Complete Show Notes here: Think about your own story. What is phenomenal about you? What is the special gift you bring the world? If you’re having trouble accessing that, you are not alone! As women, we often struggle with recognizing our own talents and impact on the world. On today’s episode I talk with the inspiring Amy Boyle, professional photographer and creator of the 52 Phenomenal Women Project. She takes us through her journey as an internationally published photographer and her passion project giving women the opportunity to tell their stories and empower others through the process. We dive into: [9:10] How Covid has affected Amy’s business and how she pivoted to adapt. [12:20] The inspiration she pulled from Maya Angelou to create her project.  [14:00] How she chooses the phenomenal women for her project.  [18:10] The importance of the self-nomination process and the power of stepping into and owning your own spotlight.  [21:35] Recognizing the impact of shared stories and the powerful exercise her project has become for the women involved.  [24:25] How I learned something new about a shared friend through Amy’s project.  [29:50] The similarities that were found across different women and the one special way we all differ. [31:30] How a participant in the project made a pivot after being Michelle Obama’s personal photographer. [34:00] A shared weakness that women perceive about themselves (that is just NOT true!) [35:35] Two statements you can use EVERYDAY to empower yourself. [41:35] A special way Amy uses music in her life and why it’s a superpower! [43:30] 2 important things that tie together in her work and why you need both to tell powerful stories.  [45:15] An inspiring story of advocacy from one of Amy’s participants and how important it is to release limiting beliefs.  [48:55] Amy’s beautiful advice for all women so they can live empowered lives.

On Today’s show, Amy discusses her upbringing in an artistic and supportive household, the 52 Phenomenal Women Project and how it started, her 104 photoshoots with diverse and inspirational women, how having a community can change your life and her life-changing trip to the Amazon. Tune in and learn more about Amy’s incredible story. SHOW NOTES HERE

Meet Lady: In her own words - "Growing up I always wanted a mentor like some of the other kids had. I never thought that I would even BE a mentor. When I was in the City Year program I fell in love with mentoring and the kids. Working with the kids just came naturally to me. I began to build great bonds with my students. When I realized that I was pretty good at this I knew I wanted to continue this work, but not in a classroom setting. I found My Block My Hood My City and I loved what they stood for. This organization was presented to me by my team leader at the time. She felt I was the best candidate for the job because of the great impact I had on my City Year students. My Block My Hood My City has a program called “Explorers” in high schools that are located in divested communities. We work with freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Each school gets to go on one exploration per month. These explorations are meant to encourage students to think outside the box and understand that there are many things out there. It’s also an opportunity to visit and see other communities and all Chicago has to offer. I am the Program Coordinator for the Explorers Program. That’s just my title but I consider myself the Mentor for the program.  Being able to step into someone's life willingly and when they become receptive of that, has to be the best feeling ever. My kids are my world. They help better me everyday.  I love being able to be someone in their lives that they can count on, and they know I’m coming! I do this because I love being able to be there for someone. I work with 120 kids and what I do for one I will certainly do for all. They’re the reason I get up everyday. They gave me a purpose I didn’t even know I had. Being in my position the number one thing I have to be is understanding and willing to listen and not just hear them. I make sure they know they have a voice and that it can be heard. I try to be adaptive in every moment with my kids so I can become exactly what/who they need in every moment. They say once you find your purpose on earth you found the key to life. Well, I got the keys 💪🏾!" *** Please follow along on instagram as well and learn more about Lady. 52 Phenomenal Women has now completed its second year! This is week 52 of 52.2. Participants in this project will be supporting the efforts of Dress for Success Worldwide – Central. We are all stronger together and it is my sincere hope that we will be inspired by each other’s stories. Now is the time to celebrate as well as encourage one another. Tell your story!

