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Take Ten: Social Judgment and Resilience
By: Dr. Gaby Cora
About four percent of the US population is gay. This means, roughly 40,000 offspring of one million moms—and dads—will be gay. There was a lot of commotion last week about role models and messages to our kids with the decision to select Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson of JCPenney’s. Conservative group OneMillionMoms didn’t seem to like this decision at all.
Liking or disliking our fellow citizens’ lifestyle choices in their private lives or whether or not gays are born this way is beside the point. The reality is that gay couples still face social judgment and become resilient to survive and thrive as they continue to seek equal rights as couples and as parents.
Join me in this week’s interview with successful entrepreneurs Mayda Perez and Simone Mayer as they share their lifestory as a couple and as parents.
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Do you focus on achieving one goal at a time or do you try to reach many goals at the same time?
This has been the theme of the week.
An entrepreneur started a new venture and was concerned when things didn’t go as well as he expected. Although he had a great idea, he didn’t build the foundation to support the project, almost giving up before he had really started.
Another executive has been doing great with a simple strategy and was ready to let go with the consistent plan rather than focusing on it for the next few months before jumping into something else.
What do Torres, Leslie, Vezzali, Dongmei, and Davenport have in common?
What do Dara Torres, Lisa Leslie, Maria Valentina Vezzali, Xian Dongmei, and Lindsay Davenport have in common?
They are all mothers who happen to be Olympians - or is it Olympians who happen to be mothers? All of them were successful athletes prior to having a child and all of them talk about how being a mother is always in the back of their minds.
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