Today as I celebrate each of YOU and what makes YOU unique individuals, I am also celebrating all of the things that connect us as women! 💜

I am also reminded that WE still have a long way to go for women’s rights, our education, our pay equity and our equal representation in society as a whole. Many women and girls are still, in 2025 grossly marginalized because of their race, social status, economic position, education and geographical location. 💚

Please, keep on speaking up, have an opinion, collaborate, stand up and straighten HER crown ladies. When WE work together for one another WE have a larger voice and can move the needle in the direction required to help those who will come after us to continue the work needed to create an equal and just society. I BELIEVE this is possible if WE all work together. 💜

Happy International Women’s Day to each of YOU!

Be kind. Share more joy. Stand up for others. Elevate other women. Collaborate more often.

xo, Marcia

#IWD2025#empoweredwomenempowerwomen

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    Lynn Pender

    For every woman this is for you. Because at the end of the day We are Strong, Smart, Resilient but Most Importantly WE ARE POWERFUL!! So for all those who think that just because we’re woman, this is for you!!

    I’m done listening to the critics, the naysayers and the know it alls.
    Everyone seems to have an opinion about who I am or how I should be, and truthfully, none of them have a clue about who I really am.
    They want to tell me what I should do, how I need to act or what choices I should make.
    No more will I let others determine who I am or where I go.
    Ignoring my heart and heeding the words of others who aren’t in my shoes has left me with a broken heart, empty soul and lack of purpose.
    So, it’s my time to take back my life and make the choices I should have made long ago.
    I’m chasing the dreams that I’ve put aside too long, making myself happy in the ways that matter most to me, and I’m taking the time to recharge my soul..
    It’s been running on empty too long.
    I’m not just burning down the bridges to the places and to the people I never should have been, I’m setting the whole place on fire ,
    Starting with my passions that I’ve ignored for most of my life.
    All that seeking approval from people who don’t matter about things that aren’t important?
    I’m done with that and I’m never looking back.
    What matters to me is the person staring back at me in the mirror.
    I want to be able to feel good about myself, love the person I am becoming and know that I’m doing what I want for the reasons that I care about.
    So, sorry not sorry if I don’t hear the people putting me down and judging the way I live my life,
    But their opinion of who I am doesn’t matter.
    What matters is what I think, what I feel and what makes me happy.
    I’m closing the chapter to all the negative energy, bad feelings and empty choices.
    I’m embracing the things that fill my soul, spark my heart and help me fall in love with the beauty of the moments all around me..
    Each and every day.
    This is my life and these are my choices..
    And I’m doing what I should have done long ago:
    I’m choosing happiness.
    My life, my way.
    I am and always will be all in,
    It’s the only way I know how to live.

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