Chicago – February 23, 2022: Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® (wegg®) – a Chicago-based nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, inspire and nurture women business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide—announced today that Lifeway Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky is the first recipient of the Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership™.The award honors a wegg stakeholder who has gone out of her way to connect, create, contribute an...

This International Women's Day, I am reflecting on the heroic and brave women of Ukraine as they endure what is likely the biggest crisis of their lives. I reflect on the men and women being separated at the border-- the men staying valiantly to protect their country and the women laying the foundation for the safety of their family and loved ones. It is an impossible situation, that as spectators we watch what appears to be a WWII movie unfold, ...

Is there a better feeling than when someone puts you first, above anything else that’s happening at that moment? Like when you’re in a competition and someone stops to help you, jeopardizing her own chance to win … when someone silences a room so you can be heard … when someone reaches out with a great big hug of thanks … when your behind-the-scenes efforts are recognized publicly … These moments of being noticed, special, recognized, appreciated...