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Category: Determined Women

17 Mar

Queen of the Cuisine – Clare Smyth

Queen of the Cuisine - Clare Smyth “I don’t care if customers pronounce the name of the wine or a dish wrong. It absolutely doesn’t matter. Just sit back and enjoy it. Nobody who is paying for their dinner should ever have to do anything more than that”- says Clare Smyth  It is unbelievable but she is the only British female chef with three Michelin stars in UK, and only the fourth in Britain to have this honou Mrs. Smyth  prefers to challenge herself making something spectacular with a carrot or a potato because it is more powerful than any luxury ingredient According to Clare Smyth the luxury is to feel relaxed and comfortable. What is her secret? It’s simple - the older she gets, the simpler...
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4 Mar

Who wants to be a billionaire?

It’s Whitney Wolfe Herd - the youngest female self-made billionaire. In fact she was born to balance numerous spinning plates. Her business child is the dating app Bumble on which women make the first step. As we know online dating couldn’t be always fun it’s more like a rollercoaster. As comedian Helen Hong says: “It’s right there in the name. It’s not ‘GreatCupid’ or even ‘GoodCupid.’ It’s OkCupid. On the other side there is the new philosophy of Bumble. “ Bumble’s aim isn’t to change the world but to “fix” the way men and women interact when dating, to level the playing field and give women more agency in their own relationships. I've seen the detriment when a woman is treated as second-tier in a two-part equation...
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17 Feb

Ballet language-Misty Copeland

"Ballet: something pure in this crazy world” - says Misty Copeland. She is a hero but spiritual one. Misty is the first African American female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre and a writer of the book Black Ballerinas. My Journey to Our Legacy about racism in the ballet and stereotypes as “Black people are not able to do ballet.” It is interesting that Prince invited her on the tour, Spike Lee dreamed about her as an actress in his movie and Barack Obama asked her for advices about “Black pioneers in the fields and institutions dominated by Whites.” Misty landed on the cover Time magazine, too. Nowadays she is not ashamed to say that is addicted to Prosecco with a splash of Saint Germain, Taco...
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21 Jan

Nota Bene – Joan Didion

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear” - says Joan Didion. As a little girl she was a bookish child who types out Hemingway’s stories to learn how to deal with the sentences. Now Joan Didion was 87 years old and she is the iconic novelist, memoirist, essayist, style icon and the face of the new journalism - way to communicate facts through narrative storytelling and literary techniques. It’s true that her writing has pushed the boundaries of the human. The chronicler of the cruel world who presented the cold reality with a style, from the realities of the counterculture of the 60’s and the lifestyle in Hollywood. Her career was launched after winning an essay sponsored by Vogue. The award was a research...
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26 Dec

Sheryl Sandberg – Scent of a Woman

Sheryl Sandberg. She is a pragmatist in a one man’s world. Usually people name her as a leader they admire. Why?  Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer at Facebook since 2008 who dramatically increased ad revenue by 21% in 2020 to 84,2 billion USD. In her book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, she is fighting for a more equal world and believes in encouraging girls and women to lead.  “I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.” Sheryl doesn’t hold herself as a role model. She...
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15 Dec

Tererai Trent – Soul shaking story

“I believe that once the seed of the imagination is planted in young minds, along with a thirst for achieving big dreams, there is no turning back” - says  Dr. Tererai Trent. A Zimbabwean-born academic is well known as Oprah Winfrey’s “all-time favorite guest”. She’s famous leader of social changes and her noble role is to support women around the world to educate themselves. Her story is full of trials and triumphs. Nowadays she travels all over the world and splits her time between central California and Zimbabwe. In 2011 she established foundation to bring educational opportunities in her hometown. But let’s start form the early beginning. Dr. Tererai Trent has grown up in poor small village in Zimbabwe. As a little girl she had...
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