Category: Resources
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Brateil Aghasi’s Three Rules!
This morning’s Know the Rules of the Game Podcast: COVID-19 Impact on Homelessness with Brateil Aghasi and Kellie Aamodt was moving and inspirational. Huge shoutout to Aghasi, CEO of WISEPlace, for all the tremendous work she & her team does in aiding displaced women. Aghasi’s Three Rules when it comes to aiding the impacted, especially…
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2020 NAWRB WHER – Over SEVENTY Resources in Six Volumes – Get your digital copy TODAY!
Wealth is defined by having options. We must provide our children with resources to grow prosperity! If we do not provide future generations opportunities for wealth building and training for wealth management, we risk setting them up for failure. What can we do now to help our children achieve economic empowerment and sustainability? Women in…
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Don’t Bring Your Whole Self to Work: Bring Your Best Whole Work Self
As I look back on my twenty-five-year career in corporate America, I am struck by and struggle with the Diversity & Inclusion (“D&I”) and employee engagement mantra to “bring your whole self to work.” That might surprise you if you know me: I started my career working on D&I, and have worked on D&I inside…
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Deadliest Fires in California 2018: Resources for Financial Recovery
After dealing with numerous deadly fires earlier this year, California is currently dealing with three major wildfires, including the Camp Fire in Butte County, the Woosley Fire in Los Angeles County and the Hill Fire in Ventura County. California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom recently issued emergency proclamations in response to the wildfires and requested statewide FEMA…
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National Read a Book Day: NAWRB Staff Picks
We are thrilled that today, September 6th is National Read a Book Day. For many of us, reading was a first love. And even if it didn’t come to us easily or naturally, many of us know what it felt like when you first found an author or genre that spoke to you, that sparked…
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Get Your Strong On: Five Songs to Mood-Boost Your Strength
Every day it seems as if we are called on to be strong in one form or another. Whether it’s physical, mental or emotional, the challenge to be strong can be as simple as saying no to the second piece of pie or as profound as getting out of bed in the wake of personal…
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Unspoken Issues Impacting Women: Poverty, Health, Sexual Exploitation and Self-Confidence
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From its title alone, you can tell this panel was a little different from the others. Wide-ranging in scope, yet narrow in its focus on issues that derail women from advancing in life, the conversations held on stage focused on topics people are sometimes uncomfortable talking about including sexual exploitation and poverty.
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Power-up Your Policymaking
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How to turn your passion into action from boosting your local engagement or running for office “This woman’s place is in the House-the House of Representatives”-Bella Abzug It’s no new news that although we comprise a little over half the human population, women are severely underrepresented in both politics and business. Although great strides have…
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One Tough Mother: How Single Mothers are Defining the Homebuying Process
June is National Homeownership Month. This article is part of an ongoing series focusing on aspects of women’s homeownership. “Despite the stereotypes that insist women care more about marriage than men do, it may actually be the single life that women embrace more than men,” says Professor Bella DePaulo, social scientist, author, and expert on…