TMA Celebrates Women’s History Month
March 31, 2021
Today wraps Women’s History Month, a month where we remind ourselves of the accomplishments of women throughout the years to our culture and society. TMA’s Women’s Initiative led a month-long celebration, sharing weekly all-agency emails and Instagram stories with educational and inspirational resources for women and allies alike. Below you’ll find those resources, including podcast episodes, video content, books, trail-blazing women to follow, nonprofits to support, and more. May you be encouraged, inspired, and informed.
Women at Work + Intersectionality
PODCASTS:
- How I Built This: Bumble | Listen to how Whitney Wolfe Herd started Bumble from the ground up and has found major success as the youngest woman CEO to take a company public. 🐝💛
- Intersectionality Matters: Storytelling While Black and Female | Civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw explains the importance of inserting Black women into narrative spaces where they have been otherwise left out in order to become the authors of our own stories.
- Women Amplified: Courageous Conversations | This Conferences for Women podcast episode covers how allies can mobilize and ensure positive change within our work lives and communities while at a national tipping point around race, gender, and power. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
- Girlboss Radio: Sall Krawcheck Shares her Wall Street Career and How She Empowers Women Through Financial Feminism | Hear how CEO and founder of Ellevest Sallie Krawcheck turned a career on Wall Street into a mission to get more money into the hands of women and how we can narrow the gender investing gap by providing women with the right education and tools to become better investors. 💰
PEOPLE TO KNOW + ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW:
- Melissa Butler | CEO of Lip Bar 💄
- Payal Kadakia Pujji | Co-founder & CEO of ClassPass
- Meena Harris | Founder of Phenomenal and best-selling author 📚
- Margaret Zhang | Youngest Editor-in-Chief of Vogue China
BOOKS:
- Self Made: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant, and Rich in Every Way by Nely Galán
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
CONTENT:
- The Urgency of Intersectionality | This TedTalk by Kimberlé Crenshaw looks at the reality of race and gender bias and how the two can combine to create even more harm.
- The Future of Female Entrepreneurship: Girlhood Pipeline | How can we help more women become entrepreneurs? According to Cathrine Smith, we need to understand how we can actively engage the potential of girls.
- Workin’ Moms | Netflix TV series
- The Likeability Dilemma for Women Leaders | A revealing talk about implicit biases forces an honest look at how both genders often perceive successful women and their “likability.”
NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:
- WiNGS | Local to Dallas, WiNGS empowers women to be the best version of themselves when they enter every room. The organization has a full suite of tailored services to support women at every stage in their careers from skills and interview training, individualized coaching, resume writing, and business plan training. TMA gave a corporate donation to the organization this month.
Women Creatives
PODCASTS:
- Yeah That’s Probably an Ad: Women on Breaking Stereotypes | This Adweek podcast episode discusses what it takes to break the common stereotypes that follow women in a way that advances the ad industry together. 👊🏼👊🏾👊🏿
- Second Life with Rachel Zoe | Hear how Rachel Zoe juggles being a fashion powerhouse, stylist, author, entrepreneur, and mother in this personal interview.
PEOPLE TO KNOW + ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW:
- Adrienne Raquel | NYC based photographer and art director shooting for clients like GQ, Apple, Vanity Fair, Dior, Nike and more. 📸
- Sophia Amoruso | Renowned author and founder of Girlboss, a community for ambitious women.
- Kendra Dandy | Artist, illustrator, and the owner of Bouffants and Broken Hearts; her clients have included Coach, Anthropologie, Vans, and The New York Times. 🎨
- Jade Purple Brown | NYC artist who creates vibrant work to inspire and empower. Jade’s art is currently showcased as Adobe’s splash image for Illustrator 2021.
- Athena Calderone | Interior designer, author, culinary, and creative director, Athena has been deemed “the modern girl’s Martha Stewart” by the NYT.
- Kelly Wearstler | A world class designer and architect best known for her fearless aesthetic. 🛋
CONTENT:
- The WoMi App | An app that helps the conscious shopper find new brands to support with a free digital directory of women-and minority-owned businesses. Bonus fact: this was created by TMA’s very own Melissa Matos. You go girl! 🤩
- Pierre Davis is Designing Fashion’s Radical Future | Founder of No Sesso on how she uses fashion design as a form of peaceful protest.
- Chloé Zhao Talks Through A Scene | Listen to the first Asian female Golden Globe winner for Best Director talk through her creative process for her award-winning film Nomadland. 🎬
- AIGA Eye on Design: Women Make Up Over Half the Design Industry–So Why Are There So Few at the Top? | A deep dive into the gender disparity among C-suite roles even though women make up 61% of the design industry.
- Ladies, Wine & Design | A global nonprofit founded by designer Jessica Walsh aiming to deliver more diversity in the creative industry, by offering free mentorship services to develop underrepresented creatives into future leadership roles.
- Abstract: The Art of Design | Episode on the influential graphic designer Paula Scher.
