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OF THE MOST POPULAR PLACES VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 NOV/DEC 2017
TO VISIT FOR THE HOLIDAYS
NEW: CHECK OUT YOUR HERISCOPE!
WEIGHT LOSS RESOLUTIONS, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’S
MIA KANG
LEADER OF OUR GIRL GANG
WHO WILL SUCCEED?
GETTING THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS ALONE FALL-WINTER FASHIONS
32 (Social Commentary)
The OPIOID Crisis
A Closer Look at This National Problem
Nov/Dec
CONTENTS F E AT U R E S
08 Basketball’s Grip on Diversity is Managed by Her: Nzinga Shaw
Men’s Basketball Gets a Lesson in Diversity
20 When the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” Isn’t:
Coping with Wintertime Sadness
11 (Beauty) Products to Keep Skin Radiant this Winter Try These Products to Fight Against Harsh Winter Weather
13 (Food) Holiday Recipe: Turtle Pumpkin Pie
Skip the Store-Bought Pie this Year with this Easy Recipe
12 (Relationships) Getting Through the Holidays Alone
Tips to Not Just Survive but Actually Enjoy the Holidays
30 (Relationships) How to Ruin the Holidays for Your Partner
Keep Everyone Happy This Season by Avoiding These Nasty Habits
38 (Family) The Winter of Our Discontent
How to Nip Family Political Tensions in the Bud During the Holidays
45 (Home) Under $10 Skincare Stocking Stuffers
Run Out of Ideas for Small Gifts? Try These…
14 (Food) Can a Coffee Lover Switch to Tea? With These Easy Tips, You’ll be Saying, “Coffee, Who?”
16 (Hair) Hollywood’s Most Sought-After Colorist: Michael Canalé The Man Behind the Highlights
26 (Fashion) ScreenShop: A New Way to Find Your Favorite Fashions
Converting any Screenshot into a Digital Fashion Store
41 (Fashion) Project Runway’s Christopher Palu Releases Line of “Pher” Coats Winter Never Looked So Good
31 (Personal Growth) Make Time for Your Goals in 2018 Never Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions? Here’s Why
44 (Beauty) Tips for National Healthy Skin Month
Keep Your Skin Flawless All Year Long
18 (Theater) Women Making Strides Backstage and in the Spotlight These Women are Taking Broadway into Their Own Hands
23 (Books) A Fistful of Honey and Holding the Net 28 (Music) Antigone Rising to the Top A Look into The Girl Band That is Rocking Out to Equality
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(Music) Top 10 Female Artists of 2017
19 (Fitness) New Year, New Yoga
Ease into Your New Year’s Resolutions with a Sun Solute to Yoga
22 (Wellness) “Tis the Season to be Thankful for Superfoods”
Find Out Which Superfoods Give Your Skin That Healthy Glow
40 (Fitness) Weight Loss – Who Will Succeed Artificial Intelligence Knows if You Will Keep your Weight Loss Resolutions
47 (Faith/Spirituality) Find the Fearless Path Finding Your Way to Spiritual Freedom hers-magazine.com
35 (Hobbies) Creative Ways to Use Mason Jars 48 Mia Kang: Leader of Our Girl Gang
A Triple Threat of Beauty, Brains and Bravery
Spice Up Your Home with These Country-Chic Crafts
36 (Movies) Her Holiday Movie Releases
Liven Up Your Holiday Season with These End-of-Year Movie Releases
17 (Money) The Feel Good of Doing Good Tis the Season of Charitable Giving
24 (Money) How to Choose a Charity Make Your Donation Count
27 (Business) Mother and Daughter Run Companies Sometimes It Pays to Go into Business with Your Mom
46 (Business) Land Your Dream Job The Top 10 Questions that Will Impress Any Hiring Recruiter
51 (Gadgets) Holiday Safety Gadgets
Protecting Your Family from HolidayRelated Accidents Just Got a Little Easier
42 (Travel) 10 of the Most Popular Places to Visit This Holiday Season It’s Not Too Late to Book Your Holiday Vacation
52 (Heriscopes) Find out Your Career Sign and What it Means.
