Month: March 2016

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand: We Can Do Better

By Kelly Diels / March 31, 2016 /

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is a problematic ideology of ideal femininity sold to us by the entrepreneurs and leaders we most trust, and hire.

Business Tip for Culture Makers: Hire Them When They’re Hungry. Hire Them on The Way Up.

By Kelly Diels / March 29, 2016 /

Income flow or lack thereof doesn’t tell me how evolved or talented someone is. We need to hire our emerging artists, activists and entrepreneurs.

#tbt Toes in the Sand but NO PEDI. Also, The Beauty Myth then and now.

By Kelly Diels / March 25, 2016 /

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is the new beauty myth. It’s a movement that stokes female insecurity and shame and then pretends to ameliorate it.

A Quick Note About Ambition and Women

By Kelly Diels / March 24, 2016 /

Women are the only ones shamed for being ambitious, and screw that. Ambition can be trained to serve your self-actualization and your great work.

Why I’m Writing About The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

By Kelly Diels / March 23, 2016 /

In the 90s, The Beauty Myth helped us deconstruct magazine images to decrease their destructive power. Now we need discernment tools for online media.

Five Egregious Internet Marketing No-Nos

By Kelly Diels / March 7, 2016 /

Refuse to perpetuate or replicate in your marketing + sales funnels the authoritarian, predatory and abusive dynamics you want to disrupt in the world.