Amazing.

That is all there is to write, it would seem. Women from diverse backgrounds came together to hear Ann-Marie’s story about how she took the entrepreneurial plunge in 1997 and went from social worker to internet maven to business owner. Yeah, it took guts, and listening to her instincts telling her that this was the right thing to do. Ann-Marie bared it all, including her current challenge to unplug herself from the business to “just be”. She started with her story, and quickly went into the challenges and the position that mattered to get the business to the next level. If there ever was “self-less” ambition (see Robyn Frye) this was it: it was all about what made Embolden Design grow…and Ann-Marie grew too.

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There is a great quote from Charles Landry regarding planners. He states:

“Finally, I argue that those in planning from land use to urban marketing are not creative enough, because they limit what they see as resources and underestimate the diverse ways of improving or solving problems. In part their mindscape is at fault and in part the uncreative bureaucratic process they are bound into. Yet if they get it right they can and do create physical spaces and opportunities that act as a stimulus for imaginative action so that the city works well as a creative system. This might require new leaders and certainly new training.”

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Robert reference: The Spaces of Democracy by Richard Sennet

— Amartya Sen and Nussbaum worked on UN definition of Quality of Life

1 - Basic health and hygeine

2 - Basic numeracy and literacy

3 - Ability to secure employment that matches with talent and provides sufficient income to appear in public without shame

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