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Editor’s Letter ‘Tis the season to be merry. Surely, most people will celebrate the holidays with family and friends, but what happens when you’re alone for the holidays? We learn in this issue that “alone” is not the same as “lonely.” As such, we provide simple tips for getting through the holidays alone. As always, we highlight great women who inspire us in various ways. Sports Illustrated model Mia Kang provides a spark for those who won’t settle on just being attractive. With her Girl Gang, giving rise to an all-female boxing club, “Killa Kang” models determination and fearlessness. Nzinga Shaw, like Kang, is a fearless champion in sports, but of another sort. She fights for diversity within the male-dominated boardrooms of the NBA. Read more about both… The New Year is all about revisiting former goals and setting new ones, with the most popular usually about weight loss. Our challenge in this issue is “who will succeed?” Who will transform their minds as well as their bodies to attain lasting lifestyle changes? Whether it’s body fat or changing careers,
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transformation is never easy. That’s why we provide tips throughout this issue as inspiration. While we honor things for the year to come, we also look back on the best of 2017, including the top female artists. Something new to look for is our “Heriscopes,” developed by our associate editor Grace Kelley. It is our aim in this publication to provide a roadmap of sorts for women who want more out of life. Thus, like a horoscope, the heriscopes helps women identify their career/lifestyle brand and then follow the characteristics of that type in each issue. Check it out and let us know your thoughts! Share it online @hersmagazine or send us an email at editorial@hers-magazine.com Happy Holidays and see you in 2018! Annette R. Johnson
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NZ INGA SHAW MEN’S BASKETBALL GETS A LESSON IN DIVERSITY BY ANNETTE JOHNSON
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s the first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Atlanta Hawks, as well as the entire NBA, Nzinga Shaw immediately understood three significant things that could affect her job performance. Prior to her, there had been no such position. Because of how she landed the position, there was not much preparation. Most importantly, there was no clear path forward. She would have to create it. In September 2014, audio from a conference call emerged of the Hawks general manager Danny Ferry making racist comments about free agent Luol 8
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Deng. Then out comes the discovery of a racially inflammatory email written by the team’s controlling owner Bruce Levenson. According to his own admission, he suggested that the Hawk’s fan base was too heavily African-American. Worried that this would become a crisis similar to Donald Sterling, who lost ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers due to his racists comments, the Hawks were in search of damage control. The team management happened upon Nzinga during a meeting with Edelman, the high-powered PR agency she was working for at the time.
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Women Making Strides Backstage and in the Spotlight These Women are Taking Broadway into Their Own Hands BY LAURIANNA CULL
While New York has always had its share of powerhouse leading ladies take the stage, the women of Broadway are now running the show behind the scenes as well. Some of the top theatre ladies of 2017 include playwright, Lynn Nottage, who is now the first woman to ever win two Pulitzer Prizes for drama. The first was in 2009 for her play, Ruined, a story about the strength and perseverance of women in a civil war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. And now, only a mere eight years later, she has claimed the prestigious award yet again for her play, Sweat, a tale about women surviving the blue-collar work force during layoffs. In an industry dominated by male directors, Rebecca Taichman became the sixth woman in theatre history to win a Tony for best director, for her show, Indecent. Indecent, a trying story about lesbian love in 1923, was written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Paula Vogel. The show was saved after almost being kicked off Broadway when female producer, Daryl Roth, stepped in and extended the run of the show. And lastly, one of theatre’s favorite red heads, Bette Midler reprised her role in Hello Dolly! earning her yet another Tony for her mantle. Midler won Best Actress while the show also won Best Revival of a Musical and grossed $2.4 million weekly during 2017, coming in second only to Broadway phenomenon, Hamilton. 18
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‘Tis the Season to be Thankful for Superfoods Find Out Which Superfoods Give Your Skin That Healthy Glow BY KRISTIN MEENAGH
As the saying goes, “you are what you eat,” but have you ever really thought about how what you eat actually impacts your health? This holiday season, as we are surrounded by festive décor, family & friends and lots of delicious snacks – take a moment to think about how that extra drink or pastry puff might impact your health - skin health to be more exact. If not careful, the meals you are eating during the holiday season can increase skin health issues, resulting in dry, lackluster skin. How can you avoid this and maintain a natural golden glow? By making sure to include colorful superfoods in all your meals. Colorful superfoods can include: • RED: cardiovascular, skin, and prostate wellness (i.e. tomatoes, cranberries, peppers) • YELLOW: support skin health, texture and cardiovascular wellness (i.e. squash, tomatoes, lemon) • GREEN: helps protect the healthy cells (i.e. artichokes, avocadoes, celery) • BLUE: linked to skin health (i.e. blueberries)