- Togethxr | Founded by Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel, Chloe Kim, and Sue Bird, Togethxr is a new media and commerce company launched to shatter the narrow depictions of women in sports media. 🏆🥇
NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:
- BTFA Collective | Local to New York City, BTFA Collective creates spaces for the production and preservation of Black trans art and culture by building community with Black trans femme artists. The organization also provides resources and support necessary to create without limitations. TMA gave a corporate donation to the organization this month.
Women’s Empowerment
PODCASTS:
- Girlboss Radio: Jameela Jamil on Body Positivity | Jameela Jamil, founder of I Weigh, talks about how to attain a positive body image, how to gain courage to take a major leap and how to manage all your side and front hustles. 💪🏼💪🏾💪🏿
- Glennon Doyle on How To Take Hold of Your Life | Glennon discusses how we can take hold of our lives by becoming braver, bolder, and more self-aware.
- Second Life with Elaine Welteroth | Listen to Elaine Welteroth’s journey on how she became the youngest Editor-In-Chief at Condé Nast and how she’s evolved her career since then to be a New York Times best-selling author, Project Runway judge and co-host of “The Talk” 👢📝 📺
PEOPLE TO KNOW + ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW:
- Amanda Gorman | Poet, Writer, Dreamer 📢 💬
- BossBabe | Fastest growing educational media company for female entrepreneurs
- Time’s Up | The #TimesUp Movement was created by a group of celebrity women, who are fighting against sexual harassment in the workplace. 🙅🏽♀️🙅🏼♀️🙅🏾♀️
- Bozoma Saint John | Global Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix
- I Weigh | A community allyship platform built to share ideas and stories that ultimately mobilize activism. 📣
BOOKS:
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes 🙌🏽🙌🏻🙌🏿
- Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani
- Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle 🦁
- More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
CONTENT:
- I Am With You | New York Times best-seller Chanel Miller tells her story and creates a space for survivors of sexual assault to speak their truth and inspires them to define their own identity in this empowering short film.
- Becoming | Netflix documentary where Former US First Lady Michelle Obama discusses her life, hopes and connections with others.
NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:
- Prismatic Movement | Local to Chicago, Prismatic provides entrepreneurial skill building, social-emotional learning and responsible decision-making tools for young women and girls living in marginalized communities. TMA gave a corporate donation to the organization this month.
Women & Wellness
PODCASTS:
- Unlocking Us with Brené Brown | Listen to how Brené engages in honest conversations with a wide range of trailblazers, showing us how we are all human. 📢
- Healthier Together: Jen Sincero Shares The Secret To Creating & Sticking To Habits | Author Jen Sincero shares the secrets to creating and sticking to habits for a healthy lifestyle transformation.
- What’s Negative About Positivity? | Susan David, Ph.D., talks about toxic positivity, the influence it has on mental health, and how valuable all our good and bad feelings are. 👎🏼👍🏾
- Other People’s Problems | Therapist Hillary McBride gives us insight into her real therapy sessions, tackling difficult problems and openly talking about mental health.
PEOPLE TO KNOW + ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW:
- Brown Girl Therapy | A wellness and mental health community for first- and second-generation immigrants.
- Faith Hunter | Yogi who does frequent meditations via livestream. 🧘🏾♀️🧘🏽♂️
- Morgan Harper Nichols | An account filled with daily reminders around self-care.
- Jasmine Danker | A health and wellness influencer from Singapore who focuses on weightlifting. 💪🏿🏋🏼♀️
BOOKS:
- Tiny Beautiful Things | Cheryl Strayed gives advice from her anonymous persona Sugar on many of life’s problems. The story is told through real submissions to her Dear Sugar advice column.
- The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love | Sonya Renee Taylor teaches readers how to unapologetically love ourselves even when society is telling us we should be ashamed of who we are or how we look. 💙💛🧡❤️
- The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money | An engaging personal finance book to help you out with managing your money, even if you don’t know where to start.
- You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life | An easy read to help inspire you to live your best life. 💯
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle | This book is for women who have felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything they do yet are still worried they aren’t doing enough.
CONTENT:
- Headspace | Enroll in TMA’s Headspace membership and discover all of the amazing benefits of meditation, exercise, and sleepcasts.
- Spotify Mind & Body Playlist | Chill music to help you connect with your body. 🧖🏽♀️🧖🏼♂️🧖🏿♀️
- Why Wellness Is So Necessary for Women of Color | The importance of diversity in the wellness space, which has historically been a very white industry.
NONPROFIT SPOTLIGHT:
- Orange County Women’s Health Project | Prioritizes the advancement of long-term, sustainable solutions for the health and well-being of all women in Orange County, with a primary focus on achieving systems-level changes. TMA gave a corporate donation to the organization.
Thank you to TMA’s Women’s Initiative for all their hard work this month curating these resources and creating all of the beautiful phone background/Instagram story graphics.
