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The women, in their own words.

Long-form profiles of the women inside the WOW pack. Founders, mothers, coaches, change-makers. Original writing and conversations gathered from the rooms, the retreats, and the wider WOW circle.

Milica Clayton
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Milica Clayton: living and learning.

From Serbia to the Gulf, from a teen caregiver to an executive coach. Milica's life as a rich collage of chapters and the quiet belief that you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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More from the pack.

An ongoing archive of WOW women. Long-form profiles, essays and conversations from across the pack. New writing added regularly.

Susanne-Kikki Israelsson

Susanne-Kikki Israelsson: Reframing Life In Post-pandemic Era

A pandemic that brought the world to its knees, and the slow, considered work of standing back up.

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Lizette B. Suxo

Lizette B. Suxo: Language Is The Soul Of A Culture

On learning Aymara as an act of remembering. A first-generation Bolivian-American on resistance, repair, and what is lost when a language goes quiet.

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Claire Dreyer

Claire Dreyer: Living Consciously

A life lived with intention, clarity and purpose. Claire's journey across industries, countries and challenges, and the choice to keep growing.

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Leah Sweet

Leah Sweet: Weathering the Gender Bias Storm

Working inside an environment that talks down to you, underestimates you, overlooks you, and choosing to love the work anyway.

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Ann Beatty

Ann Beatty: Education Beyond The 3Rs

On the impact of poverty on getting an education, and the unglamorous work of widening the door.

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Merly Barlaan

Merly Barlaan: Peace Begins With Me

What happens when the master plan slows down or fails. A quiet account of starting over, with peace as the first step.

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Michelle Ressa Aventajado

Michelle Ressa Aventajado: Motherhood Inspires Advocacies

Writer, teacher, TV host and social enterprise founder. On the unwavering kind of love that shapes a whole life of advocacy.

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Jenica Dizon-Mountford

Jenica Dizon-Mountford: A Thirst For Serving Others

In a city where most can't trust the tap, one woman's work to make clean water something everyone can drink.

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AI and Talent Sustainability

AI and Talent Sustainability: Putting Heartware In Hardware

What sixty-five years of imagined futures got right, and what it still gets wrong about the women holding the work.

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Embracing Multiculturalism In Supervisory Relationships

Embracing Multiculturalism In Supervisory Relationships

On not needing to step outside the house to experience multicultural clashes, and what that means for how we lead.

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