference.

Elizabeth Francisco is the Chief Experience Officer at Inhabit, an innovative software company known for its revolutionary solutions.

Elizabeth Francisco: Creating solutions that empower.

Inhabit is a leading software company that provides end-to-end solutions for over 4 million residential and vacation property management units.

Roxana Fabris is a Mexican entrepreneur and the President of Construyendo y Creciendo, an enterprise that focuses on creating economic opportunities for construction workers and other vulnerable populations

Roxana Fabris: The Brain Behind Construyendo y Creciendo

Roxana Fabris is a Mexican entrepreneur and the President of Construyendo y Creciendo, an enterprise that focuses on creating economic opportunities for construction workers and other vulnerable populations.

Victoria Jenkins is reducing inequalities with her fashion brand

What goes into building an inclusive adaptive fashion brand for people with disabilities.

THE BUSINESS

Pet-friendly workplaces result in greater employee productivity, commitment and morale.

Pandemic pet boom has increased the demand for pet-friendly workplaces

A survey found six in 10 pet-owning workers left their job for a pet-friendly workplace and seven in 10 were willing to trade pay for a pet-friendly office.

First Nations have been resisting the historic and ongoing impacts of Canada’s extractive economy on their communities by exercising their right to self-governance and taking control of their economic futures.

First Nations are using ‘creative disruption’ to foster economic growth in their communities

First Nations have been resisting the historic and ongoing impacts of Canada’s extractive economy on their community.

Events like the Cambridge Analytica scandal and revelations of mass government surveillance by Edward Snowden shine a light on data collection practices, but they leave people powerless and resigned that their data will be collected and used without their explicit consent. This is called “digital resignation”.

Protecting privacy online begins with tackling ‘digital resignation’

Going online often involves surrendering some privacy, and many people are becoming resigned to the fact that their data will be collected and used without their explicit consent.

OUR HEALTH

“I’m going to the countryside over the weekend to disconnect.”

Why a walk in the countryside “tames” our brain

“I’m going to the countryside over the weekend to disconnect.”

Many people believe that creative thinking is difficult – that the ability to come up with ideas in novel and interesting ways graces only some talented individuals and not most others.

Even if you consider yourself to be a conventional thinker, there are ways to unleash your creativity.

Do you think that creativity is an innate gift? Think again.

Your child could go to gym class on Monday morning and play soccer on a field that was sprayed over the weekend with 2,4-D, a toxic weedkiller that has been investigated as possibly causing cancer

Which state you live in matters for how well environmental laws protect your health

Chemical pesticides can be harmful to human health.

THE TECHNOLOGY

There’s a common perception that artificial intelligence (AI) will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out the need for some jobs altogether.

AI could make more work for us, instead of simplifying our lives

Demands associated with automation can create more work for humans.

While the complex gears of mechanical watches might be an engineering retort to the bling of the bejeweled bezel, there are a number of additional explanations for the retro revival that’s taking place.

How digital technology spawned retro’s revival

Even old-fashioned board games and role-playing games are experiencing a renaissance.

The way we live our lives online is rapidly changing. Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and innovations such as blockchain – a kind of digital record for transactions — are set to transform the online world, affecting everything from social media to how people and businesses make money from their creativity.

Five emerging trends that could change our lives online

The way we live our lives online is rapidly changing.

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POETRY

Power

You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, —
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.

-Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

-Maya Angelou

QUOTES

“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.”

-Beyoncé Knowles Carter

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

-Amelia Earhart

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!”

-Audrey Hepburn

“If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities.”

-Ann Richards

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.

-Ruth Bader Ginsburg