Thank you, Belinda for spotlighting the 52 Phenomenal Women Project on your show September 6, 2020. Be sure to check it out... EPISODE 25 We are so excited to welcome our Brunchers to Season Two. Let’s do EVEN MORE good during our second season and support our friends in food, wine, restaurants, small business and OURSELVES in mind, body and spirit. As always, REGISTER HERE to join us (care) free - with or without pants on, with or without video and whether you want to drink, cook and move with this week’s featured guests OR NOT. We are always just happy to connect with you. In Episode 25, we explore TARTS: a few of my favorite tarts and few excellent TARTS doing good. ☀︎ SWIZZLE ALONG with Garret Richard "the torchbearer of the next generation of tikiphiles" according to Punch Drink. Get your swizzle stick ready! HERE are two of his recipes that we will be making together! ☀︎ SWEET and SAVORY TART ALONG with Stephanie Lock, founder of Ready to Roll Dough and global tart expert. You can buy FARM to PIE KITS from Mick Klug if you live in the Chicago area or Michigan OR prepare Melissa Clark’s RECIPE and we will roll out our sweet and savory tarts together with Stephanie! Click her image below for a treasure trove of recipes on her website. I’m doing a savory tomato tart, but if you wanna do a sweet fruit tart, you do you, boo. ☀︎ PHENOMENAL WOMEN ALONG with photographer, Amy Boyle, and learn about three of the women that she has profiled for her new book! HERE is her website and HERE is how to support her amazing work. ☀︎ and of course, we continue to connect, comfort, laugh and bring the Sunday Brunch cheer SAFELY and TOGETHER!

By Ariel Parrella-Aureli @ArielParrella An encyclopedia of women’s empowerment Local photographer Amy Boyle's new project, 52 Phenomenal Women, elevates the voices of women and reminds us there’s power in sharing our stories. On a recent hot Friday afternoon, I went with photographer Amy Boyle to visit 80-year-old Sue Smith in Lincoln Park, to hear her joyous words of wisdom I’d only read about. She greeted us in a summery orange shirt and matching handkerchief with shining jewelry, but an even brighter smile. Smith recently lost her husband to coronavirus and moved to Chicago from Indiana to be with her son and family. But despite the loss, which she called a life-changing event, Smith is not letting her happiness be spoiled and wants others reading her story to follow her lead. “Find joy in life through this pandemic,” Smith told me. “There is joy every day—in a leaf falling, a flower blooming, that is my philosophy.” Smith is one of 52 women featured in Boyle’s two-year photo project called 52 Phenomenal Women, which started September 2018 and will conclude September 9, 2020. For more than 100 consecutive weeks, Boyle has highlighted extraordinary and inspiring women for her photo project, showcasing the beauty in our stories, turning struggles into words of advice and lessons learned. It’s a reminder that we each have a story to share and that there is power in displaying vulnerability—that we aren’t as alone as the world can sometimes make us feel, especially the isolation brought on by this pandemic. Boyle, an internationally published photographer, wanted to start the project to create a dialogue of inclusion, support, and recognition by celebrating the phenomenal qualities within each woman. As the project wraps up, the Chicago native looks back on the inspiring community she’s created. She’s also looking forward: she plans to create a book out of the project. It's scheduled to be released on International Women’s Day in March 2021. And she’s working on a podcast to debut in October to keep the conversation going. Tentatively called Speaking Of Phenomenal, it will be a combination of new and old interviews with women bettering their communities. “The community that the project has built, whether in person [or on Facebook],a lot of these women have gotten to know each other.[It] has been wildly rewarding,” Boyle says. As luck would have it, Boyle says our new normal hasn’t stopped the project’s routine. Thanks to the large but tight-knit group of women, she never lost a week, even though photo shoots shuffled around like Tetris. That taught her to let go of her regimented plan—a thing so many of us cling to in an effort to complete a project—and pivot to the present moment. “I am a planner, but I had to surrender a lot more than I thought but for the best outcome I could have ever hoped for,” she says. “We put ourselves in such rigid [boxes]—‘I have to do this by this time’, whether it’s in your 20s, 30s, 40s, or 50s. But as long as it’s guided by your heart and where you would like to go, heck, the road keeps changing and that’s OK, that makes the ride interesting.” Smith did exactly that and followed a new path to Chicago to start fresh after 57 years of marriage and a plentiful life in Fishers, Indiana. She says she was honored to be part of the project and share her story with the world, and the community of women has been a blessing as she adjusts to a new city. “It was such joy for me to find friends,” she says. “I am not from here and I came here [two days] after I lost my husband.” Nika Clark, who grew up in North Lawndale but now lives in Bricktown, shared her story of traveling to Ghana to connect with her heritage and culture after finding out she had Ghanian ancestry. What started as a 40th birthday trip turned into a deeply emotional and rewarding experience that Clark was happy to share with the world through Boyle’s project. She was able to make the trip in early February, before coronavirus took hold, and says the lessons learned from the trip will stick with her forever, just like the connection to the land that she felt. She says the trip was like a coming home journey, especially visiting the Cape Coast, which was the final passage where enslaved African were taken through and put on the ships. “I hope I did return to one of my ancestors who has been watching over me; I hope there was some relief because I know I felt it,” she says. “It was a powerful release of emotion that I didn’t know I had within me.” Tanya Turner, who lives in Oak Park and is an admirer of Boyle’s work, found power in sharing her story of growing up in an abusive, low-income household and how she persevered through the odds. She became the first person in her family to graduate college and paid off her student loans in just three years. She entered a lucrative career in computer science and started her own travel blog. Her motto: the glass is refillable. “My goal was to let people know you are not alone,” Turner says of participating in Boyle’s project. “It’s been encouraging to see that women have a voice and that it’s captured and expressed with others. It’s positive and in the world today, we certainly need that.” Original Article in the Chicago Reader September 3, 2020

