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Empowerment & resilience

Below are the best resources we could find on Empowerment and resilience.

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Never, Ever Give Up | Diana Nyad

In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that’s how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida—at age 64. Hear her story.

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Resilience Through Indigenous Humour | Stephanie Pangowish | TEDxCentennialCollegeToronto

In this talk, Stephanie Pangowish, shares how the Indigenous community uses humor to survive colonization and continues to use it as a tool for healing.

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How to Reach Your Greatest Potential

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Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists

If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you.

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How to Overcome Fear of Rejection and Achieve Success

“No” doesn’t have to be the end of the story. You can learn how to reject rejection, and look at it as an opportunity to progress forward and even excel at the very thing you were rejected for.

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S.

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What Can I Do? The Path from Climate Despair to Action

In 2019, daunted by the looming disaster of climate change and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda asked herself one question: What can I do? Jane Fonda, one of the most influential activists of our time, moved to Washington, D.C.

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Beating the Odds

Leadership lessons from senior African-American women

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10 Steps to Finding Inner Strength

When we’re empowered to speak honestly about how we feel and what we need, we can tap into resilience and well-being.

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BIPOC EARTH: Environmental Justice Empowerment

BIPOC EARTH is an environmental justice collective focused on intersectional environmental justice that activates, supports, heals, and empowers Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities at The New School and beyond.

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