Power...Purpose...Possibilities
International Women's Round Table on Global Leadership, New Orleans, December 6, 2008
We had a spectacular day on Saturday, December 6. Where to start???? Gosh, it's really hard because everything was GREAT. So, I'll just begin:
The team - from New York, San Francisco, North Carolina, Texas, and Ethiopa. It was so incredible to meet Friday night and look around the dinner table and see where all of us had traveled from to get here. Here we all were in New Orleans for our first International event. We were inspired just to see the team. I finally got to meet Jill Dubreuil who I have spoken with over the phone, late at night, to assist Jill with her first PWI event in Albany, NY this year. I was inspired by Jill's commitment to her event and she was inspired by my partnership, very cool!! We were bonded before we met so meeting was uber cool. Plus Jill brought her younger sister, Sarah, who at 23 is taking on an incredible project to stop bullying in schools!!
The team -- Laura Padilla from North Carolina, finally we got to meet. Oh, to put the face with the name. I got to witness Laura's skills, knowledge and creativity up front and personal - she makes the most awesome jewelry, beautiful...well she is an artisan.
There's so much to say about the team, I hope you can get a sense of how inspiring it was to meet the whole team the night before.
Plus a few of us went to the Make It Right NOLA offices the day before and met with the Director of External Affairs, Ware Smith, to learn more about MIR and share about PWI. PWI has declared our commitment to raise money for one of the houses. We also met with Cynthia Willard-Lewis after the event on Saturday at the Lower Ninth Ward, which she represents, and took photos with Cynthia. She showed us the monument and tribute to the lost lives in the ninth ward. We did not get to see Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie but we stayed a couple of blocks from their mansion and drove by a few times !!!
The event - wow, wow, wow. Pat Evans teaches non-profit leadership at the University of New Orleans, she was inspiring, funny, and electrified the group!! Judge Nadine Ramsey inspired us with her personal story of health challenges in her family and herself....authentically...humbly...it was incredibly moving and showed us how leaders have to deal with the same things yet continue to lead without it interfering...very inspiring.
But even more than the speakers, the attendees and the exhibitors, everyone, was powerful and had something to contribute. It was an amazing event, so much so that what happened was that the New Orleans connection was formed. We have powerful women of New Orleans who want to take the PWI ball and run with it and grow the connection there.
Better yet, the entire PWI team wants to come back to New Orleans in 2009 for our international event and we are planning it now.
The team - from New York, San Francisco, North Carolina, Texas, and Ethiopa. It was so incredible to meet Friday night and look around the dinner table and see where all of us had traveled from to get here. Here we all were in New Orleans for our first International event. We were inspired just to see the team. I finally got to meet Jill Dubreuil who I have spoken with over the phone, late at night, to assist Jill with her first PWI event in Albany, NY this year. I was inspired by Jill's commitment to her event and she was inspired by my partnership, very cool!! We were bonded before we met so meeting was uber cool. Plus Jill brought her younger sister, Sarah, who at 23 is taking on an incredible project to stop bullying in schools!!
The team -- Laura Padilla from North Carolina, finally we got to meet. Oh, to put the face with the name. I got to witness Laura's skills, knowledge and creativity up front and personal - she makes the most awesome jewelry, beautiful...well she is an artisan.
There's so much to say about the team, I hope you can get a sense of how inspiring it was to meet the whole team the night before.
Plus a few of us went to the Make It Right NOLA offices the day before and met with the Director of External Affairs, Ware Smith, to learn more about MIR and share about PWI. PWI has declared our commitment to raise money for one of the houses. We also met with Cynthia Willard-Lewis after the event on Saturday at the Lower Ninth Ward, which she represents, and took photos with Cynthia. She showed us the monument and tribute to the lost lives in the ninth ward. We did not get to see Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie but we stayed a couple of blocks from their mansion and drove by a few times !!!
The event - wow, wow, wow. Pat Evans teaches non-profit leadership at the University of New Orleans, she was inspiring, funny, and electrified the group!! Judge Nadine Ramsey inspired us with her personal story of health challenges in her family and herself....authentically...humbly...it was incredibly moving and showed us how leaders have to deal with the same things yet continue to lead without it interfering...very inspiring.
But even more than the speakers, the attendees and the exhibitors, everyone, was powerful and had something to contribute. It was an amazing event, so much so that what happened was that the New Orleans connection was formed. We have powerful women of New Orleans who want to take the PWI ball and run with it and grow the connection there.
Better yet, the entire PWI team wants to come back to New Orleans in 2009 for our international event and we are planning it now.
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Comment by Pam Terry on December 7, 2008 at 7:06pm - Thanks Karen for your comments - they are awesome. It was great meeting you at the PWI event. Karen, you are a special person. I look forward to hearing more about your event. Let me know how I can help.
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Comment by Karen Chabert on December 7, 2008 at 6:44pm
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Out of a slump and into the process of living life! I was encouraged to go to the event in new Orleans, sponsored by an organization I had never heard of. Unbeknownst to me, I had already been embraced by a Powerful Woman for the past several years! She came to see me Friday afternoon and reminded me of all I have to offer. I went Saturday and all I can say is, it was a strong message for me to get going on my life and stop putting it off. Last night, I lent my vast knowledge to a colleague in California and we are talking about putting on an event for private Investigators and how nurses, lawyers and PI's can work together. I spoke about the panel discussions held Saturday at PWI and how we need to have one for our conference. I will be looking for PWI to have a presence at our conference because my group who will be hosting the event is a yet ANOTHER group of powerful women who are called FLIP: Female Legal and Investigative Professionals.
Oh the empowerment we can do! Never forget that everyday, we make a difference in someone's life, no matter how small! Thank you so much, PWI!
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Comment by Pam Terry on December 7, 2008 at 6:23pm
- Eric O'Neal has written 28 books and twice Olympic champion in Karate. Eric was an exhibitor promoting his book LIONMAN which is a story about a boy who overcomes incredible odds to believe in himself and become a man of integrity, wisdom and strength and must take on teaching his values to 7 boys so they can become the same. Eric's story is very compelling. PLUS Eric became a member of PWI and there are talks of a Powerful Men International association!!
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