Meet Kelly: In her own words - "It is 2015, I’m pregnant with my daughter, trying to navigate my next career move and pondering the age-old interview question: “Where do you see yourself five years from now?”. I don’t know that I ever settled on an answer but I do know that it wasn’t: having just moved back to the East Coast after spending four years in Chicago with my husband playing the title role in Hamilton: An American Musical, trying to figure out what this next iteration of my life will look like after I abandoned my career to care for my medically complex daughter who passed away five days shy of her fourth birthday - and there’s currently a global pandemic. Yeah, that wasn’t what I envisioned. But it’s what happened. There is not a day, an hour, a moment that passes that I don’t wish my baby girl, Adelaide, was still with us. I hate how she suffered, from epileptic seizures, mast-cell attacks, respiratory issues, frequent hospitalizations, and pharmaceutical side effects. I try to find some solace in knowing that she is finally at peace. The last four years of my life were dedicated to hunting out the best care and most promising treatments for Adelaide. To this day we still don’t know the root cause of her epilepsy and numerous other complications. Unfortunately, this is the case for a majority of individuals living with uncontrolled epilepsy. Without a true diagnosis we were left treating her symptoms and became very talented at the medically complex dance: one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward, one step back. The last year of her life we had stopped making any steps forward and refocused on keeping her comfortable. We were always on alert for seizures, her breathing to grow faint, her color to change. We spent about one week every month in the hospital. I knew this wasn’t “typical” but it had become our normal. The schedule, the people, the community - it was bizarrely routine for us as it is for too many families. Then, with one last breath, everything changed. Our society has long used careers and financial earnings to qualify our perceived value. Leaving my bread-winning position in our family to be a stay-at-home mother/nurse/pharmacist/therapist left me depressed and resentful of my husband’s thriving career. Clearly I love my children, and I never would have let anyone else manage my daughter’s care, but having to face the question, “what do you do?” whenever we met someone new, sent me spiraling. It was time to re-negotiate my own self-value with the world. Through therapy I was able to find my own purpose and fulfillment in this life that I didn’t choose. I connected with Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) and joined their board, I started my blog “Inchstones”, and currently host CURE’s podcast, “Seizing Life”. So, no, there is no way I could have envisioned that this is where I would be five years later. And, no, I’m not going to say that I wouldn’t change a thing. But I am proud of who I am and what I accomplished alongside Adelaide. Today, when someone asks what I do I say that I am a writer and special needs advocate with pride. Remaining ingrained in this community brings me incredible comfort and fighting for those still on the medically complex journey gives me purpose and hope. I cannot allow Adelaide’s struggles to have been in vain. So, I will squeeze all the lemonade I can from these lemons. You can also be sure that I will never be making a five year plan again." *** Please follow along on instagram as well and learn more about Kelly. 52 Phenomenal Women is now in its second year! This is week 51 of 52.2. Participants in this project will be supporting the efforts of Dress for Success Worldwide – Central. We are all stronger together and it is my sincere hope that we will be inspired by each other’s stories. Now is the time to celebrate as well as encourage one another. Tell your story!

