Procrastination Station- April 22

Posted on April 22nd, 2015

I have read a lot of pieces about being your true, authentic self recently, and I’m really loving the messaging.  How you discover what that should looks like is a separate matter, but keeping that in mind as the end goal is fabulous.

Maxie McCoy recently wrote about embracing your differences and leveraging them to help you stand out.  A great read if you’re trying to combat insecurities and reframe them in your own perception.

Obviously, I’m just dipping my toe into this blogging thing, but as I’ve followed other people’s blogs over the years, I have given some thought to the topics Julia, the voice behind Lemon Stripes, puts forth in her post On Blogging this week.  It was a good perspective, and I love that she tackled this topic.

In the interest of continuing topics of empowerment, I think what 76<100, a new boutique in Pittsburgh, has come up with.  The bottom line: to highlight the wage gap, they sell a full complement of goods, but charge women 76% what men are charged.  More here!

During my year working at the Lilly Pulitzer Pink Palace, I really drank the Kool-Aid.  As a company and brand, it was a really amazing time– the brand was really strengthening its identity in the resort chic marketplace, and its social media presence was growing into the amazing creative powerhouse it is today.  It so happens that I was park of the Lilly team when Lilly Pulitzer passed away in April of 2013, and it was in the weeks that followed that I really became inspired by the woman behind the company.  We all have a lot to learn from Lilly– some of those lessons summed up here.  Particularly good to keep in mind in the wake of the Lilly for Target craziness…

On a more serious note, many of you may have read this widely-circulated New York Times article on the nation’s 1.5 million missing black men.  I found this to be a really interesting way to examine the discrepancies in communities across the US.  Understanding studies like these helps us understand one another.

Have you all read anything interesting recently?  I’m always looking for more things to learn!