January is often a month of realignment. Realigning with schedules and with vegetables. :) For Pleasance Silicki, founder and owner of Lil Omm Yoga, January has also been an opportunity to realign her yoga business. For anyone who has contemplated entrepreneurship, don't miss this month's PowerChute. Pleasance describes finding her passion, recognizing a market opportunity, and reinventing the business when it hit an unexpected snag.
Read MoreReady to be inspired? It’s the season of giving and the time of year when everyone remembers the magic of being a child during the holidays. Nobody knows more about the importance of giving and the power of children than Judith Sandalow, Executive Director of the Children’s Law Center. During this very busy time of year, Judith took the time to talk with me about her passion, her path to leadership, and the culture she has intentionally created that allows her staff to be great at being both attorneys and parents. Check it out!
Read MoreDiane Gross knows a thing or two about being thankful. After working on the Hill for years, she and her husband, Khalid Pitts, took a risk and followed their dream – turning their passion for good wine and great communities into a popular neighborhood wine bar in DC. Cork Wine Bar, and its sister, Cork Market, have won countless awards – including most recently being listed as one of the best wine bars in the country. For this month's PowerChute, I sat down with Diane to learn more about how she has conquered turning her passion into a career.
Read MoreUrsula Mead, Co-Founder of InHerSight, is on a mission to measure how well employers support the women who work for them – and to turn those insights into better support for women in the workplace. In the process, Ursula and her co-founders are changing the way women choose where they work and the way that companies attract and retain their women employees. To launch a new monthly interview series, The PowerChute, highlighting stand out women in the paid workforce, we caught up with Ursula to hear more about what InHerSight is all about, and why it compels her to work 18 hour days.
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