FLEB: Results

KELLY COLLAGE_Female Empowerment Brand

The Female Lifestyle

Empowerment Brand

(It's not a good thing.)

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What is Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand? ⁠(FLEB)⁠

START HERE → She's The Perfect Woman, in the form of a business...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #1 Fake Authority

Day 1 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #2 Fake Scarcity

Day 2 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #3 Male Approval

Day 3 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #4 Predatory Payment Plans

Day 4 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #5 Weaponized White Femininity

Day 5 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #6 Relentless Positivity and Conflict Avoidance

Day 6 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #7 Re-enforces Gender Binary & Patriarchy

Day 7 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #8 Safe Status Quo Imagery

Day 8 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #9 Social Triggers = Social Conditions

This is Day 9 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #10 Testimonials as Triggers

This is Day 10 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand...

This page includes my definition of The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand + all my essays and blog posts explaining why it’s bad for women, our businesses and our culture.

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Definition:

A "perfect woman" archetype must comply with and embody in order to be deserving of rights and resources

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A marketing strategy that leverages social status and white privilege to create authority over other women.

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In Our Culture

Every Woman Is a Brand

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The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. An introduction.

Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which each one of us within our hearts knows “that is not me.” In America, this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure. -...

Featured posts

Ixtapa, Mexico + John Rawls + No Pedi. Unthinkable now, right?

#tbt Toes in the Sand but NO PEDI. Also, The Beauty Myth then and now.

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Feminism, Femininity and The Swinging Pendulum. A Question for You.

The Context for The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brrand

Not Enough Compensation in the World

July 10 2017

A quick note about critique vs trashing and accountability vs gossip

As I’m writing out my definition of – and problem with – The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, here’s my intention: to name and investigate a social phenomena ...

July 10 2017

Let’s Get Off This Ride and Get Justice

A few days after Eric Garner's killers were not indicted in New York City, a very big Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand sent an email. She knew ...

July 10 2017

Me and The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. The Personal Backstory.

A long, long time ago -- like, 4-8 years ago; the jurassic era, online -- I was trying to be fabulous online. I was writing clever blog ...

May 8 2017

Reinventing the Online Summit

You know those problematic Online Summits? Here's a non-exploitative, successful, feminist model for launching one (while staying in alignment with your social justice principles!) I want ...

March 28 2017

How To Sell Without Selling Out Your Principles

There once was a radical commercial full of righteous body diversity that seemed to be a fist in the air for intersectional feminism, except that ...

January 11 2017

The Language of Activism, Feminism and Revolution is Not For Sale

I wrote a post a while back about some egregious marketing "don'ts" that I think are important for conscious, change-making entrepreneurs to reject and do ...
The Patriarchal Promise

December 8 2016

The Patriarchal Promise, Part 1

The Patriarchal Promise means being in the possession of an abundant livelihood, influence, respect, a beautiful subservient woman and her sexuality (or several), and a ...

November 28 2016

Getting Naked, Getting Paid, and Empowerment AKA It’s NOT Only About Your Intentions

A while ago Danielle LaPorte posted an update on Facebook about how Kim Kardashian's naked eff-you selfie with a similarly naked professional model was not, in ...
The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

October 29 2016

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand: A Definition

I'm writing a book about The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand and every Sunday I send a newsletter working through it (this essay started out as ...
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October 13 2016

“The Perfect Woman” is a form of Violence Against Women

pssst...this essay is related to the book I'm writing about The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. If you'd like to learn more about the phenomenon and ...

Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your life-changing, culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to bring something new to the world
Are you in?

A word. (And an excerpt from something that's dropping VERY soon 🔥)
Some of this was news to me but go Lola go!
This is my daughter Sophie and I at Lola’s graduation tonight. I cannot get my center part centered to save my life. But we give these glasses life.
Culture Making (aka Thought Leadership) Means Speaking *Their* Language⁠
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Culture Makers and Thought Leaders have a Language Dilemma and it is getting in the way of our work in the world.⁠
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Here's the invisible barrier in our IP & thought leadership:⁠
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We are practitioners. We are in mastery. We are in love with our subject matter. ⁠
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And so we speak Expert. ⁠
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We speak Nerd. ⁠
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We forget how to speak People.⁠
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And if there's not a bridge between those two languages, our people won't be able to hear us, find us or understand that we've got things that will help.⁠
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Because we're speaking a different language. ⁠
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And so we need to understand what the person --who we want to influence or who wants to learn from us-- wants, in their own words. ⁠
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We need to understand what THEY think the problem is (especially if we've come to a different conclusion).⁠
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We need to understand what it is they're trying to learn. ⁠
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We need to know what's going on in their life. ⁠
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We need to know the words that fall out of their mouth and then start using them, ourselves. ⁠
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We need to know intimately and forensically the person we're trying to influence or who wants to be influenced by our systems of thought.⁠
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And when we're over here in love with our subject matter, we don't speak that language anymore. ⁠
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We speak Expert. ⁠
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We have to remember how to speak People. ⁠
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#BridgeTheLanguageGap #ThoughtLeadership #ThoughtLeader #SpeakTheirLanguage #IP #IntellectualProperty #MeaningfulWork #BodyOfWork #WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠
#CultureMakersLanguageDilemma #Externalize #GetYourIdeasOutOfYourHeadAndIntoTheWorld #PutTheThoughtsBackInThoughtLeadership
Most of the people doing the *real* thought leadership work - ⁠
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the ones in the mix with us, developing new practices, processes, ideas, solutions and challenging industry norms --⁠
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would cringe at the idea of calling themselves a thought leader.⁠
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Because the dominant narrative around 'thought leadership' is about positioning, posturing and clout-chasing.⁠
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But that, IMHO, is fake thought leadership. That's about manufacturing authority rather than earning it with a robust, methodologized, coherent body of work. ⁠
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(No wonder we cringe.)⁠
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True thought leadership -- culture making! -- is about so much more than just standing on a stage or topping Google searches. ⁠
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True thought leadership is about externalizing your ideas into a meaningful, systematic body of work. ⁠
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Let's get our ideas out of heads and into the world --⁠
And let's put the thoughts back in thought leadership. ⁠
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#ThoughtLeadership #Externalize #MeaningfulWork #BuildYourBodyOfWork #WeAreTheCultureMakers #FakeThoughtLeader
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