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Happy Tuesday everyone! 🙂
For us at WoW, it’s all about supporting women and those supporting women, but from time to time we have to reflect on our self-care and take some time off work. Last week, we did a bit of both, when discovering this beautiful write-up by Katie Burke, Chief People Officer at HubSpot. As she nicely put it together there:
…Self-care has become synonymous with naps, baths and face masks. I love those things as much as anyone else, but it doesn’t get to the core of what most of us need to do more of: genuinely tending to our own needs. Sure, we have the metaphor of putting your airplane oxygen mask on yourself before assisting others, but how many of us actually live that daily? And even if we do, how many of us say kind things to ourselves when we do? I sure don’t. So below I’ve collected my top ten pieces of advice that follow that mantra…
You Can Do Anything, but Not Everything
Instagram Is a Highlight Reel
Protect Your Energy
Remind Yourself You Were Never in Control
Do Something With What You Can Control
Change How You Define Success
Play Offense, Not Defense
Thank Your Body
Get Some Rest
Make Time to Celebrate
Living in a global pandemic is hard. Living through constantly evolving political stress is hard. Seeing how much hate exists in our world right now is hard. Being a caretaker and partner is hard. So too is being solo right now. But rather than beating yourself for not “crushing it” consider acknowledging how hard this moment is and be proud of yourself for navigating through it. In other words, take care of you — today, tomorrow, and the next day.
Thank you for tuning in this Tuesday, happy reading! 💌
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The global beauty industry generates $500 billion in sales a year, according to a McKinsey report. In this webinar, we will be discussing the future of the beauty industry, as well as the state of the industry now, the trends and the latest innovations in this space, the demand for more personalization, as well as diversity and inclusion in this sector, the cross-section of beauty and technology, and much more.
📌 WoW Members' Meet & Greet - Wearables, HealthTech, FemTech, IoT, Fashion, May 5 (10am and 6pm BST, for all WoW members)
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WoW Knowledge Hub sessions in April 🤓 📕
➡️ “The power of an MVP” with WoW Expert In Residence: Kerry Briggs, Head of Medical at Kinneir Dufort
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WoW community events, news, and updates 💻🌎📆
📌 The FemAging Project and Keiretsu Forum have partnered to bring together physicians, investors, innovators and entrepreneurs to discuss, illustrate and explore opportunities and challenges during their virtual event “The FemAging Era: Advancing Women’s HealthTech Innovation and Investment”, taking place on May 20, 2021 at 12:00pm EST/9:00am PST. Additionally, the event will provide innovators with the opportunity to pitch their products and services designed for women ages 40+ to angel investors and venture capitalists. Find out more.
📌 Our member Heidi is launching her femtech business, help her validate her assumptions by filing this short 2-min survey.
📌 What the FemTech?!: Investing in FemTech - write-up by our member Susan
📌 Are you ready for the Metaverse? - write-up by our member Kelly
📌 Our member and expert in residence Catherine has launched her podcast - The Women in Health Tech Show, check it out here!
📌 The Intimate Care Revolution report by Bloomi - the purpose of this report is to unveil the truth and shed light on the intimate care industry: how products are created, how it directly impacts your health, how to maximize your own intimate wellness while remaining a savvy, conscious consumer.
On the WoW blog 🔖
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech | Oriana Papin-Zoghbi, co-founder and CEO of AOA
📌 WoW Women in FemTech | Rebeka Vegelj and Jelena Sangarelo, co-founders of Melon & Lime
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech | Sara Campin, founder and CEO of Nourish
📌 WoW Woman in FemCare | Katie Diasti, founder and CEO of Viv
📌 WoW Woman in Tech | Merle Hall, CEO of Kinneir Dufort
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech | Tess Cosad, CEO and co-founder of Béa Fertility
📌 WoW Woman in Beauty | Aishetu Fatima Dozie, founder of Bossy Cosmetics
📌 WoW Woman in FemTech | Hannah Samano, the Founder and CEO of Unfabled
Industry events, news, and updates 💻🌎📆
How do you build your brand in digital health?
How Smart Garments are Addressing the Need for Remote Care During COVID-19
Women-Run Health Care Startups Finally Break Through With Venture Investors
Is ‘Femtech’ the Next Big Thing in Health Care?
Facebook Finally Explains Its Mysterious Wrist Wearable
Sentien Audio: The next true wearable?
Google’s Nest Adds Sleep Tracking in New Health Tech Foray
Digital health's top 10 money raisers in 2021 — so far
Researchers develop health tech tool that can detect vital signs from a person’s face via video
How Robots Can Make Surgery More Controlled and Precise
How Advertising is Banning FemTech
3 Ways to Humanize the Virtual Health Care Experience
Meet the teenage astronaut in training on a mission to Mars
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