New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reveals she is pregnant

From CNN authored by Emanuella Grinberg and Ben Westcott :

 

“New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed that she is pregnant, making her the first world leader since 1990 to be expecting a child while in office.

Arden said on Friday that she and her partner, Clarke Gayford, are due to have their first baby in June.
“Clarke and I are really excited that in June our team will expand from two to three, and that we’ll be joining the many parents out there who wear two hats,” she said in a Facebook post.
“I’ll be Prime Minister AND a mum, and Clarke will be ‘first man of fishing’ and stay-at-home dad.”
“I am not the first woman to multi-task, I’m not the first woman to work and have a baby, I know these are special circumstances but there will be many women who will have done this well before I have,” she said.”

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Abuse survivor confronts gymnastics doctor: ‘I have been coming for you for a long time’

From The Washington Post authored by Kyle Swenson:

“Two school pictures floated side-by-side on a projection screen in the Michigan courtroom.

Both images caught the same small girl  — in one, all gawky smile and bangs; the next, braces and long hair — a few years apart. Until this week, the child in the snapshots had been officially identified only as “Victim Z.A.” or “a family friend.”

But on Tuesday, Kyle Stephens, now a young woman, stepped out from the curtain of anonymity to directly address disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar before a judge in Lansing.

“I was the first to testify in this case, and worried of the attention that could come of that, I asked for complete anonymity,” Stephens explained, the pictures of her projected over her shoulder stemming from the time of her abuse. “I’m addressing you publicly today as a final step and statement to myself that I have nothing to be ashamed of.”

Stephens was the first of the nearly 100 survivors expected to testify at a four-day sentencing hearing for Nassar this week in state court. In November, the 54-year-old pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree sexual conduct with minors. Nearly 140 other survivors have accused  the former Michigan State University faculty member of assault, including Olympic superstars Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas.

 

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Why Stress Isn’t Necessary

From Above the Law authored by Kara Loewentheil:

“Have you ever said or thought any of the following:

  • If I’m not stressed-out about failing, I won’t do a good job.
  • I work best under pressure.
  • If I didn’t have stressful deadlines I’d never get anything done.

If you have, you’re not alone. One of the most pernicious myths that lawyers believe about themselves is that they “work best under pressure.” All my clients sign-up with me because they want to be less stressed, but when it comes down to it, and we start looking at their thoughts, it turns out they subconsciously think stress is serving them – and is actually necessary for them to achieve their goals.

You can see how this creates a problem. You feel stressed. You want to feel less stressed. But if your brain subconsciously believes the stress is necessary, it’s not going to give it up. The good news is that your brain is wrong. Stress actually isn’t necessary, and I’m going to show you why.”

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At Age 101, She’s A World Champ Runner

From NPR authored by Chhavi Sachdev:

“Man Kaur is 101, but her routine could tire most 20-somethings.

Every day she wakes up at 4 a.m., bathes, washes clothes, makes tea, recites prayers until about 7 a.m. Sometimes she goes to the Gurdwara, the place of worship for Sikhs, other times she prays at home.

And then she goes to the track for an hour of sprinting practice. And she’s not just doing it for fun. A competitive runner, Kaur is a world record holder in her age group for several categories and is now training for the Asia Pacific Masters Games in Malaysia next September.”

 

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Meet the 34-Year-Old Founder of Stitch Fix, Who Just Became One of America’s Richest Self-Made Women

From Time authored by Rob Wile:

“Katrina Lake founded Stitch Fix, the online personal shopping service, out of her apartment on the back of a failed startup idea.

Today, according to Forbes, Lake, now 34, has a 16.6% ownership in the company, which went public a month ago. And her net worth now approaching $500 million—making her one of the youngest, richest self-made women in America.

“If Lake makes the next iteration of the Richest Self-Made Women list, she’ll likely be one of the youngest women to do so,” Forbes says. “At present, only pop star Taylor Swift, 27, is younger.”

How did Lake get here?”

 

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The Gift of Failure

From Brave Enough:

“When doing scientific research, we expect to fail. In fact, we write the likelihood of negative findings into our protocols and plans. We expect things to not always work as we think they might, and we accept that we may not prove what we set out to prove.

In the scientific community, we depend on complete transparency when we fail. We depend on it to advance science, to help people, and to find the best treatments and drug therapies. We publish our failures and we learn from them.