Meet Erika: In her own words - "Diagnosis: Stage IV lung cancer. I was a 42 year old mom, former airline pilot, with a 9 year old daughter and a 7 year old son. I was physically in the best shape of my life and a non-smoker with no risk factors. The diagnosis was devastating. After the shock had worn off, I needed to figure out how I was going to approach my future as a survivor. One of the best things that I read shortly after my diagnosis was, “Don’t waste your cancer.” It became my goal to make every day count. When you have a terminal disease you realize that time is everything. I dedicated myself to living my best life. Doing the things that I may have put off before my diagnosis. Live your life. Live it the BEST way you can! Say YES more often. Go outside of your comfort zone. Take the trip. Learn the dance. Eat the donut. Love hard. Like most people, when I was diagnosed I thought that only smokers got lung cancer. It turns out that you only need lungs to get lung cancer. It is the #1 cancer killer of both men and woman, but because of the stigma around smoking, lung cancer gets significantly less federal research funding than other cancers. The medications that were extending my life were created through research and I saw a way to turn my frustration into action as an advocate helping to raise these funds to find the next treatment. On a girl’s weekend, my friends surprised me with Best Life t-shirts in honor of my mantra. That shirt became my inspiration for my own BEST LIFE team shirt for an event. We were so happy with the design, that we decided to sell them as a fundraiser. The response was very positive so we have turned this idea of living your best life into its own nonprofit, called yEAHbestlife, the EAH in yEAH, being my own initials. The nonprofit is dedicated to raising funds for lung cancer research and raising lung cancer awareness, while encouraging everyone, both survivors and others, to live their Best Life. Taking ownership of my fundraising has been very powerful for me. It gives me hope and strength, it lets me guide where the resources are spent, and it allows me to guarantee that I will leave a legacy of giving to improve the outcome of patients living with lung cancer. I’m proud to leave this legacy for my family, who can carry on this important work of funding research toward finding a cure for lung cancer. These are the cards I was dealt. Focusing on what I can control allows me to be able to breath through the rest. Even through the darkness there is positivity, laughter, meaningful memories, and always hope…" *** Please follow along on instagram as well and learn more about Erika. 52 Phenomenal Women is now in its second year! This is week 50 of 52.2. Participants in this project will be supporting the efforts of Dress for Success Worldwide – Central. We are all stronger together and it is my sincere hope that we will be inspired by each other’s stories. Now is the time to celebrate as well as encourage one another. Tell your story!

The 52 Phenomenal Women project On the air with NBC5 Chicago and Zoraida Sambolin 8/25/20

Meet Edwina: In her own words - "I’m here for a reason. But not in a predestined way. I believe that humans are creative beings who find purpose and joy when we allow ourselves, as entirely unique individuals, to create what only each of us can create. I’m an aggregate of my physical body, natural talents, countless experiences and all of the knowledge that I’ve chosen to take from those experiences. When I’m stumbling around looking for clarity and purpose, I get stuck in my head and feel lost. But when I let myself be open and grounded, in the moment and paying attention, I discover personal opportunities to create. When all of my experiences, attributes, gifts and failings collide with body, mind and soul, the lightbulb goes on...I find my ideas, my imagination, my purpose and my joy. People often say “Oh I’m not creative", but we’re all always creating. We can create a lovely meal, an amazing spreadsheet, a beautiful haircut, or a loving, life changing moment. I know when I view something as an opportunity to create, the outcome is always more elevated. When I consider my work as creation instead of chore, I find new meaning in it. I don't love to write (and dreaded writing this) but embracing it as creation helped improve the experience for me and the outcome for you (I hope). When I view a relationship as an opportunity to create love, it can transform the experience. Don't get me wrong, it's not often easy, but it's where the magic happens. I worked shoulder to shoulder for 17 years in a pit of 300 men as a Trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where I learned to create relationships that may have been otherwise intimidating. My love for animals helped me to create C.A.R.E.-Evanston, a shelter and adoption program that’s still saving pets today. Friendship and curiosity helped me create A Room with A View and Cowell Designs, interior design businesses that unearthed my passion for creating beautiful, thoughtful spaces. My Dad, who endured World War II’s horrors, helped me create a mindset centered around the importance of Peace and how we might attain it. My latest creative journey gives my life meaning like nothing I could’ve ever imagined. I create daily as the CVO of Spiritual Playdate, an online Life Skills Program “for kids and their grown-ups" Spiritual Playdate is a resource for parents and teachers to explore Social, Emotional and Spiritual Topics with kids ages 5-11. It started in 2006 as a playdate on my family room floor with three 7-year old boys and their moms. It’s since blossomed into a global resource in a time when these are sorely lacking and our youth can feel empty and even desperate. I believe that creating children who are socially, emotionally and spiritually whole will lead to more mental wellness. I have no doubt that this work puts us all on a path to peace and a better world. Let's create something beautiful today!" *** Please follow along on instagram as well and learn more about Edwina. 52 Phenomenal Women is now in its second year! This is week 49 of 52.2. Participants in this project will be supporting the efforts of Dress for Success Worldwide – Central. We are all stronger together and it is my sincere hope that we will be inspired by each other’s stories. Now is the time to celebrate as well as encourage one another. Tell your story!

