{"id":412,"date":"2015-11-19T14:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/?p=412"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:59:45","slug":"412-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/412-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Claire: Former Senator Olympia Snowe Has a Plan to Close the Confidence Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot of confidence to be a lone bipartisan voice\u00a0in Congress. In her 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) was famous for crossing party lines to get things done. She had to develop a thick skin in order to withstand her critics\u2014she was even lampooned on <em data-verified=\"redactor\" data-redactor-tag=\"em\">Saturday Night Live.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Such experience taught Snowe that being self-assured is an essential part of leadership: &#8220;[Being in] public office means putting yourself out there,&#8221; she says. And yet, because of a lack of self-esteem, by middle school, girls are 25 percent less\u00a0likely than boys to say they like taking the lead. &#8220;It&#8217;s sad because they have so much to achieve, but they don&#8217;t feel that way,&#8221; Snowe says. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all gone through it, but can we find a way\u00a0to help them avoid those feelings?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button_red\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/culture\/news\/a17073\/olympia-snowe-confidence-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the rest of this story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot of confidence to be a lone bipartisan voice\u00a0in Congress. In her 18 years in the U.S. Senate, Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) was famous for crossing party lines to get things done. She had to develop a thick skin in order to withstand her critics\u2014she was even lampooned on Saturday Night Live. Such&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snoweleadershipinstitute.com\/oswli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}