Healing Female Friendships – Michelle Obama

Repairing relationships and healing female friendships is the key to keeping friends for the long haul! (and to being healthy and happy). Here’s what Michelle Obama says about broken relationships and healing female friendships – plus several tips for repairing relationships.

“Women have to be able to champion other women,” said Michelle Obama in a recent issue of [...]

Letting Go of Other People’s Expectations – Maria Shriver

The life lesson: to be fully yourself – authentic and real – you have to let go of other people’s expectations. The successful woman: Maria Shriver, journalist and author of Just Who Will You Be?

“As long as I was trying to anticipate what people wanted from me, as long as I was trying to fulfill other people’s expectations, [...]

Living Your Own Life - Maria Shriver’s Advice to Michelle Obama?

Maria Shriver writes and speaks about living your own life and writing your own story. When I hear Michelle Obama share her goals for Barack’s term in the White House – such as creating an “Obama China pattern” – I wonder what Maria Shriver’s advice for her would be! After all, Shriver is a successful woman, [...]

Giving People the Benefit of the Doubt – Michelle Obama

The life lesson: giving people the benefit of the doubt can further your career and personal relationships! The successful woman: First Lady, Michelle Obama – who explained to Oprah why she now gives people the benefit of the doubt. 

“I think we should all have to get to know one another around kitchen tables,” said Michelle [...]