We Have To Empower Each Other...Tamron Hall

"Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

If you keep running into a brick wall, as they say, don’t keep running into it. Find a way over it.

Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other."

--Tamron Hall, Journalist and Host/Executive Producer, Tamron Hall Show 

#LeadershipTuesdays: Pursue Purpose!...Nilofer Merchant

“Purpose is also a better motivator than money. Money, while necessary, motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. Purpose does.”

― Nilofer Merchant, "11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era"

Happy New Year! How are you doing on this second Tuesday of 2019? I hope your new year has gotten off to a great start. On Tuesdays, womenatliberty.com presents #LeadershipTuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. 

I really wanted to include a postscript in today's great quote by Nilofer Merchant. There's a bible verse that says 'money speaks to everything'. While we know that money cannot buy true love and genuine happiness, it is a necessary part of life. A lot of times women and minorities work hard and are hardly paid. Pursue your purpose, but remember to get paid and 'secure the bag', too. You got to do both in order to survive and thrive. Strive and work toward striking a balance between the two. Lastly, find a tribe who will love and support you unconditionally and beware of those who exploit others.  

Make sure you're following @LeadershipTues on Twitter to view our daily #LeadershipTuesdays posts that provides resources to help you develop and strengthen your leadership skills. We post videos and articles on trailblazing women and men who are successful leaders. Check us out!

Wishing you a purposeful and prosperous 2019 and your best year ever,

--Nona Ogunsula, Founder, 

womenatliberty.com & #LeadershipTuesdays

Make Your Own Choices...Amitabh Bachchan

"Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom."

--Amitabh Bachchan

#LeadershipTuesdays: Find Your Voice...Melinda Gates

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."

--Melinda Gates

On Tuesdays, womenatliberty.com presents #LeadershipTuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. Follow @LeadershipTues on Twitter for resources to help you develop your leadership skills and learn from other others who are successful leaders.

Give Yourself Some Credit...Tanya Burr

"Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself."

--Tanya Burr

Empower Her With Love

"Love is...

patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. Love is eternal."

Keep On Moving...Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The thing that we are challenged to do is to keep this movement moving. There is power in unity and there is power in numbers.

Keep this movement going. Keep this movement rolling. In spite of the difficulties, and we are going to have a few more difficulties, keep climbing. Keep moving. If you can't fly, run. If you can run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving."

--Martin Luther King, Jr., Excerpt from the speech, "Keep On Moving" at St. Luke's Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, May of 1963

To hear the entire excerpt that was featured on NPR, click here.

Don't Take The First No -- Keep Going...Cher

"Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner."

--Cher

Advice On Using Your Power...Sonya Parker

"Don't let power change you. Use your power to make changes."

--Sonya Parker 

Dreams Into Vision...Toni Morrison

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”


--Toni Morrison

President Barack Obama; Charles H. Ramsey, Police Commissioner--Philadelphia,
PA; and Brittany Packnett, Executive Director-Teach For America, St. Louis, MO

Your Life Has Purpose...R J Anderson

“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.”

 -- R. J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
 

The Power To Define Myself...Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

--Carol Moseley-Braun, 1st African American Woman To Become A U.S. Senator

Women Are Good Motivators...Bridget Macaskill

Women are naturally good motivators, good at juggling different projects and issues at the same time, and more cooperative rather than aggressive and confrontational.*
    
--Bridget A. Macaskill 

*Quote from Women in Business Quotes at http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Women%20in%20Business-page-0.htm

Continue To Climb...Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Leadership Tuesdays: Power...Beth Revis

“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him [her] stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his [her] strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”

― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders.  You are encouraged to read an article posted on our Women Making History Facebook page: Hillary Clinton Plans To Launch New Project To Empower Women by Ken Thomas. 

In this article, Mr. Thomas discusses a recent speech that Hillary Clinton gave in Philadelphia on a new initiative called, "No Ceilings" that will empower women and children around the world. Speaking to a group of 7,000 at a women's conference she said, "Ceilings around the world that prevent education and health care and jobs and opportunity are equally unacceptable, and we're going to be about the business of making sure those ceilings crack for every girl and every woman here and around the world. So let's get cracking."

To view or read past Leadership Tuesdays' features, please go to the WOMEN AT LIBERTY home page.

Leadership Tuesdays: Total Quality Leadership...Stephen Covey

Management must empower its people in the deepest sense and remove the barriers and obstacles it has created that crush and defeat the inherent commitment, creativity, and quality service that people are otherwise prepared to offer. To receive joy and pride in one's work is the right of all. To achieve total quality managers must become leaders, drawing from their people their greatest capacity to contribute ideas, creativity, innovative thinking, attention to detail and analysis of process and product to the work place. In other words, management must become empowering leaders.

--Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY presents Leadership Tuesdays, a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. To view today's feature, check the WOMEN AT LIBERTY home page.  

To read past Leadership Tuesdays' features on Debra Lee of BET, Dr. Amy Gutman of University of Pennsylvania, Rachel Simmons who delivers a TEDx Women Talk on resilience and more, click here.

Choose Your Reaction...Steve Maraboli

“You have the ability to choose your reactions.” 

--Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Leadership Tuesdays: Leadership Empowers...Myles Munroe

Leadership never exists for itself. It exists for the purpose of guiding others to a better future, enabling them to develop in greater ways, helping them to  improve themselves, and inspiring them to believe that anything is possible.  Leadership empowers.

--Dr. Myles Monroe, from the book, "Becoming A Leader"*

*Go to Myles Munroe International to purchase or for more information.

True Leaders Empower You...Rick Warren

True leaders empower you to do what you're afraid to do, don't know how to do, or have never believed you could do.

--Rick Warren, Author of "The Purpose-Driven Life" and Pastor of Saddleback Church, Southern California

Shalom...Katharine Jefferts Schori

“Shalom means that all human beings live together as siblings, at peace with one another and with God, and in right relationship with all of the rest of creation…. It is that vision to which Jesus points when he says, ‘today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.’ To say ‘shalom’ is to know our own place and to invite and affirm the place of all of the rest of creation, once more at home in God."

--Katharine Jefferts Schori, 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States

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. Today Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is featured. She is the first woman to be elected as the chief bishop or the highest leader of the Anglican Church in U.S. She was elected in 2006.

Bishop Jefferts Schori is responsible for initiating and developing policy for the Episcopal Church and speaks on behalf of the church regarding the policies, strategies, and programs of the church. Before her calling to the priesthood and subsequent ordination in 1994, she was an oceanographer. She has a B.S. in biology from Stanford University, an M.S. and Ph.D. in oceanography from Oregon State University, an M.Div. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

In today's video, Bishop Jefferts Schori talks about managing change within her church denomination, how she dealt with discrimination within the church, and the positive use of power. To view the Leadership Tuesdays' feature, click here. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays, see here.