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You Can’t Learn to Swim When You’re Drowning
- February 13, 2024
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
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A couple of summers ago, I had a swimming scare in Black Lake, Michigan, after jumping off a boat to swim with colleagues. I was accustomed to jumping off boats into the water back home in Florida, but didn’t consider that Michigan summer water is much colder than Florida summer water, that I was less...
When Believing is Seeing
- December 18, 2023
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
When I was in elementary school, I spent many an afternoon standing, sitting, and bounding around the vinyl kitchen chairs with my Dad teaching me the times tables. When I would miss one he would chide and belittle me, tease me, and shame me. He would wonder out loud how I could possibly miss 6...
Team work makes the dream work
- August 4, 2023
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Newsletter, Thriving in the Fight
I’ve done a lot of traveling this year during the Thriving in the Fight: In Conversation Tour Across the Country and saw so many amazing things and people around the USA. Though this was a very fulfilling experience, both personally and professionally, I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t also tiring. So, I scheduled…
Thriving Through Spring
- May 31, 2023
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Newsletter, Thriving in the Fight
It’s been an eventful month! We’ve really been thriving through exciting events, big announcements, and getting to know more of you during Thriving in the Fight: In Conversation Across the Country. At Faith in Action, we officially launched our 50th anniversary campaign which will culminate in November with a beautiful celebration of our organization’s long…
Newsletter April 2023
- April 28, 2023
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Newsletter, Thriving in the Fight
Welcome to When We Thrive, my offering to you about everything that happens while we’re thriving in the fight, or at home, or when we’re happy, or when things aren’t going the way we hoped they would…whenever. Because thriving is about how we create the biggest, baddest lives that we want to live FULLY and utilizing…
Do You Ever Feel Invisible?
- November 1, 2022
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
Five years ago, on Halloween in 2017, I attended a training in New York City with two newfound friends, Gabrielle and Rhonda. We were quite a threesome. Gabrielle (Ral) Dolan is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker who helps leaders tell better business stories. Dr. Rhonda Glover Reese is a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)…
Record-breaking funding, life-changing impact and personal growth: all thanks to Denise Padin Collazo’s award-winning book
- June 29, 2022
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
For Denise, participating in advocacy is not a luxury – it’s a necessity. Across three decades, she has seen Latinas and women of colour work together to win some of the most transformative social justice changes. But she’s also seen the personal toll it’s taken on them and has watched them slowly burn out. Denise…
I Am From
- June 28, 2022
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
I am from dirt floor where the alcaldía now stands. I am from hands twisted from sewing by the piece. I am from where people say ‘Buen Día’ whether they know you or not, where the salt water of ocean meets the salt water tears, and salty sweat of my ancestors. Where the grief of...
We all fall down. It’s how we get up that matters.
- March 23, 2022
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
I just returned to work after having taken off 5 months in a fully paid sabbatical leave. It’s been a gift from God to me. I had spent 20 years at a social change nonprofit organization. Alright, now how many of you want to come work at my company? While I was on sabbatical I did so…
Lessons on Leadership from the Cowardly Lion
- March 21, 2022
- Posted by: Denise Collazo
- Category: Thriving in the Fight
Do you remember the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz? I love the way he strokes his tail to settle his nerves. How tremors overtook him as he cowered behind Dorothy for protection. But most importantly, do you remember watching him turn into the Courageous Lion? Like the lion in the story, every day as leaders, we…