Meet Nita: In her own words - "2020 has been the most challenging year for the world that I have lived in for my entire 22 years. My whole life all I have wanted to help people and this new challenging world is helping me do that. When COVID first came to the US I was laid off from my job because it was a health hazard at the McCormick place. All events were being cancelled so there was no reason to work. As everything became closed for quarantine I helped my friend and watched her 3 kids because there was no access to daycare. When the looting in Chicago happened I saw Facebook posts from my friends and their families about how people looted the baby formula and diapers. I was outraged but fortunate to have extra supplies at home due to my daycare. So me, my friends , and my family packed a suitcase with formula and diapers, washed and wrapped fruit to put in a basket, and packed up the kids and went on the main street next to my house and gave out as many supplies as we could before the curfew started. After that, I began asking for donations and tweeting places I was going and people started donating items for me to give out. Black Lives Matters Chicago offered to do weekly drop offs if I wanted to continue doing mutual aid and ever since then the Love Train has kept moving. I have been to over 15 neighborhoods in Chicago and made over 30 stops since June 1st. I will continue to do more stops and keep this going for as long as I can. I show Chicago love for all my friends I have lost to gun violence and other injustices in Chicago. The love they showed me motivates me to love Chicago." People all over the world Join hands Start a love train, love train - The O'Jays *** Please follow along on instagram as well and learn more about Nita. 52 Phenomenal Women is now in its second year! This is week 48 of 52.2. Participants in this project will be supporting the efforts of Dress for Success Worldwide – Central. We are all stronger together and it is my sincere hope that we will be inspired by each other’s stories. Now is the time to celebrate as well as encourage one another. Tell your story!

August 5, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Even in the face of the pandemic, Chicago photographer Amy Boyle has uplifted inspiring stories of women for 100 consecutive weeks. As we all continue to self isolate, there is no better time to hear these motivational voices to remind us all of what makes each and every woman phenomenal. Through the project, Boyle continues to build a trusting community that encourages self love and confidence. One of the biggest takeaways during this time of uncertainty is that amplifying voices builds community, says Boyle. Weekly project created by photographer Amy Boyle honors, elevates women: What would happen if once a week we recognized someone who we think is phenomenal and shared her story with our community? Just imagine the list of inspiring women we’d have at the end of the year and how those connections can inspire others. Now imagine two years of phenomenal women – all sharing their story to help and inspire each other. Each week since September 2018, Amy Boyle has photographed a phenomenal woman and featured her personal narrative through the 52 Phenomenal Women Project. Participants, who are nominated by their peers, hail from 15 different U.S. states and range in age from 21-84. Year Two will conclude on September 9, 2020 and is on its way to becoming a book. To date the project has raised over $6,800 for Dress for Success Worldwide Central Chapter. Recent Media Moments for 52 Phenomenal Women: Jen Weigel Show: https://bit.ly/JenWShow Suzanne O'Brien Podcast: https://bit.ly/SuzanneOBrien Other media links: https://www.52phenomenalwomen.com/contact Contact the project’s creator and photographer, Amy Boyle, at amy@amyboylephoto.com or 312-380-5993 for media requests. (https://www.52phenomenalwomen.com/contact) “This is a phenomenal project and we are thrilled and fortunate to be a part of Amy’s creative vision and participation in the community. The beauty and spirit of each woman honors our global mission-- to empower women to thrive independently.” - Joi Gordon, CEO Dress for Success Worldwide About Amy Boyle: Amy Boyle is an internationally published photographer and passionate visual storyteller. She graduated from Northwestern University with a focus in business and art history, and her love for art has brought her to work with multiple large organizations both in Chicago and around the world, such as Broadway in Chicago, Fortune and Playbill, among others. Amy is a supporter of multiple female empowerment-focused groups, such as Women on Fire and O, the Oprah Magazine as a brand ambassador. Along with her husband, Amy has proudly raised four sons in Chicago. More info on project: Amy’s birthday wish from 2018 was to encourage others through the stories that have been featured on her blog and social channels: to start a dialogue of inclusion, support and recognition by celebrating the phenomenal qualities within each woman. There is no better time than the present moment. The best way to describe the project Amy embarked on is at the crossroad of #WomanCrushWednesday and Humans of New York. Why only women? Amy says, “I am continually supported and loved by my husband and four sons, but what I know in my heart is many women are not so fortunate. I want to support women, who – whether they realize it or not – are phenomenal. I am amazed at how many women have stories they just have to get out to be heard, to be seen.” Participants in the project are asked to donate to support Dress for Success Worldwide Central. To date, the project has raised over $6,800. We are stronger together. Amy would love to be able to reach an even wider audience by turning years one and two into a book. More information is located here on how you can support this endeavor: https://www.patreon.com/52PhenomenalWomen. You may follow along on the blog (https://www.52phenomenalwomen.com/) in addition to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. #52PhenomenalWomen #52PWP amy@amyboylephoto.com

