My friend Marquetta Adkins, founder of WeKan and Camp Destination Innovation, has a saying I love, “When powerful, positive women come

I’ve been cleaning out my upstairs bedroom, getting ready for my sister’s visit to co-teach the Everyday Intuition class with me on October 19. She’ll probab...

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My friends Marquetta and Nina are always up for a conversation about anything! Some of my most impactful experiences have come from conversations. That was c...

Talking about turning ideas into action at the EmpowerHer Conference I spent International Women’s Day, surrounded by mainly women at a cloud-nine level insp...

Marion City Library, located in a 1912 Santa Fe Depot One of the things I love the most about the Finishing School for Modern Women is community. It doesn’t ...

When I was in Chicago over the holidays, my mother told me that the Women’s March for Chicago will be called off this year. The official reason organizer’s h...

When I started the Finishing School in September 2015, I had no idea where it would go. I started out doing classes at the Wichita Art Museum, Harvester Arts...

Eleven years ago this month, I went to the doctor to have a look at the big lump in my throat I’d discovered in May.

In September 2007, I finally talked to my doctor about the lump I felt on my throat in May. It was my thyroid and it was cancer. To help me keep the people I...

It’s an odd feeling, to be exhausted and replenished at the same time, yet here I am. In the past seven days I’ve been part of two incredibl

It seems amazing that less than 100 years ago, married women didn’t have the right to own property or to sign a contract.

I wish I would have met Cindy Cushing Coughenour, the founder of Fearless and Female, when I was much younger. The first time I saw her in action was at the ...

I keep thinking of things I want to invite my friend Sharon to do with me. She’s one of those people who I can always count on to go with me to do the crazie...

On Thursday, June 28, 2018, the Finishing School for Modern Women, with the help of Britten Kuckelman, brought 100 women and men together to brainstorm on how...

Have you noticed? There’s a lot of Woman Power going on in Wichita! This makes me very happy. Maybe I’m mistaken, but I don’t remember this happening to this...

No one can go it alone in life. Well, you can, if you want to live in a cave, but what fun would that be? We’ve all benefited from the help of others, whethe...

I believe that taking a stand for causes you’re passionate about is important. Rather than just sitting around, complaining about the state of the world, it ...

WeKan Founder Marquetta Atkins and Headmistress Jill I’m late! Usually I like to spend Friday morning writing my weekly article, but this Friday I was at the...

I was honored to be the final speaker of the Women's March on the Air Capital Rally on January 20, 2018. Here's what I said: Photo used by permission of Jon ...