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Feminism

Let’s Get Education To Women And By That, Limit Climate Change

Happy IWD rockers! Some people are having a hard time understanding my concern about climate change. To some people, I am seen as aggressive. I just choose not to engage with some people. A lot of people are concerned about climate change. But they would rather see climate activists calm down a bit. Having a […]

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Activism Feminism

The First Women To Be #equaleverywhere

Yesterday, the UN foundation ‘s campaign on #equaleverywhere was launched. As a Social Good Connector, I have known about it for a while and thought about what I wanted to do around it. I thought about doing an interview to showcase how far we’ve gotten. I thought about showcasing a female entrepreneur. But I decided […]

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Feminism

“Invest In Women”: Women Entrepreneurship Day 2019

I spoke at Women Entrepreneurship Day 2019 conducted by Female Founders of the Future at Klub in Copenhagen back in November. “Invest In Women”: Summary Of My Speech I didn’t memorize my full speech as I wrote it, you really never do, but here it is: Hi there! My name is Henriette Weber. I am […]

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Feminism Networking

There is a place in heaven for women at conferences who rock it out together

There’s an old saying by Madeleine Albright saying ” there is a place in hell for women who don’t help each other”. We’ve heard it over and over again. I would rather say that “there is a place in heaven for women who rock it out together”. If that’s so, I was in heaven this […]

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Feminism

A Love Letter To My Mothers: International Womens Day

It’s morning and it’s International Women’s Day. It’s hands down one of the days of the year where I am most grateful. Where I give all my beloved mothers across the generations my complete love and blessings and whisper my deepest “thank you”.. Thank you for making my conditions so great that I am almost […]

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Business Feminism

Cindy Gallop is rockin’ up “action branding” for you

A couple of weeks back I was at the London Web summit- a day conference in London about the web and everything related.  I was really lucky to get to talk to the iconic Cindy Gallop about her field of work: Action branding – Something I myself am wildly inspired by.  I think it’s so […]

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Feminism

Excuse me when I fight for wild spirits..

…As well as diversity, quirkiness, and people who need tools to follow their dreams. So it’s international women’s day today. Already my Facebook feed is filling up with “happy Women’s day”. Google has a lovely ’70s purple and flowers feel over it. Men are asking when it’s people’s day and they are missing the point. […]

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Feminism My Visionairy Concepts

No! – I don’t want to convince people to take me seriously

A couple of weeks ago I was approached by a friend of mine, who was asking me if I take me seriously and wondered what I thought about this video: Right from the beginning I just knew that this would upset me very much – sometimes you can just feel it when it’s coming. She’s […]

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Feminism

Do you want a forced female on your board?

I get asked a lot about my thoughts on “forced quotas on females in executive positions”(Lately by Alex from the rockin’ Scandinavian Startups). If you want my short answer then I am against it, simply because of the word “forced” – and in my perspective it’s not just something that is forced upon the companies, […]

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Entrepreneurship Feminism

The Scandinavian “female entrepreneurs who do startups” list

So a couple of days ago, Fast Company launched a “25 women-run startups to watch” list. Today I am advisoring the Copenhagen Startup Weekend teams – so this is the weekend of startups for me.  Anyway the Fast Company article had two awesome women in it, that I’ve had the chance to meet and fall […]