Un Jin was a woman described to me that I knew I had to meet; a woman who asked me out to breakfast instead of just coffee. To learn about someone over a meal has taken on a new importance after sharing huevos rancheros, grease, and bottomless diner coffee.
Read MoreWhen we sat down with Tyra, she projected nothing but rays of positivity and beams of happiness. Outside, torrential rain and wind pounded the city, but it didn’t seem to faze her. I didn’t consider it at the time, but it occurs to me now that it’s synonymous with how she spent her sentence: gloomy circumstances, but an optimistic spirit.
Read MoreFive minutes on the phone with Eisha Armstrong, partner and co-founder of Vecteris, a startup product management consultancy, and I feel at ease. “When people talk about product management,” she tells me, “they talk about the intersection of technology, user experience, and business acumen.” But Armstrong and her triple-threat cohort of female founders believe there’s more to it than that. In a city bubbling over with potential and promise in the world of tech, this is a conversation that we should all be having.
Read MoreRecently, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what my life is going to look like post-graduation. All I’ve wanted my entire life is to travel and live in new cities and have a career that I love. It’s getting to the point in my life where I now have to actually make those things happen. Which, honestly, is quite terrifying to me.
Read MoreMolly and I write about health. We research health. We work in health. We talk about health. We try and practice “good” health. So we know that the word health is multifarious and the concept is a complex one. Health means different things to different people based on culture, income, race, geography, knowledge, stage of life, medical history, and so on.
Read More“Snapshot” is a part of the larger exhibit, Life: Gillian Wearing, and can be viewed and admired now through Dec. 30 at the Cincinnati Art Museum. In this portion of her exhibit, visual artist Gillian Wearing has created a multi-screen video piece that includes ideas of memory, identity, and photographic imagery.
Read MoreDo you believe in equality of genders? Cool, then you’re a feminist.
Do you prefer the Urban Dictionary definition of a feminist instead? Okay, maybe you’re not one.
But I say “maybe” because I don’t really know you, and I don’t want to make a blanket assumption. I get frustrated by blanket assumptions, especially those related to the topics of gender equality, women’s rights, and the people who believe in those things.
Read MoreJamie Beringer co-founded Bicycle Recycle with Dave Lodder while sitting in her driveway one day. Four years later, the service nonprofit is still going strong, repairing donated bikes and gifting them to children in need through partnerships with organizations including Butler County Children Services and Family Promise.
Read MoreMost people will say that it is okay to live with uncertainty, but Stephanie Wittels Wachs made me realize in her novel, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss, that it is better to acknowledge the pain than to hide it.
Read MoreBombASSbabes is a mini-series celebrating the tenacious broads of Cincinnati. The short films explore a sundry of hobbies, skills, and enthusiasms women choose to pour their creative energy into. Session 6 features Danielle, a lifelong artist who, for the past 10 years, has used pole dancing as a way to tap into strength, expression, and sensuality.
Read MoreOver the last week, our team ventured out to teach the community about advocacy, learn about funding for filmmaking, and meet more incredible people in our community. Keep reading to hear more about the events!
Read MoreThe main thing I took away from meeting with Renee Webeler is her love for her family and community. Her family’s warmth is shared even with strangers, displayed as soon as I pulled up to meet her at the greenhouse during a particularly nasty downpour and her husband raced out to escort me in. The humidity and technicolor of the lush greenhouse is almost transcendent; I forget I’m even in Cincinnati.
Read MoreAllyson Clifton is a practicing music therapist who currently provides services to the Cincinnati and southeastern Indiana areas with a private practice called Keys for Success. There, she works with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, helping them to set and accomplish goals and improve their quality of life through the art of music.
Read MoreThe “I Love Me” Women’s Empowerment Conference was truly empowering indeed. So often women can forget or sideline loving themselves because they are so busy caring and loving others. This empowerment event focused primarily on reclaiming that love.
Read MoreThe inaugural Cindependent Film Festival at the Woodward Theater took over Main Street in OTR for three days straight from August 23 to August 25. Several filmmakers from around the globe came to see what an independent festival in Southwest Ohio was cooking up.
Read MoreForm a successful collaboration with other powerful women and change the game – phenomenally.
Read MoreLyndsey Scott has led a successful modeling career with famous designers such as Calvin Klein, Prada, Louis Vuitton – notably known for her walk down the runway as a Victoria’s Secret angel. Without question, society has accepted all of the grand feats that Scott has accomplished in the modeling industry, but there is one skill set she has that many just can’t seem to grapple.
Read MoreI first met Yashira at the Women’s March, when I was a young, nervous intern dealing with the stress of interrupting random people chanting in our city streets. Yashira was the experienced photographer to balance out my sketchy interviewing skills, and together, we bonded over our first Women’s March experience and contemplated which people to interview.
Read MoreLauren Morris of Retirement Plan Advisors is not your typical financial planner. Instead of figuring out how to quickly make someone lots of money, Morris listens and connects with her clients. She figures out what drives, motivates, and inspires them, then works with them to create a purpose for their money.
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