Inspiring Women Magazine May 2023
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Photo feature<br />
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<strong>Inspiring</strong> <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>: Through My Lens<br />
<strong>Inspiring</strong> You<br />
We are looking for your photos of friends, family or yourself that you think embody<br />
the next issue's theme of "We are Talking Fashion: Innovators, Trendsetters,<br />
Changemakers and ... Activists".<br />
Photos should be in color and a minimum of 300 dpi. Send your photo with your<br />
name, FAWCO Club and a maximum 50-word caption explaining why the photo fits<br />
the theme to:<br />
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June 12, <strong>2023</strong><br />
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That’s Inspired!<br />
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“T he last time always seems sad,<br />
but it isn't really. The end of one thing<br />
is only the beginning of another.”<br />
– Laura Ingalls Wilder,<br />
These Happy Golden Years<br />
In the summer of 2016, out of the blue, I<br />
received a phone call from Sallie Chaballier, then<br />
1st VP Communications for FAWCO, in which she<br />
said the FAWCO Board had decided to launch a<br />
new magazine and my name had been<br />
suggested as editor.<br />
I had been in Cologne for three years and was<br />
AIWCC club newsletter editor. When Sallie called,<br />
we were in the process of negotiating a return to<br />
our home in Great Britain, but our imminent<br />
departure was under wraps. Mere days before<br />
she called, I had said to Paul that I would like<br />
to find a way to stay involved with FAWCO once<br />
home. My first thought on speaking to Sallie<br />
was: did she have a hotline to Ford HQ!<br />
Over the next few months I got to know the<br />
amazing Elsie Bose, who had first pitched<br />
the magazine‘s concept to the Board, as we<br />
thrashed out our ideas for the magazine.<br />
Between the two of us we found ten courageous<br />
women who trusted us with their stories and<br />
got it printed in time for the launch at the 2017<br />
Biennial Conference<br />
in Mumbai. <strong>Inspiring</strong><br />
<strong>Women</strong> was born!<br />
Over the last six<br />
years I have led the<br />
<strong>Inspiring</strong> <strong>Women</strong><br />
team as it has grown<br />
and developed while<br />
publishing an<br />
incredible 32 issues<br />
featuring over 400<br />
women from more<br />
than 65 FAWCO clubs.<br />
That is a lot of words<br />
and a lot of<br />
inspiration in<br />
anyone’s book and I<br />
am so proud of what<br />
we have been able<br />
to achieve.<br />
a note from<br />
the editor<br />
But as John Irving puts it: “You only grow by<br />
coming to the end of something and by<br />
beginning something else.” So it is time for<br />
me to hand over the editorship into the very<br />
capable hands of Michele Hendrikse Du Bois.<br />
(Thanks so much for agreeing to take my baby<br />
on for me, Michele!) But in this my last issue<br />
as editor, the team has allowed me to have a<br />
look back through our archives to find my six<br />
favorite profiles and update them for this<br />
issue: Goodbyes and New Beginnings.<br />
As well as these profiles, we have interviews<br />
with the outgoing and incoming FAWCO<br />
presidents, an article introducing the new<br />
<strong>Inspiring</strong> <strong>Women</strong> Team and a series of other<br />
interesting features for you.<br />
Before I go I would like to give a big shout out<br />
and massive thank you for all your hard work<br />
to Berit, Hayley and Karen, who are also moving<br />
on to new things. I wish you success in your<br />
new endeavours. The rest of the team, past<br />
and present, also deserve huge kudos and have<br />
my sincere thanks, as do the FAWCO Board for<br />
giving me the opportunity. My biggest thanks of<br />
all go to the wonderful Elsie Bose. It has been<br />
a real pleasure working closely with you for the<br />
last six years Elsie, and I will miss<br />
our working camaraderie very<br />
much (I hope you realise this<br />
is definitely not Goodbye to<br />
our friendship).<br />
So finally thanks to you, our<br />
readers, thanks for six wonderful<br />
years of inspiration, learning and<br />
development. For the record,<br />
I think all FAWCO women are<br />
inspiring and that definitely<br />
includes YOU, not just the<br />
women featured in the <strong>Inspiring</strong><br />
<strong>Women</strong> pages!<br />
Best wishes!<br />
Liz<br />
<strong>Inspiring</strong>women.editor@fawco.org<br />
Raising a toast to the last 6 years<br />
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