Meet Anupy: In her own words - "Spice is my life. As a three-year-old still living in India, my mother tells the story that I loved Indian black salt - the seasoning for onion and cucumber salads - so much that I would skip around the dining table and grab salad by the fistful from everyone’s plate. My mouth still waters as soon as I think about really good, spicy Punjabi Indian food and a perfectly-spiced side salad. Moving to the United States shortly after and trying to navigate American culture on the outside and Indian on the inside of our home meant that I shied away from embracing my Indian roots and culture out of embarrassment. All I wanted was to be like all the other kids in my high school in Pennsylvania. Though, I still obsessed over Indian food and flavor at home. This passion and my quest to create Indian food memories for my daughters is what led me to quit my television reporting career. While I love reporting, I would come home shattered to see my kids eating bland food. Working the early morning shift - starting at 3 a.m. - and with a husband who traveled for work made it nearly impossible to create many if any Indian food experiences for my young kids like my own mother and grandfather did for me. My grandfather gave me my first cooking lesson at age 10 when he visited from his small village in India, and my mother diligently hand wrote all her recipes on 5 x 7 index cards for me to take to college, work on Capitol Hill, and then eventually graduate school in Hawaii. My family was always serious about food, but my schedule prevented me from sharing this with my own family. I was frustrated. So, I took some time away from daily reporting to cook, and cook, and cook. I started blogging around 2008. The idea was to start a human food experiment - to learn to make all the Indian recipes I grew up loving and writing about them on my website, indianasapplepie.com. My goal was to share the love of my culture and language with my kids. And, maybe even write a book in the process. It was my first cookbook, The Indian Slow Cooker. My mother discovered Indian for the crock pot back in the 1970s. We used it all the time, and it seemed to make sense that other folks would want to try the same recipes we’d perfected over the years. The hunch paid off - we sold tens of thousands of copies of that book alone - encouraging Americans to try cooking a cuisine they once thought complicated in the simplest of cooking tools. One book turned to three and I launched a spice & sauce line at select Whole Foods Markets under the brand name, Indian As Apple Pie. I love to teach classes and really interact with my customers and fans of my books. Last summer I was asked to teach cooking classes to kids in Switzerland through the summer program at the Leysin American School situated in the Swiss Alps. It's pure magic to see the lightbulb go off. For folks new to Indian food, it's this amazing look of surprise that they can recreate the same flavors from their favorite Indian restaurant at home. And, for second generation Indians, it's a sense of relief that they can recreate recipes from their childhood without giving up their day jobs. But, regardless of where the business or my books take me literally and figuratively my girls have made one thing clear - nothing can take the place of me cooking them their favorite Indian dal - complete with a side of spicy, tangy onions." *** Please follow along on instagram as well and learn more about Anupy. 52 Phenomenal Women is now in its second year! This is week 47 of 52.2. Participants in this project will be supporting the efforts of Dress for Success Worldwide – Central. We are all stronger together and it is my sincere hope that we will be inspired by each other’s stories. Now is the time to celebrate as well as encourage one another. Tell your story!