Lauren Brown
AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE LEADER, STORYTELLER & AUTHOR
A gender equity advocate, actress, and humanitarian, and fearless journalist walk onto the Workhuman® Live mainstage and the above quote from Margaret Mead flashes through my head. Change, indeed, is happening in how we think about respect, equality, and dignity in the workplace. It’s being driven by citizens across the country. But this small group, these three very different people are some of the leading voices in the #MeToo movement – they are the sparks that ignited this fire ...
Published on LinkedIn
I was wracking my brain a couple of weeks ago trying (and failing) to come up with some cool blog ideas that would engage my readers (if you have any requests, I’d love to hear them), but then something dawned on me. It’s the question people usually ask when they discover I’m an indie author and probably the most practical bit of knowledge I can drop on you: How’d I do it?
Published on LinkedIn
Despite what sappy rom-coms have been projecting in front of us for years, not all endings are happy. They also aren’t something that’s necessarily done with fanfare. We’ve all done it – ended a relationship, quit a job, lost a friend. And many of us have probably been on the receiving end of those scenarios as well – dumped, fired, ditched. But while such occasions are never fun, they also don’t have to be dramatic or negative.
Published on Hello Giggles
They say there are two times in life – the now and the too late. This rang true for me the other day when I went to look up an old friend. We were very close in college, but our friendship ended on a sour note a few years after graduation, and it’s been more than a decade since we spoke. Her presence in my life was a lovely one, but it was also worrisome. She was going through something and I had no idea what it was, but there was a strain – that horrible walking on eggshells feeling ...
Published on Hello Giggles
It has been debated whether or not William Shakespeare, the actor and playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon, actually wrote the ingenious productions first performed at the Blackfriars Theatre and The Globe, and still considered some of the greatest literary works of all time. While there are a host of conspiracy theories pointing to many of his contemporaries like Edward de Vere, Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe as the real creators of his works, some believe the true author may have been a member of the fairer sex.
Published in Minerva Mag
What young girl wouldn’t be enamored with David Bowie channeling a Victorian Goth, vampire pirate as Jareth, the Goblin King? While I liked the whimsy of Jim Henson's box office flop turned cult classic, Labyrinth, as a child, watching it as a teen, I found myself identifying with Sarah. I’ve always felt that Labyrinth is more than a simple coming-of-age story or fairytale. For me, it's a becoming-a-woman story – one to draw lessons from.
Published in Minerva Mag