Teach Her How To Face Risk...Rachel Simmons

If you give a ten-year old girl the skills to tell her friend to stop bossing her around, you begin helping her flex the muscles that she will need to ask for something difficult in the workplace years down the road. If you give a 13 year old girl...the courage, the access to the courage to walk past those friends, she starts building the skills set she will need to face risk.


--Rachel Simmons, Author, Educator, and Coach

Twice a month on Tuesdays, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. This week, Rachel Simmons is featured. She helps girls and young women grow into authentic, emotionally intelligent and assertive adults. 

Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, and The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. A graduate of Vasser, she attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. Rachel has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, is a Today Show contributor, and appears regularly in the national media. Currently, she is the founder and program director of the Girls Leadership Institute.

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