Here are some young women I have had the priveldge to meet who that inspire me, that will cheer you up and lift your spirits. Why young women - because they don't start by given advantages - they create their own advantages through their persistance for themselves and others. Here are some amazing human beings who will make you reach farther!
Pauline.
Pauline Ranjbar is an actress and former Miss Universe Canada and Miss Earth contestant living in Hollywood who started "Be about it" - a no nonsense movement about doing good, and getting it done. It will inspire you this year to stop talking, and start doing.
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Ashley.
This woman, Ashley Callingbull is amazing. When I met her she was a drama school and physics student at university and now she has graduated and is an actress with ACTRA, acheiving her dreams and works as a motiviational speaker especially with first nations and other youth, inspiring them to acheive their dreams. She has spoken at Harvard, won many awards and always focuses on being an inspiration-mode, to inspire other youth to acheive their dreams. She grew up on one of the more dangerous reserves in Canada, growing in extreme povert and violence and yet she didn't give up and achieved her dreams and is still a beautiful kind humble caring wonderful person. CBC (Canada's BBC) - http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/2011/12/ashley-callingbull.html
An interview on CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/2012/02/ashley-callingbull-1.html
An interview:
Afrah
Afrah is an inspiring Yemeni journalist in exile in Sweden whose work during the revolution in Yemen as a blogger and journalist had her blog recommended by CNN as one of the top 10 blogs to follow on the Middle East. Here it is: http://afrahnasser.blogspot.ca/
Elena
Another inspiring woman, Elena Semikina won Miss Universe Canada. When she heard former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor's story about how Canadian diplomats saved American lives in Tehran, she wanted to create a documentary. When Argo came out, it did not tell the true story of what happened and she was even more determined to create a documentary, found two co-producers. It was in the selection of the Toronto Film Festival and top reviews. Here is an interview on it.
Summer:
Summer Anne Ross is an amazing tech enterpreneur behind Sugar Salt Social, and guest judges for Zuckerberg media's Dot Complicated, started by Randi Zuckerberg, and started the successful charity event Santa Comes to Bay Street that brings Christmas to so many homes that can't afford presents http://www.sctbs.ca/http://dotcomplicated.co/content/2013/04/like-or-dislike-4/
Manal
I met Manal Sharif in Cairo and she is an incredibly beautiful and decent human being. She is very intelligent and articulate, a white hacker for a corporation Armaco, and braved jail and the Saudi religious police to start #SaudiWomen2Drive and here is the TED talk that will get you off your chair, and make you say if she is that brave and can do it, I can do anything!
http://www.ted.com/talks/manal_al_sharif_a_saudi_woman_who_dared_to_drive.html
Fabi
Fabiola Addamo is a very inspiring artist and tech enterpreneur revolutionizing art. She works at IMVU, has worked at Yahoo, Google, while also exhibits art world wide from galleries to iPhone covers. She came to Silicon Valley as an immigrant, worked at bakery to pull her way through school again in San Francisco, and landed a job there. https://www.techwomen.org/cultural-exchange/dreams-do-not-die-at-sunrise
" believe in courage. And, I believe that everything is possible in life.
In the city of Catania I was an unemployed girl, full of dreams. I finished my degree in piano performance at the Vincenzo Bellini Musical Institute in 1996. Despite the fact that I was a young, award winning, talented pianist, I was never able to secure concrete job opportunities. I also attended law school and completed 11 out of 22 exams required to finish the degree. This was before I took off on a trip to the United States.
In my household I am the first person who attended university. I was never exposed to professional career options at home. My dad worked in a bank and my mom was a housewife. We were an average Sicilian family. During my youth, I often felt like a bird with clipped wings. I was never able to understand the reason why life was predictably flat.
Fabi went on to be a succesful artist, mentor women around the world through Tech Women, travel the world, work for inspiring tech companies, and start her own business as an art tech enterpreneur.
Pauline.
Pauline Ranjbar is an actress and former Miss Universe Canada and Miss Earth contestant living in Hollywood who started "Be about it" - a no nonsense movement about doing good, and getting it done. It will inspire you this year to stop talking, and start doing.
.
Ashley.
This woman, Ashley Callingbull is amazing. When I met her she was a drama school and physics student at university and now she has graduated and is an actress with ACTRA, acheiving her dreams and works as a motiviational speaker especially with first nations and other youth, inspiring them to acheive their dreams. She has spoken at Harvard, won many awards and always focuses on being an inspiration-mode, to inspire other youth to acheive their dreams. She grew up on one of the more dangerous reserves in Canada, growing in extreme povert and violence and yet she didn't give up and achieved her dreams and is still a beautiful kind humble caring wonderful person. CBC (Canada's BBC) - http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/2011/12/ashley-callingbull.html
An interview on CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/2012/02/ashley-callingbull-1.html
An interview:
Afrah
Afrah is an inspiring Yemeni journalist in exile in Sweden whose work during the revolution in Yemen as a blogger and journalist had her blog recommended by CNN as one of the top 10 blogs to follow on the Middle East. Here it is: http://afrahnasser.blogspot.ca/
Elena
Another inspiring woman, Elena Semikina won Miss Universe Canada. When she heard former Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor's story about how Canadian diplomats saved American lives in Tehran, she wanted to create a documentary. When Argo came out, it did not tell the true story of what happened and she was even more determined to create a documentary, found two co-producers. It was in the selection of the Toronto Film Festival and top reviews. Here is an interview on it.
Summer:
Summer Anne Ross is an amazing tech enterpreneur behind Sugar Salt Social, and guest judges for Zuckerberg media's Dot Complicated, started by Randi Zuckerberg, and started the successful charity event Santa Comes to Bay Street that brings Christmas to so many homes that can't afford presents http://www.sctbs.ca/http://dotcomplicated.co/content/2013/04/like-or-dislike-4/
Manal
I met Manal Sharif in Cairo and she is an incredibly beautiful and decent human being. She is very intelligent and articulate, a white hacker for a corporation Armaco, and braved jail and the Saudi religious police to start #SaudiWomen2Drive and here is the TED talk that will get you off your chair, and make you say if she is that brave and can do it, I can do anything!
http://www.ted.com/talks/manal_al_sharif_a_saudi_woman_who_dared_to_drive.html
Fabi
Fabiola Addamo is a very inspiring artist and tech enterpreneur revolutionizing art. She works at IMVU, has worked at Yahoo, Google, while also exhibits art world wide from galleries to iPhone covers. She came to Silicon Valley as an immigrant, worked at bakery to pull her way through school again in San Francisco, and landed a job there. https://www.techwomen.org/cultural-exchange/dreams-do-not-die-at-sunrise
" believe in courage. And, I believe that everything is possible in life.
In the city of Catania I was an unemployed girl, full of dreams. I finished my degree in piano performance at the Vincenzo Bellini Musical Institute in 1996. Despite the fact that I was a young, award winning, talented pianist, I was never able to secure concrete job opportunities. I also attended law school and completed 11 out of 22 exams required to finish the degree. This was before I took off on a trip to the United States.
In my household I am the first person who attended university. I was never exposed to professional career options at home. My dad worked in a bank and my mom was a housewife. We were an average Sicilian family. During my youth, I often felt like a bird with clipped wings. I was never able to understand the reason why life was predictably flat.
Fabi went on to be a succesful artist, mentor women around the world through Tech Women, travel the world, work for inspiring tech companies, and start her own business as an art tech enterpreneur.