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Antigone Rising to the Top A Look into The Girl Band That is Rocking Out to Equality
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ne thing everyone can agree on: it’s been a tumultuous political year. As we approach our first holiday season in the official Age of Trump, many are wondering if they can see past their family members’ incendiary Facebook posts when “Family Feud” becomes more than a daytime TV show Steve Harvey host. Says family counselor Heather Elson, CMHC, NCC, the best way to not start a fire or fan the flames at a family gathering is to not bring matches. “Don’t bring it up! Keep the conversation light,” she says. “I personally like to deflect rising tensions with humor.” But for many families, prevention didn’t work, especially during 2016’s election, and there’s now bad blood. Susan* from Oregon says, “Sometime in October 2016, my sisterin-law got officially uninvited from Thanksgiving with the extended family over politics. We had our own separate Thanksgiving, and family gatherings have been awkward since then. I think in the long run the rescinded invitation to a longstanding family tradition was far more damaging than a face-to-face argument would have been.” The tried-and-true “don’t discuss politics at dinner” rule is nice but unrealistic for many families because politics are no longer seen as a single aspect of a person’s identity but rather an amalgamation of different aspects of their lives such as their beliefs and experiences. Furthermore, self-expression of our politics through social media betrays us. When your profile pic is of you in a pink pussy hat, it might be hard to convince Aunt Betty that you’ve “always” loved cats. There’s also the matter of what to do in the moment when, Cousin Sheryl runs her mouth during the Thanksgiving football game the way she runs her fingers posting on social media. To debate civilly with someone, Elson says, “Don’t go into an argument trying to sway someone or change their mind. Use ‘I feel’ statements—sincerely, not like ‘I feel you’re completely wrong.’ Remember that we can only control ourselves and our reactions to things that happen to or are said to us.” hers-magazine.com
Even family members who are aligned politically are not without their strife. Says Monica* from California, “On the side of my family [that I agree with politically], we are all so passionate and vocal that many family gatherings turn into us all complaining about the state of the world. It’s a bummer.” Elson says, “No one can make you feel something. That’s you feeling the feeling, and you have to take responsibility for your feeling.” It’s easy to deflect blame when we’re angry—“Uncle Ted made me mad when he made that gross ‘locker room’ joke!”—but Elson says you have to take ownership of the feeling and choose how long you’re going to wallow in it. She says, “Your anger is not the other person’s fault.” There are, of course, some political tensions that run deeper than just bickering about Cousin Linda’s tweet. For instance, a transgender person facing a family vehemently opposed to their transitioning, or a racist family balking at their daughter engaged to someone outside her race. Filial relationships are, after all, relationships, and occasionally they need breakups like romantic relationships do. Discuss with a therapist if the offending family member(s) exhibit these signs that they’re emotionally abusing you: gaslighting (lying to you to make you doubt your perception of the world), feeling like you have to say the “right” things around them or they’ll get angry at you, constant criticism, threatening, bullying, and intimidation/manipulation. Then, work with them to start the estrangement process. Hopefully the taste of Grandma’s turkey (her basting schedule is on point) is a salve to any family tensions this year, but here’s one final stress-reducing trick you can do with your hands under the table if people act up again: With both hands, touch your pinky to your palm, then your ring finger to your palm, then your middle and so on, repeating a four-word mantra to go with each finger such as “Peace begins with me,” or, in the spirit of the season, “Let’s eat some pie.” *Names and identifying details have been changed | N ovem ber/D ec em ber 2 0 1 7 | H ER S Ma gazi n e |
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IT’ S N OT TO O L AT E TO B OOK YOU R H O L IDAY VACAT I ON Whether you want to celebrate Christmas, ring in the New Year, or skip both and avoid the holiday vacation crowd, there are plenty of options around the world that can provide unique cultural experiences. American Express Travel looked at the 10 destinations that have experienced the greatest increase in flight bookings during this year’s fourth quarter, and it found a wide range of cities across the globe. Some provide opportunities for skiing and unique holiday celebrations, while others allow travelers to get out of the cold and catch some sun. These are some of the destinations that travelers are flocking to this holiday season.
