Michele Weldon

Chicago

Author, journo @theopedproject @takeleadwomen, emeritaprof @MedillSchool, @TEDxspeaker, 3 sons, 7 books. Latest: The Time We Have: Essays on Pandemic Living

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The Power To Let Go of Perfection, Reclaim My Power — Take The Lead

1 week ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

By Courtney ClaghornWhen I started SUGARED + BRONZED with just $1,000 and a few sugar waxing kits in my apartment, I wasn’t chasing a multi-million-dollar business. I was simply obsessing over the possibility that I might build something that gave me the freedom to shape my life on my terms. Fast forward to today: we have locations across the country, a growing team, and a brand built on confidence and care. In the process, there were many twists, turns, and transformations.
Job Search? 7 Ways To Pivot With Purpose and Success In Mind — Take The Lead

1 week ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

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Happy 500! Take The Lead Delivers To You 500 Award-Winning Newsletters — Take The Lead

2 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

The newsletter’s goal is to keep subscribers updated with the latest useful resources to improve their career paths and stay informed on the latest strategies and developments for business, economic and leadership success, personally and professionally. Covering trends in AI, small business, entrepreneurship, and large corporations, the newsletter offers readers on multiple levels of career development the tools they need to succeed.
Launching A Movement: Hope Holds Power To Enact Change — Take The Lead

3 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

A 2024 University of Chicago study examines the impact of stories on social movements. “Stories can inspire and propel people’s individual and collective action to unite social movements.” There are “two types of essential social movement stories: individual me and movement we stories. Stories of me are the personal stories of individual changemakers.
Here's Why Going Back to School Later in Life Can Be Great

3 weeks ago | aarpethel.com | Michele Weldon

Would you like to make new friends and connect with other older women? Then join our closed Facebook group, The Ethel Circle, today. You'll love it!I had forgotten how to roller skate backwards. It had been at least 40 years since I tried, but I was hellbent on relearning how to turn around and glide in reverse. The weekly amateur roller derby classes I took for six years, starting at 52, solved that problem.
Making the Best of it All

3 weeks ago | westsuburbanliving.net | Michele Weldon

Sunrise, sunset — whether they are clearly visible or not — come with a guarantee. Though the arrival of each day or night comes at a different time, depending on where you live, it is a reliable juncture nonetheless. Sunrise or shortly thereafter is when the routines are launched, from morning runs to coffee runs, dressing for work, the tennis court or golf course, lunch-making, deal-making and to-do listing.
The Power To Turn Advocacy Into Action To Redefine Accessibility — Take The Lead

4 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

By Jessica Fabus ChengWhen my cousin tripped over an inaccessible sidewalk outside a medical office and prematurely became a wheelchair user, something in me shifted. As a young healthcare practitioner, I was used to advocating inside hospital walls, but witnessing that moment made me realize that systemic barriers outside those walls could be just as devastating. I knew then that speaking up wasn’t optional—it was necessary.
Power Sources: Learn The Stories of Women Changing Systems Past, Present, Future — Take The Lead

4 weeks ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

Book sales in the U.S. are healthy, Statista reports in 2024,” Print book sales figures have improved and unit sales now consistently surpass 700 million per year.
Create a Movement from Chaos: How to Change the Present and the Future — Take The Lead

1 month ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

See more in Take The Lead on Lilly LedbetterBecoming involved in the political process can start early, according to a new study at the University of Notre Dame. Researchers “found that when women candidates run for office, the adolescent girls who see them are more likely to vote when they’re of age to do so,” The Story Exchange Reports. “The team involved in the study followed some 6,000 adolescent girls on their respective journeys to adulthood, beginning their research effort in 2002.
Early Signs: Seeing Successful Role Models Plus Mentorship Helps Young Girls, Women — Take The Lead

1 month ago | taketheleadwomen.com | Michele Weldon

When they see it, they can not only be it, they can succeed. A new global study of nearly one million people from adolescence to adulthood shows that teenage girls 13-16 more often become successful entrepreneurs by the time they are 35-40 than boys do. They also are more successful than girls that same age who are not seeing successful entrepreneurs in these formative years.

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Articles

The Power To Let Go of Perfection, Reclaim My Power — Take The Lead

Job Search? 7 Ways To Pivot With Purpose and Success In Mind — Take The Lead

Happy 500! Take The Lead Delivers To You 500 Award-Winning Newsletters — Take The Lead

Launching A Movement: Hope Holds Power To Enact Change — Take The Lead

Here's Why Going Back to School Later in Life Can Be Great

Making the Best of it All

The Power To Turn Advocacy Into Action To Redefine Accessibility — Take The Lead

Power Sources: Learn The Stories of Women Changing Systems Past, Present, Future — Take The Lead

Create a Movement from Chaos: How to Change the Present and the Future — Take The Lead

Early Signs: Seeing Successful Role Models Plus Mentorship Helps Young Girls, Women — Take The Lead

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