Dear Foundation Members
Welcome to the latest issue of Conscious, The Aspire Foundation’s On-Line Magazine.
If you’ve ever visited this page of Aspire’s Website before, you’ll see that we have made a few changes to the style and to the format. I hope you like it. Why, have we done it? The answer is simple. We want Conscious to be your must-visit On-Line Magazine, where you can discover what we have been doing and where we are going. There will be features, news items, suggestions and regular reminders of upcoming Forums, Interviews and more. We also want your input to so please feel free to contact us at Conscious@theaspirefoundation.org with your ideas, your stories, your recommendations and your thoughts.
2010 was a fantastic year for us, but we are sure that 2011 promises to be an even more amazing year for both Aspire and The Aspire Foundation, as we grow on our previous strengths and with your help and continued support build a voice to be reckoned with around the World. Thank you.
The New Year will also see the launch of The Heroine’s Quest, an amazing journey which we are all really excited about. I’ll say no more about that here, but keep reading (Coming out of the Shadows – The Heroine’s Quest) to discover both what it promises to be and why we feel it is a much needed and much-overdue journey for extraordinary – ordinary – women everywhere.
Enjoy!
Sam
Dr. Samantha Collins
Founder of The Aspire Foundation and CEO of Aspire Companies
COMING OUT OF THE SHADOWS – The Heroine’s Quest
If you Google the word ‘Hero’ you get over 231 million responses in less than a tenth of a second. Do the same with the word ‘Heroine’ and first thing you are asked is “Do you mean that?” or ‘Tragic Heroine’. Once you confirm your choice, dropping the word ‘tragic’ as you wonder why that should be instantly assumed as a necessary adjective to describe a woman of courage, the number of results is a mere 17 million and take far longer than a tenth of a second to appear on your screen ...
SHE WAS ONLY…
A WASHERWOMAN – Catherine (Kitty) Seaward was an Irish immigrant living in Liverpool in the 1800s scraping a living washing linen. However when the cholera epidemic reached her neighbourhood she opened her doors to the afflicted, offering them clean clothes and bedding to ward off the risk of infection and later helped and educated the many local children left parentless ...
NEWS…
MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH ONE KEY STROKE
For The Aspire Foundation and for Aspire itself, 2010 has been an amazing year filled with exciting challenges, new developments and an incredible feeling of a growing network of like minded women. Through the Interviews, Forums and Seminars (to say nothing of our 2010 Symposium in London on the evening of 18th November) we have developed a really strong feeling of community and shown what can be achieved when a group of Extraordinary – ordinary – Women come together and work as one ...
NEWS…
WHO IS YOUR HEROINE?
Everyone has a heroine whom they admire and respect.
It could be someone close to you who you see and talk to regularly or perhaps it is someone in the news or on television, who you may never get the chance to meet (though, of course, you never know…), but whose passion, dedication and drive has an amazing impact on the way you think and the way you live your life every single day...
'Tearing Up the Rule Book'
A New Generation of Women Leaders for 2010.
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this month on conscious:
Latest ideas and thinking in ethical leadership, sustainability, corporate responsibility, activism and social entrepreneurship...