Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Inspired Woman Magazine, October
By Paula Redmann What defines a leader? Is it a title, the number of direct reports, being a celebrity, being “famous,” (whatever that means to you), years of success, a diploma, or a series of capitalized letters after a name? Trying to define leadership kind of...
Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Inspired Woman Magazine, October
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And for the staff at Ruth Meiers, the same applies when it comes to feminine hygiene products. Last spring, they received a truck and trailer filled with feminine hygiene products and have been brainstorming ways to share...
Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Inspired Woman Magazine, October
Nina Loeks is pretty confident she was put on this earth to teach art. The past few months have reaffirmed that. “I have worked most of my life in education. I have taught art, but last spring I was teaching preschool and missed teaching art. So I put up a website and...
Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Inspired Woman Magazine, October
Behind every good man is a good woman. Mary DuBord would argue that oftentimes behind a good woman, there’s another good woman. Mary started her business, The Wife’s Wife, in the spring of 2017. “My husband was trimming hedges for someone and they asked if he cleaned...
Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Inspired Woman Magazine, October
By Kylie Blanchard ⼁Submitted Photos The Women’s Leadership Program, a program of the Women’s Business Center within the Center for Technology and Business in Bismarck, has been empowering women leaders in North Dakota since 1999. The statewide effort focuses on key...
Sep 28, 2017 | 2017, Inspired Woman Magazine, October
By Jody Kerzman ⼁Submitted Photo Of all the challenges I’ve faced in my 42 years of life, raising daughters might be the toughest one yet. Tougher than that economics class I had to take in college. Tougher than recovering from knee surgery in my late 20s. Tougher...