Women Standing for Women

It is time for women to stand for women. When times are tough women need the comfort and support of one another. When times are good, women to each other to call to celebrate. Women are different than men. When I sat in my first psychology class almost 3 decades ago we were told that there were certain behavioral gospels and that one of them is when you put a human being in a fearful or stressful situation they will do one of two things, fight or flight. Everyone assumed the complete validity of this statement until two women researchers from UCLA did a fear and stress study that included females. What they discovered was amazing. Women do not go into fight or flight, they do something different that the researchers labeled "tend and befriend".

Women need each other. As women, it is not good for us to be isolated from one another. We need to cooperate, collaborate, encourage, inspire and educate one another. For too long we have been competing in a man's paradigm. We need to get back to what is most natural for us and that is support, encouragement and collaboration. That is where a new women's networking organization called The Heart Link Network comes in. In it's first 120 days, beginning in April of 2008, The Heart Link Network launched over 100 locations in 28 states, all by word of mouth. The Heart Link Network and its online community The Heart Alliance are taking the nation by storm and are getting ready to open Canada and Australia.

The Heart Link Network, with its warm and intimate, relaxed environment is linking women to new ideas, resources, products, services and especially the hearts of one another. Dawn Billings is the architect and founder of this organization. She was chosen out of 3200 women as one of the nation's emerging women leaders by Oprah Magazine and The White House Project and selected in the YWCA 2008 Women of Achievement awards, as one of 15 Women of Achievement in Georgia. She is the author of over 15 books and travels the nation as an "entitlement expert" teaching corporations, organizations, schools and parents how to avoid the tragedy of "an entitlement mentality" with their workers, volunteers or children. Dawn Billings has spent the last 35 years benefiting the lives of women and children and has created a new parenting tool/toy that is touted by parenting experts around the world to revolutionize parenting around the world.

If you are a woman who wants to meet other extraordinary women, go to The Heart Link Network and click on the "locations" tab. Visit a gathering near you and if there is not yet a location in your area, find out how to be a leader and bring together the extraordinary women in your community.
We welcome you,
The Heart Link Team at www.TheHeartLinkNetwork.com