We don’t get upset when we fail in research. We see it as equally important to figure out what doesn’t work as what does. We reevaluate and move forward.

Wouldn’t it be nice if failure in life was similar?

We have this unrealistic expectation that we won’t fail. We think that we shouldn’t ever fail, so we stay in our comfort zone where we know we won’t.”

 

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‘We have a responsibility’: CVS vows to stop altering beauty images in its ads and stores

From The Washington Post authored by Martha Eltagouri:

“CVS Pharmacy announced Monday that it will begin alerting customers when beauty images used in marketing campaigns or on social media have been digitally altered, and vowed to end touch-ups of its beauty images by the end of 2020.

The Rhode-Island-based company will launch the “CVS Beauty Mark,” a watermark that will begin appearing this year on beauty images that have not been materially altered — meaning the person featured in the image did not have their shape, size, skin or eye color, wrinkles or other characteristics enhanced or changed. CVS plans to work with key brand partners and industry experts to create specific guidelines that ensure transparency, the company said in a statement.

The move comes as more companies promote body authenticity and embrace the idea that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Seattle-based Getty Images in the fall announced that it would no longer carry creative content depicting models whose body shapes had been retouched to make them look thinner or larger. In 2016, the toy company Mattel introduced a line of Barbie dolls with three new body types — petite, tall and curvy — to change the beauty ideals girls are exposed to from a young age.”

 

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Four Tips for a Non-Traditional Legal Career

From Above the Law authored by Hannah Samendinger:

“As a General Counsel & Product Manager at Alt Legal, I really have an alternative legal career. I’m a lawyer. I review and draft all of our company’s legal work. I wear some variation of a Canadian tuxedo to work almost every day. I do customer support. I blog. I am the Product Manager, so I maintain the legal research to keep our platform running smoothly and find ways to use technology to solve legal problems. I host a podcast. I write a newsletter. I even order more Doritos when our office stash is low.

If you like rising to unique challenges, working on a wide variety of issues, and taking the lead on projects, I’d highly recommend the non-traditional path. However, law schools don’t do much to foster these kinds of careers, so I wanted to provide some guidance to students seeking careers outside of law firms and other traditional legal workplaces.”

 

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How to tackle impostor syndrome in the new year

From LinkedIn authored by Melinda Gates:

“But Patricia said her initial reaction to this news wasn’t pride or excitement—it was shock. She went as far as to suggest that the professor regrade the exam. She was so full of self-doubt that, even when presented with direct evidence of her abilities, her first instinct was to question it.

To a lot of you, this might sound familiar. If you’ve ever had a voice in your head telling you that everyone in the room must be smarter than you, that your success is due to luck instead of skill, or that the proper response to a compliment is a counterargument, you’ve experienced the symptoms of impostor syndrome, too.

Impostor syndrome strikes all kinds of people, but evidence suggests it’s especially prevalent among those who are underrepresented in their fields—for example, women and minorities working in tech. When you’re the only woman or person of color in the room, it can sometimes feel like you’re in the wrong room. As Proday Founder and CEO Sarah Kunst puts it, ‘There’s a saying about succeeding in the face of systemic oppression—’you have to be twice as good to get half as far.’ Impostor syndrome says the opposite, that somehow you are half as good and got twice as far undeservedly.’”

 

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Oprah’s Night at the Golden Globes Shined a Light on Her Epic Career. Here’s What We Know About Her Money

From Time authored by Alix Langone:

“Oprah Winfrey did more than make history Sunday when she became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th annual Golden Globe awards.

She gave an impassioned acceptance speech, championing women and the #MeToo and Time’s Up initiatives. She spoke about growing up poor in Milwaukee and how much it meant to her to watch Sidney Poitier become the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964.

“What a moment like that means to a little girl watching from the cheap seats as my mom came through the door bone tired from cleaning other people’s houses . . . At this moment there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given the same award, ” she said.

And she also kicked off a wave of calls on social media for her to run for president in 2020.

Oprah, 63, also thanked those who helped her get her start in the entertainment industry, where she made the bulk of her nearly $3 billion net worth over the course of her four-decade career. Indeed, well before her Golden Globes speech, Oprah broke ground by becoming one of the richest self-made women in America. Oprah’s net worth is an estimated $2.8 billion, according to Forbes Real Time Net Worth rankings.”

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