October 18, 2021

BOSLadies,

So much to share this week but let's start out with some BOSLadies who are absolutely crushing it!

Brittany Lynch was interviewed by the New York Times and featured in Moms Are Back to Work, But Child Care Resources Are ‘Laughable’. She will be speaking at WILD National's Lightfair session Voices of WILD: Rising for Social Change on Thursday October 28th at 1pm EST. Her talk is entitled The Secret Shame of Working Moms. If you missed it, you can still listen to her March 25th episode of the Lytei podcast. Your passion is inspiring, even more so knowing that the battle is taxing.

Speaking of Lytei...watch Sara Schonour kick ass on the Netflix competition show 'Baking Impossible'!!! Top ten on Netflix last time I checked and covered by The Boston Globe, among many other proud New England publications. We are all SO proud of you and filled with gratitude that you got to show your immense talent on another platform.

Thank you to everyone who attended Tuesday's BYOB meeting and to Brittany for hosting! I can provide the Weekly Three many times over with everything we talked about and feel completely invigorated by it.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 9th at 6pm EST and we will be reading Blue Mind:The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. This book has changed my life, and I don't say that lightly. And guess what? The author is very responsive on Instagram and has offered to do a Q&A session with us for our meeting!!! I'm personally so thrilled and can't wait to hear what this book does for you. If you like audiobooks, I recommend listening to this one (more on that below).

The Weekly Three +

1. Something about what was brought to the October meeting: What BOSLadies are reading: The Long Game, The Creative Spark and Say Nothing. The Long Game by Dorie Clark is a quick read and an important reminder "about doing small things over time to achieve our goals—and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard". Say Nothing has a moral ambiguity about violence and crime that is unusual for a book about a woman (Alexandra, you put that more eloquently but you deserve credit for the point you make).

2. Something about the fear of color and minimalism: Catherine brought Chromophobia to the table on Tuesday. The subsequent discussion taught me about its roots and that chromophobia originates in the rejection of cultures with a lot of color and pattern. The conquering of a culture was and is successfully achieved by eradicating culture, tradition and identity. Color is used to express, it is delightful. Suppression of color is suppression of expression of personality.

Monochrome is a characteristic of minimalism. It was argued that minimalism is ironically commercial in that you are less likely to be able to use inherited or found things if they must fit the criteria of sleek, linear, muted in color. Minimalist spaces often do not have many places for storage and visible clutter is antagonistic to the aesthetic. This makes minimalism for the elite - those who are not as financially stable often cannot afford to buy new items whenever they are needed. They keep things that may be needed again and for that, you need storage. 3. Something about audiobooks vs. text: When Listening to a Book is Better than Reading it. This is a fun one. The author of this opinion piece argues that a narrator can bring a depth to text that otherwise would be flat, noting Tiffany Haddish and Matthew McConaughey as examples. It seems that nonfiction is best read by the author but one BOSLady noted that in the case of one comedian, just having audio made you realize how much his comedy relied on visuals. The Bonus Items

- don't finish a book that you're not enjoying just because you started it

- success is controlling how you spend your time

- why business people should join book clubs

- a job is not a personality

Thank you for taking the time to read,

Amber