[RECAP] Celebrating Women’s Month 2022

Hello, Local Guides

How are you doing? Another year passed by with the pandemic I hope everyone is doing very well and back to a busy life as normal :heart_eyes:

It was a privilege to celebrate Women’s Month with other Local Guides and our special Guest, Artha Julie Nava (“Julie”). Attendees are varied between Local Guides and personal friends and followers of the Speaker.

Caption: Women’s Month caption using Canva Design with “recap” writing

The meetup started on time at 9:30 AM lasted until 11:15 AM. A hiccup at the beginning with operating the slide ended up with a beautiful closing.

Caption: Collage photos of attendees and our special Guest Speaker (middle bottom photo)

Artha Julie Nave is an author published more than 25 books. She has been a journalist, consultant, social researcher, and writing mentor. Her contribution in helping people build their branding has been established since 2013.

My idea to have her in the 2022 International Women’s Month celebration is to share her amazing ideas about women and how to overcome obstacles in their carrier lives in general.

“What I love most is helping people communicate their brand through book writing, press releases, blog postings, and brand courses. When I’m not doing that, I’m reading, traveling, and enjoying good food (seafood and barbecues are the best!)‘’ said Julie!!!

Her services include:

  • personal branding blueprint program for individuals and companies

  • providing media communication services such as writing books, press releases, blog postings,

articles/essays to promote the brand

  • helping others to tell their story in an authentic way that would resonate with their audience

  • as ghostwriting and personal branding coach from 2013 – now.

With a total of 11 wonderful questions and answers, there are a couple of questions that I would like to quote it here:

Question: Have you run into any obstacles as a woman and if so, how did you overcome them?

Answer: Responsibility as a woman is more complex, being a mother, and being a wife. Balancing time and responsibilities in the family is very important. The role of our spouse who is willing to help will make life so much easier.

Question: What advice do you have for someone who had a carrier before marriage and childbirth and wishes to restart their carrier later in life?

Answer: The vacuum phase between having a carrier and family and trying to come back to carrier life again is the best time to reevaluate the quality a woman can offer to the world. Would prior carrier is still good or something else more intriguing? Any extra classes or short education will help to enhance the next carrier? Do not let being a mother or being a wife hold you back to be who you are.

Question: In today’s time, how do you think the role of a woman should be defined?

Answer: In my personal opinion I don’t look at women by gender but as human. Every human has the same right as others.

Question: Do you have any advice for young women in today’s time?

Answer: Be yourself, reach your goal, do not let anything hold you back.

The slide we presented in the meetup can be seen here.

Thanks to Julie, the Speaker, for her time and her knowledge shared with us!

Thanks to @360bymiftah who so kindly let me use his account to run more than an hour meetup. Thanks to my husband, Keith LaBeau, who is patiently supporting me in my meetup who always ready to jump in when there was a technical problem.

Thanks to @TravellerG for showing up early and giving support although you have another meeting. Thanks for your time!

Thanks to @Ddimitra @Velvel @Globe_trotter_Ish @RosyKohli @MukulR @Tejal (Shruti, Jay, Reaz, Nissa, Durojaiye, MD Kamal Hossen Rana, Anil, and others - I will tag you all in my comment below).

The last question I asked our Speaker is what do you know about Local Guides? She is so amazed at what the Connect program is about and requested me to explain more details out of the meetup.

Once again thank you so much, Julie and other attendees. Have a great day :wink:

This post will be part of the study guides for the Women Empowerment Challenge meetup #StateChallange scheduled for April 9th @11:30 EST run by @Denise_Barlock and @jayasimha78

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Tagging others @Shrut19 @Durojaiyeolaunde1 @Anil6969 @KamalHossenR @Annisa1208 and @RHoqueBD

@ErmesT thanks for helping me to insert slide into the post! I hope you heal quickly. Do not run chasing your cat now. Hugs!

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@Erna_LaBeau

Thanks for the recap. It was awesome meet up, was happy to listen to her, was glad very gracefully she answered my question. Once again thanks.

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@RosyKohli thank you for being there! Appreciate it :heart_eyes:

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Mucha gracias, mbak Erna!
thank you so much for the recap. It was really a wonderful event where I met with a lot of awesome new friends!

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It was really such an amazing and nice meet-up that I enjoyed a lot mbak @Erna_LaBeau . Thanks a lot for arranging this nice meet-up. I hope other attendees also enjoyed this a lot. Thanks a lot to our guest mbak @artha_julienava . I learned a lot from her nice discussion during this meet-up. A very special thanks to mbak Julie.

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@artha_julienava I thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts and advice for us women or someone’s mother’s, wives, nieces, aunties etc.

I am so glad you joined Local Guides Connect, I can’t wait to read your first post :heart_eyes:

FYI, if you want to tag a person so the person can get the notification please use the @sign followed by their Connect ID name :wink:

Here are some helpful info on how to become Local Guides:

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Help-Desk/Your-guide-to-Connect/ba-p/2287037#.YjkB_V-_BLA.link

And below is how to choose a topic:

https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Help-Desk/How-to-choose-a-topic-for-your-Connect-post/ba-p/2284888#.YjkRv8Z_2cc.link

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to reach us.

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@MukulR thank you so much for being an active participant and questions as well, Mas Mukul.

Yes I agree it was such a wonderful meetup. I love to see the women’s perspective in the eye of a very influential person @artha_julienava and thanks once again mbak Julie

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@Erna_LaBeau

thank you for the session it was nice to listen to her opinion and nice ideas.

Regards Tejal

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Thank you @Tejal for your support!

So kind of you to mention my name and include my logo in your beautiful post, our dear @Erna_LaBeau .

Well conceived and nicely presented with valuable information - congratulations.

Appreciate & respect the efforts of Artha Julie Nave.

My personal greetings to Mr Keith LaBeau and thanks for supporting our meetup.

I’m sure our dear friends, @Saiyen @CreativeCreature @Radhikasingla1 @mangatkan1961 will enjoy this post…

Regards with prayers

:pray: :bouquet: :heart:

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Once again thank you @TravellerG Sir for your support :pray:

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Great to have come across this post. Looking forward to being a part of more virtual meetups with the community. @Erna_LaBeau . Thanks to @TravellerG , for bringing me here!

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Namaskar…

** @Erna_LaBeau **

Thanks for Sharing very nice recap & I enjoyed your Hosting…

I always enjoy your company …

& thanks for being best guest

@artha_julienava

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@CreativeCreature it is nice to meet you here. I think this is the first time you visited my post, thank you!. Would love to have you in my or other friends’ meetup and cant wait to see you virtually.

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Hi Shruti @Shrut19 it’s nice to meet you here again. Thank you so much for supporting my meetup and sharing your wonderful question with us :kissing_heart:

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Thanks @Erna_LaBeau for Tagging me,

Yes I was fortunate to be a part of this meet up,

Keep inspiring be a torch bearer for woman

(The sister, Mother ,girlfriend wife and much much more)

the Most powerful species in the universe.

Regards

Anil

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Very sorry that I missed your question in the meetup @Anil6969 thank you for supporting my meetup! If you came very early I got a glitch in my slide hehehe if you were there I know you would be able to help thank goodness Keith was there!

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No problem @Erna_LaBeau

It was a successful meet up ,

and My best wishes are always with you.

Regards

Anil

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Thank you for hosting this meet-up @Erna_LaBeau ! It was really inspiring and the conversations were so much relatable ! Sorry that I was was travelling I could not attend till the end but it was a good one ! Thank you for the tag !

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