Remember your favorite health and fitness duo Laura Putnam and Patty Purper from WomenRock this year? Well you'll be thrilled to find out they sent in several articles and guides as follow-up resources for you all!

Be healthy, stay fit and be good to yourself! Enjoy!

 

Motion Infusion's Guide to Sweating the Small Stuff 

 

TimeOut Services' Guide to Tackling Stress

 

Burn Calories Using NEAT - Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis

As promised, here are some more fantastic resources courtesy of our very lovely WomenRock speakers!

• Sylvia Ventura (Hub Ventures) provided us with a her list of some of the best business accelerators in the Bay Area, including...
  • 500StartUps (tech)
  • Founder Labs (mobile technology)
  • HubVentures (social)
  • WomenImpactProject.com (women+impact)
  • GreenStart (cleantech)
  • Y Combinator (tech)
• Others worth considering:
  • MassChallenge (non profit)
  • Unreasonable Institute
  • TechStars
  • SeedCamp
  • Startup Weekend
  • Startup Garage
  • FounderLY
  • Founder Institute

Finally, she recommends the Business Model Generation by Osterwalder & Pigneur a great read for people considering launching a venture.

• Sarah Brown (@guruofnew) is offering 30 minutes of Guru of New Trencasting for FREE with the purchase of her new mystery, DEAD.COM. After buying the book on Amazon, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the name of the tech legend Samantha Darling is interviewing and she will set up your FREE training.

 

Happy reading ladies!

 

Missed our resources from Alicia Morga and Linda Adler last week? Find them here.

 

Our WomenRock speakers were fabulous enough to send along a TON of extra materials and resources for you ladies. Over the next couple weeks we'll be rolling them out on the blog, so be sure to keep checking back for more. And don't miss the great photos from the event below and on our Facebook Page!

 

• From Alicia Morga (@AliciaMorga):

Stay self-aware. Be conscious of your feelings throughout the day with Alicia Morga's iphone app, gottaFeeling (link to app store). It’s free to download and available in English and Spanish. For more info, women can visit the website www.gottafeeling.com and users can keep in touch via twitter: @gottaFeelingapp.

For slides from the presentation, visit Alicia's personal website, www.aliciamorga.com.  And if you just can’t get enough of her, sign up to be an alpha user of her consumer application: www.refleta.com.

 

• From Linda Adler (Pathfinders Medical):

Have you recently received a medical diagnosis? Or are you caring for someone undergoing a difficult medical challenge? Even if you havegreat medical providers and are comfortable using online tools, you may be looking for a personal, experienced medical decision guide who can help you synthesize new information, make hard choices and/or care successfully for someone at home.

Pathfinders Medical Decisions is here to help you and your family.  We assist you every step of the way:  obtaining information and support services, mediating difficult conversations with family members and the medical team, and supervising the hospital to home transition. We help you navigate the unfamiliar terrain that usually accompanies illness, and we do it in a way that honors your individual values and preferences

We offer personal consultation in your own home,  as well as classes and programs designed to help you navigate the healthcare system.  Call us today to get more information: 650-498-8276, or visit us online at www.pathfindersmedical.com.

 

For more pictures from WomenRock, visit our Facebook Page at facebook.com/FearlessWomenNetwork!

 

Stay tuned next week for more materials and resources from our outstanding WomenRock crew.

Notes from an intern and aspiring Fearless fem:

 

Having just finished David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect over the weekend (which I would definitely recommend anyone), I feel more excited than ever at the thought of new ideas, jobs, startups and endless possibilities that come alongside the disruptive, tradition-challenging digital revolution. As so beautifully stated in Facebook's recent film, The Social Network, "inventing a job is better than getting one," and what better time than now in the new Renaissance of the Silicon Valley?

Working for Fearless, I constantly see new opportunities in these emerging industries. Mobile apps, social media, blogging, online advertising, and on and on and on! Yet something stood out to me when I finally returned from my reading trance this weekend - there are a million and one opportunities, but where are all the women?

I hadn't before thought twice about this phenomenon. In fact, I loved The Social Network the first time I saw it. But just pre second viewing over the weekend, my friend made a small but disturbing comment - "Oh my god, women were represented terribly in this movie." What on earth are you talking about? I've seen this movie before and found no fault with it! And this is 2011 - by now we have to have reached a level of politically correct portrayals of women. But throughout the movie, I couldn't help but notice this time how little credit any girl was given for having half a brain.

Now before I go any further, I want to make a small disclaimer: I am not a self-proclaimed feminist, nor do I think The Social Network needs to be deprived its Academy Award, but I am concerning myself with this subject because I must look at it through a lens where my own future and career goals are affected. In the field of Media Studies, we call the process of identifying with characters interpellation. But between all the players I admire as thought-leaders in revolutionary technologies - Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Google), Biz Sone (Twitter), Bill Gates (Microsoft), etc., etc. - where is awoman I can relate to?

According to this article in the New York Times, while women own 40 percent of the private businesses in the U.S., they create only 8 percent of the venture-backed tech startups. By now we've come a long way from the domestic expectations of the 50's in almost all industries, so why in such nascent industries where the playing field is theoretically level are we back on the sidelines? And I don't want to hear the excuse that boys are more "into" video games and computer programming. Women thrive in the Web 2.0 world - we're inherently social, creative creatures, and what better sandboxes to play in than in new media, social media, and all other interactive Web 2.0 communications?

Sheryl Sandberg is one influential woman highlighted in the book who currently serves as Facebook's COO, and in the TED Talk embedded below she makes a lot of thoughtful points of her own attempting to explain the lack of women in leadership positions today. I think it is dangerous to stand by complacent in leaving women out of the big decisions in the new and exponentially growing tech industries. There are too few women leaders for us to look up to and use to imagine our own careers in tech, so we had better start stepping up to the plate so our children will eventually have some role models. It's time for a Silicon Valley takeover and for a little more estrogen on the interwebs.

Join me tomorrow in a Twitter chat dedicated specifically to WHY WOMEN ROCK! Follow the convo by using the hashtag #WomenRock, and share with us why you think women belong in the top leadership positions. Tell your friends and followers to join the #WomenRock convo, too, and maybe we can finally generate some buzz around this issue. Then, September 21 join us in the Silicon Valley to extend the conversation at our WomenRock conference.

 

Kim Bielak is a third year student at UC Berkeley pursuing a degree in Media Studies. She is our current Marketing and PR intern, and enjoys bringing you this very newsletter every week! Email Kim at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or follow her on Twitter via @kimbielak.