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uring Women’s History Month, we celebrate the accomplishments and historical contributions
of women from around the world. March 8th was International Women’s Day, and the theme was #ChooseTo Challenge. This theme challenges us to call out gender bias and to continue to fight for equality. There has been much progress, but there’s still work to be done to close the gaps in gender and racial equality. This year we’ve seen women reaching new heights and seeing that representation at the highest levels matters. It’s also imperative that women support other women and for each of us to ask ourselves…How can I be an ally? We are excited to invite you to watch our upcoming ASM Global Talks series panel discussion featuring women members from our leadership team. We hope that their stories and experiences inspires women in our company striving to make progress in their professional careers and balances their personal lives. We also hope that you enjoy reviewing the films, literature, musical playlist, and podcasts that were hand selected by our Diversity & Inclusion committee in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Women’s History Month Join us for a new ASM Global Talks series as Women Leaders in the company come together to discuss their own personal and professional experiences, challenges, and ways they create a culture of inclusiveness in their own workplace.
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FEATURED TEAM MEMBERS LUCY ALBERS
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS CHESAPEAKE ENERGY ARENA
SHAUNA ELVIN EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL TALENT ASM GLOBAL
EMMA LIVINGSTONE HEAD OF MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS AO ARENA
BECKY COLWELL General Manager THE GREEK THEATRE
CAROLINE GRIGGS
VICE PRESIDENT EVENTS AND MArKETING OAKLAND ARENA AND RINGCENTRAL COLISEUM
TERI ORTON General Manager HAWAII CONVENTION CENTER
MARGARET COLON
Director SALES & MARKETING PUERTO RICO CONVENTION CENTER
RHONDA HENDERSON, CMA ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION CENTER
ELLEN SCHWARTZ GENERAL MANAGER lOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER
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READ YOU ARE A BADASS: HOW TO STOP DOUBTING YOUR GREATNESS AND START LIVING AN AWESOME LIFE by: Jen Sincero In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to: Identify and change the selfsabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, Create a life you totally love. And create it NOW, Make some damn money already. The kind you’ve never made before. By the end of You Are a Badass, you’ll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can’t change, how to change what you don’t love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.
THE MOMENT OF LIFT by: Melinda Gates For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, you need to stop keeping women down. In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, “That is why I had to write this book―to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.”
GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER by: Bernardine Evaristo The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.
THE HOUR OF THE STAR by: Clarice Lispector I was a girl once, but not anymore. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator―edge of despair to edge of despair―and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN: INSPIRATION AND ADVICE FROM OVER 100 MAKERS, ARTISTS, AND ENTREPRENEURS by: Grace Bonnie Over 100 exceptional and influential women describe how they embraced their creative spirit, overcame adversity, and sparked a global movement of entrepreneurship. Media titans and ceramicists, hoteliers and tattoo artists, comedians and architects—taken together, these profiles paint a beautiful picture of what happens when we pursue our passions and dreams.
WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the muchadmired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-themoment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
THE HOUR OF THE STAR by: Clarice Lisperctor Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction.
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CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND Call Your Girlfriend is a podcast for long-distance besties. Every week, Aminatou and Ann call each other to discuss the intricacies of pop culture and the latest in politics.
UNLADYLIKE But by better understanding our unique identities, diverse lived experiences and underlying injustices, we can claim our space and make more room for others as well. That’s our Unladylike mission: to make inclusive, credible media that moves.
UNLOCKING US WITH BRENE BROWN Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live, love, parent, and lead with more courage and heart.
LISTEN March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating the female artists we love! Smash glass ceilings to the below soundtrack all month long that was shared with us by various ASM Global Team Members.
NA ESTRADA, MARISA MONTE BORN THIS WAY, LADY GAGA I’M EVERYONE WOMAN, WHITNEY HOUSTON OR CHAKA KHAN AQUERELA, TOQUINHO RUN THE WORD (GIRLS), BEYONCE GIRL ON FIRE, ALICIA KEYS RESPECT, ARETHA FRANKLIN O QUE E, O QUE E, BETH CARVALHO GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, CYNDI LAUPER DEIXA A VIDA ME LEVAR, ZECA PAGODINHO MAN! I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN, SHANIA TWAIN GOOD AS HELL, LIZZO ACCESS THE PLAYLIST
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