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On Saturday, February 4, I will be participating in a Young Women's Conference hosted by Brentwood School here in Los Angeles. These young women attended The Women's Conference I hosted annually as California's First Lady and have now boldly declared that "It's Our Turn" -- to define being a young women, to be visionaries and entrepreneurs, to give back, to create healthy relationships, to find their own voice and to take the lead. What a pleasure it has been to watch the young women at Brentwood School take on the challenge of a young women's conference with such creativity, leadership and vision. One of the main messages of the women's conference I hosted was to 'pass it on' and I am thrilled that they were inspired by the message and then lived that message by taking what they learned and passing it on to their fellow students. My work has always been about guiding and encouraging people to move beyond their comfort zones and the labels that limit them to recognize their power to be Architects of Change. These extraordinary young women did just that. I am very proud of them and humbled to serve as Honorary Chair of their remarkable event.
January 12, 2012
In May of 2010 I lost my grandmother to complications of Alzheimer ’s disease. Along with the grief I felt watching my grandmother struggle with her memory loss, I also grieved for my mother as I watched her loose her mother to this heart wrenching illness.
Perhaps the most painful grief I felt was watching my own children and my sister’s children slowly...
January 30, 2012
I was just about to graduate from DePauw University and hoped to become a (management) consultant when I received the phone call that changed my direction and my life. A mentor of mine, Bill Oesterle, had an idea for...
February 1, 2012
Have you ever felt like you had a gift you were meant to share with the world? Or that there was some part of you that was locked up inside?
Well, that was me. To the outside world, I was living The Life. I was the only female SVP/Creative Director at one of the top ad agencies in Los Angeles, creating award-winning commercials for some of the biggest brands in America. (Think Don Draper from Mad Men minus the cigarettes and booze.)
It was the kind of Execu-Woman life I dreamed about in my twenties. At forty, it looked a lot better than it felt.
January 23, 2012
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1. What are your three words to live by? Why do these words guide your life?
Better, Why, Try
My parents taught me early that my job was to make the world a better place. I try to apply this standard to everything I undertake. How can I be better? My family says that my answer to everything is why, which is the basis of scientific inquiry but also of relationships. Why is she acting that way? Why do we get breast cancer? Finally, I find too many people just accept the status quo. Why? I think we have to try to make it better! I may not find the cause of breast cancer but it won’t be because I didn’t try!
2. What does being an "architect of change" mean to you?
The key to real, lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It’s what you think. To shift your behavior, start by transforming your thoughts.
Lisa Oz
February 2, 2012
I grew up traveling all over the United States, Central America, and Europe. My father was in the U.S. Army, so we never stayed any place for very long. For the most part, I didn’t mind it -- changing environments and schools was simply a fact of life for us.
I learned not to depend on environment for consistency. Instead, I found it in my family, in my interests, and most of all in literature, my most constant of companions.
The one place I absolutely did not rely on consistency was in my public school education. It was evident to me very early on that my educational experience in the U.S. was directly related to the tax bracket of the county in which we were living. I was growing up in a culture and an educational system that preached fairness and equal opportunity and yet my personal experience within it was wildly erratic.
And so what if I was in a bad school for a year or two – I’d move. But what about the kids that were stuck there? They’d never even know that the education they were receiving was not equal to the one that more affluent children were receiving. And the thought that I was left with was that it was NOT FAIR.
Maria Shriver © 2011. All rights reserved.
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