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over her head is juxtaposed with a video of her in the same pose, only she’s doing squats while two trainers lightly kick her in the stomach. Of course, having a social media presence means dealing with critics, on and off social media. But Kang mostly shrugs them off. “If you have haters, that means you’re doing something right. I take it as a compliment,” says Kang. When she started muay thai fighting professionally, Kang says “people said, ‘oh, she must weigh 100 pounds and break like a twig,’” which was a total 180 from being in the fashion industry where she, a size 6, was told she was “too big” for certain jobs. “I don’t accept trolls, cyberbullying, or people posting false facts [on social media.] I was bullied as a child so I have no tolerance for negativity,” says Kang. Of course, “people are going to have their opinions and it’s easy to forget the hundreds of ‘you’re amazing’ comments and focus on the one negative one. It’s easy to let that fuel insecurity and doubt. But you’re the only one who knows yourself, your path, and what you want to do. Everything else is just noise.” A caption on one of Kang’s Instagram pictures reads, “When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a strong woman. So I became one. It’s that simple.” To help other girls become strong women, Kang, who is known as “Killa Kang” in
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some MMA circles, launched “Killa Girl Gang,” a muay thai workout class in Soho in NYC. Kang’s goals for the class are that “[women] get a taste of fighter training and feel very empowered. It doesn’t matter what we’ve been through or are going through. There is no judgment. All body types are welcome and everyone is comfortable and feels good. We focus on self-acceptance, self-awareness, and self-worth.” The Killa Girl Gang is young, but fans are already clamoring for Kang to bring it to other states and countries. Unlike Kang’s personal Instagram, the Killa Girl Gang (@ killagirlgang) account is not colorful, but it is filled with pictures of real women in the workout, motivational quotes, and badass celebrity women such as Beyoncé in her “Formation” video hat, braid, and necklaces outfit and Lucy Liu in Kill Bill Vol. 2. “I want women to leave [the class] feeling like badasses,” Kang says. “I want them to feel stronger than when they walked into the room and have a fierce support of one another that makes us better.” As Kang was going into her first professional muay thai match in April 2017, Sports Illustrated featured her again— as a fighter as well as a supermodel. When asked if there is any overlap between the three worlds of finance, modeling, and MMA fighting, Kang says there is none except that “I’ve learned I can do anything I put my mind to. As a child I was overweight and bullied and as a result of that, I became a fighter. Especially when you’re a woman, when you tick multiple boxes or don’t fit into a box, people panic. I could never be put in a box, so I created my own box.
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Her-iscopes: Career predictions from the stars Happy birthday, Scorpio and Sagittarius!
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December 22-January 19
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October 23-November 21 Strengths: Passionate, assertive, loyal, brave Weaknesses: Stubborn, jealous, irritable Your career predictions: Your great ideas and natural leadership skills mean that people naturally flock to you. They know you’ll kill it both in the big presentation and at office karaoke. You will (finally!) be rewarded with a leadership position, but when someone who now reports to you messes up, your first instinct will be to fly off the handle at them. Don’t give into this temptation. Take a walk, vent to a neutral party, and think diplomatically. You’ve worked too hard to get to your new position to let your temper sabotage it.
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November 22-December 21 Strengths: Adventurous, charismatic, optimistic, free spirit Weaknesses: Impatient, blunt, scatterbrained Your career predictions: Your least favorite thing in the world is feeling “stuck,” and you’ve been feeling this way lately. Perhaps you’re happy in your chosen field or job, in which case see if there’s a new technology or skill you can learn to help your business. Your intelligence and curiosity means you thrive in an academic setting, even if you don’t plan on formally furthering your education. If you’re not happy in your chosen job or field, take on tasks closer to your chosen field, or if not available, do it as a side hustle. Just be organized and don’t neglect your main job duties! 52
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You know how we dislike in other people what we dislike in ourselves? Well, Capricorn, you loathe being micromanaged, but when it comes time for you to supervise someone, you might find yourself falling into some micromanaging traps. Relax! Train the person properly, but then trust them to apply their training properly. Point out minor mistakes gently. Don’t shoot down their questions. They’ve— and you’ve—got this!
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January 20-February 18 You like to help people, but your idea of helping is “I wear a spandex costume under my clothes to help everyone in need” whereas everyone else’s is “we help our clients/customers.” Tap into your “super” altruism by researching ways to volunteer in your community or finding causes for which your company can fundraise. There are more ways than ever to volunteer these days, from VolunteerMatch which shows you new opportunities in your community every week (kind of like a Monster or Indeed job posting alert) to Taproot, which shows you one-off volunteer projects if you prefer freelancing.
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February 19-March 20 You may or may not be artistic, Pisces, but you’re certainly creative. Your unique way of looking at things intrigues people. Unfortunately, this means you’re prone to daydreaming and distraction. Even if your work network has proxies for forbidden sites, you still find ways to procrastinate. Download apps and extensions for your work computer like StayFocused or StrictWorkflow, and for the love of all that is holy, mute that group chat! hers-magazine.com
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