empowerment – ᘡ Adventures with the Estrogen Army ᘠ

Helping Jennifer Grow Gardens in Honour of My Mum’s 76th Birthday through our 27th Kiva Loan

Sue Braiden
June 18, 2016June 18, 2016
Kiva Divas
aquaponics, birthday, California, celebration, crowd-funding, drought, education, empowerment, entrepreneurs, Gandi, gardens, Kiva, memories, mother, poverty, start-up, sustainable communities, teachers, tribute, uplift, volunteering, women-at-risk

Today would have been my mother's 76th birthday. She was the original "Adventure Diva" and the inspiration behind the "Adventures with the Estrogen Army" project. She loved to garden. When we celebrated her life on the... Read more

Tomorrow is 90. Today’s the day to do it! (…or as Lorraine says: time to grab life by the balls!)

Sue Braiden
June 11, 2016June 11, 2016
Pep Talks, The Viewing Room
ageing, appetite, authenticity, boldness, dreams, empowerment, enthusiasm, fearlessness, fulfillment, happiness, hunger, joie de vivre, joy, mindfulness, New York, pep talks, perspective, procrastination, purpose, reflection, reinvention, sass, spark, video, wholeheartedness, wisdom, zest

Every now and then someone points me in the direction of an "Adventure Diva" that's is just so full of sass that I end up with tears rolling down my cheeks for hours after from laughing so hard. 90-something New... Read more

Letting go of trauma to clear the way for Adventure

Sue Braiden
May 17, 2016June 27, 2016
Pep Talks, Safety
Boston, courage, danger, empowerment, fear, fearlessness, freedom, healing, healthy choices, hope, joy, lessons, letting go, memories, peace, perseverance, perspective, potential, power, reflection, resilience, safety, strength, tenacity, trauma, vulnerability, wisdom

Twelve years ago I was attacked on a subway platform in Boston as more than twenty people stood by and watched. No one intervened. When I finally broke free from my attacker, and was running for the stairs, I fell. ... Read more

God’s in the Clothing Business. No, really … (and he’s our 26th Kiva entrepreneur)

God is involved in the business of selling first-hand clothes. No, really. And the Estrogen Army invested in him today. A young man in Hoima, Uganda raises his younger siblings with the help of his older... Read more

Our Twenty-fifth Kiva Diva: Sarjita in Pakistan (April 2016)

Sajida is our April "Adventures with the Estrogen Army" Kiva entrepreneur. This is a particularly special investment. We tend to fund female entrepreneurs who are working to lift themselves out of poverty in developing countries where it... Read more

J. K. Rowling on the Power of Failure and Imagination

Sue Braiden
March 31, 2016August 10, 2019
Diva Celebs, Later in Life, Pep Talks, The Viewing Room
adaptability, authors, boldness, capacity, commencement, courage, daring, education, empowerment, failure, graduate, Harvard, hope, imagination, inspiration, reinvention, resilience, tenacity, truth, video, vulnerability, wisdom, worthy
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As adventure divas we may be faced with similar fears: we're too old, we don't have enough money, we don't have enough courage. These old scripts that we read from don't serve us well. They become... Read more

Our Twenty-fourth Kiva Diva: Rita in Bolivia (March 2016)

Sue Braiden
March 28, 2016August 10, 2019
Kiva Divas
artisan, artists, Bolivia, crowd-funding, empowerment, entrepreneurs, jewelry, Kiva, mother, poverty, start-up, uplift, widow, women-at-risk
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Rita is our March "Adventures with the Estrogen Army" Kiva entrepreneur. This 51-year-old mother of 2 lives in Tarija, Bolivia, and has been making costume jewelry for a year now. She dreams of opening her own shop, and we're... Read more

Our Twenty-third Kiva Diva: Natividad in Bolivia (February 2016)

Natividad is our February "Adventures with the Estrogen Army" Kiva entrepreneur. This 63-year-old widow and mother of 4 children lives in La Paz, Bolivia, and is rebooting her life after cataract surgery. She lives near a school and wants... Read more

Our Twenty-second Kiva Diva: Edith Beatriz in Bolivia (January 2016)

Sue Braiden
January 18, 2016August 10, 2019
Kiva Divas
artisan, artists, arts, Bolivia, crowd-funding, education, empowerment, entrepreneurs, Kiva, mother, poverty, start-up, teachers, uplift, women-at-risk
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Edith Beatriz is our January "Adventures with the Estrogen Army" Kiva entrepreneur. This 60-year-old retired teacher from Tarija, Bolivia has a dream, and we're helping her make it happen! Ever since she was very young she has wanted to... Read more

Ballet at 84! Carla Steenkamp Sheills’ Empowering Class.

Holy Estrogen Army moment, Batwoman! I had goosebumps watching this! Think that's a funny reaction? Watch this through to the end, and tell me when Prokofiev's "Dance of the Knights" comes on you don't get it. An empowering... Read more

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