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Category: The Single Diaries

  • An Interview with the All-Female Film Crew of The Empowerment Project

    An Interview with the All-Female Film Crew of The Empowerment Project

    Director Sarah Moshman and Co-Producer Ashley Hammen dish on the making of the documentary, The Empowerment Project.

    Last month Catherine and I had the pleasure of attending a screening of the female driven documentary, The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things. The film seeks to answer the time-tested question, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?”. For Sarah Moshman and her crew of female filmmakers, the answer was easy. It was the creation of this project.

    Over the course of 30 days and 7,000 miles, these women hit the road to interview 17 women in leadership. From ballerinas to brew masters, they interviewed women in  industries as varied as they come, all the while negating stereotypes of what it means to be a women in charge.

    As far as we think we’ve come, the truth is that we still have a long way to go to accepting powerful women as the norm. The Empowerment Project seeks to see that change by sparking conversation about what it means to be a successful woman and what it takes to join the ranks. Needless to say, we wanted in on the conversation.

    For the latest installment in our Brunches with the Best series, I sat down with Sarah Moshman the film’s director and Ashley Hammen one of the film’s co-producers to find out more about the making of the film, what they hope to see it accomplish, and the advice they’d offer to our Single Girls.

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  • An Interview with the Co-founders of Vrai & Oro

    An Interview with the Co-founders of Vrai & Oro

    Learning to Live Authentic with the founders of Vrai & Oro

    “Be true to the way you are and live in a way that makes you feel good. Live in the moment in a way that makes the next even better.”

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    Vanessa Stofenmacher and Chelsea Nicholson, co-founders of Vrai & Oro

    One of the thing that most excites me about leading The Single Diaries is that it has been an incredible way to get to connect with other entrepreneurial young women. The more time we spend growing the site, the more women we come across with inspiring stories to tell. From starting their own yoga practices to traveling the world volunteering to building their own companies, we have been able to use the site to tell some pretty amazing stories from our Single Girls.  It is my hope that not only does our site help to spread the word about the work they are doing but also inspires you, our readers, to go after whatever it is that you are most passionate about. At the end of the day our mission is to help you be authentically you and to provide you with the advice to help you live the life you want to lead.

    The latest Single Girls I had the pleasure of sitting down with have built a company around that same vision. Vanessa and Chelsea are the leading ladies behind the just-launched jewelry site Vrai & Oro. Their brand promise is to bring you fine jewelry without the markups but their purpose goes much deeper.

    I sat down with these two to learn more about the lifestyle of authenticity they hope to inspire through their high-quality jewelry and to learn more about the journey that has led these two young women on a mission to disrupt the long-standing jewelry industry.

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  • An Interview with the Founder of Style the Aisle

    An Interview with the Founder of Style the Aisle

    Style the Aisle takes the blah out of bridesmaids’ dresses, so even single girls can look spectacular walking down the aisle.

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    “If you’ve got an idea believe in it and yourself. If  you’re spending time on it then it’s a great idea. Never doubt yourself or downplay what you’ve got to offer. Give yourself the credit you deserve.”

     

    Welcome back to Single Girl Brunches with the Best—a series of conversations with friends and leading ladies who are fierce, fearless and inspirational. In the spirit of fresh starts and new beginnings, I caught up with Erica, the stylish entrepreneur behind the hot new startup Style the Aisle, a site that lets bridesmaids-to-be rent their dresses.

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  • Our Year (and a half) with The Single Diaries

    Our Year (and a half) with The Single Diaries

    What The Single Diaries taught us in eighteen months

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    In eighteen months, we left jobs, enjoyed funemployment, explored our cities, dated, traveled, moved, discovered more about ourselves, and learned hundreds of lessons. Every week on The Single Diaries, we shared personal experiences and life lessons we found along the way after college. As we prepare to start a new chapter, read on for the ones we learned from devoting a year and a half to The Single Diaries.

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  • Saying Goodbye to The Single Diaries

    Saying Goodbye to The Single Diaries

    Time to turn the page and start a new chapter

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    We can’t become what we need to be by remaining who we are. – Oprah

    It’s hard to believe we are sharing this post, but this will be our final month of The Single Diaries. This site has been such a huge part of our lives for the past year and a half. Though it’s difficult to imagine a world without it, we have realized that it is time for each of us to take our next steps.

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