Pennsylvania Conference for Women

Pennsylvania Conference for Women Harnessing the collective wisdom, experience and energy of inspirational

The one-day conference will feature inspirational keynote speakers, skill-building breakout sessions and ample opportunities to develop new relationships with other women leaders. With sessions ranging from personal finance to health and wellness to career advancement, this unique event offers something for everyone.

09/30/2026

Some days at work, you need a reminder of who you are. ❤️

Sophie Mann, Chief Marketing Officer at Furnished Finder, keeps a Brag Book in her personal email. She has collected emails, Slacks, annual review comments, and compliments from leaders over the years. When she's having a hard day, she goes back and reads it. "It is a year's worth of dialogue," she says, and it gives her "a little bit of a reminder of who you actually are."

In our latest "That's a Good Question" episode on the Women Amplified podcast, host Lisa Bennett brings a listener's question to Sophie. The listener, whom we're calling Maya, had great support from leaders earlier in her career. After a reorganization, her new boss questioned her abilities and her questions, and Maya began doubting herself. Sophie shares how to recognize gatekeeping, respond to vague or shifting feedback, and protect your confidence. She also talks about what leaders can do to widen access to opportunity.

Try it yourself: the next time someone sends you a kind note, save it somewhere you can find it. (If your workplace has a policy on forwarding emails, copying the words into a note to yourself works too.)

🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://www.conferencesforwomen.org/when-the-woman-above-you-closes-the-door/

Know someone who needs this reminder? Send it their way.

This community is full of women building remarkable things. Drop a female-owned business, a founder you admire, or a cre...
09/25/2026

This community is full of women building remarkable things. Drop a female-owned business, a founder you admire, or a creative you can't stop recommending — and show some love to the women already in the comments. The best networking happens right here. 👇

09/24/2026

At our Massachusetts conference, America Ferrera named something most of us don't say out loud in professional spaces: competition with other women, jealousy, the sting of being left out. Feelings shaped by culture — not weakness, and not unique to any one of us.

Her point wasn't to pretend those feelings don't exist. It was to choose differently anyway: show up, answer the call back, answer the question with more than you had to. That's how community gets built — and it's the same principle behind everything Conferences for Women does.

She closed with this: "Love the women in your life so hard. Love them so hard."

We are so thrilled for America to return to our stage this year at the Texas Conference for Women on October 5 in Austin with even more incredible wisdom.

09/10/2026

On a team call this week, we asked everyone the same question: who has recently made you proud?

We gave people a moment to think. And what came back was exactly what you'd hope for.

A daughter who just walked into her first week of college — the kind of milestone that feels both sudden and a long time coming. A friend who held everything together as a solo parent for two weeks, the kind of holding-it-together that only the people closest to her probably even noticed. A sister who enrolled in school to pursue something she'd been putting off, because she decided the right time was now. And a friend who is actively training to travel from the North Pole to the South Pole — not planning it someday, doing it now.

What we love about this question is that the answers are always personal. You can admire someone famous from a distance. But pride is different. Pride means you've watched someone up close — you know what it cost them, what they were afraid of, what they pushed through anyway. That's not something you can feel about a stranger.

Who has recently made you proud? Tell us about her in the comments. 👇

Last week we shared a video of Gloria from our stage. Today we want to share something more personal.Gloria Steinem co-f...
09/08/2026

Last week we shared a video of Gloria from our stage. Today we want to share something more personal.

Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine when women had almost no platform of their own. She went undercover as a Pl***oy bunny to expose the working conditions women endured and turned it into one of the most talked-about pieces of journalism of the decade. She helped establish the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Ms. Foundation for Women. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She spent 92 years believing that the world could be more equal — and doing something about it every single day.

Over two decades, she also stood on the Conferences for Women stages. She sat in our rooms. She looked out at the women in front of her and reminded them every single time that their voice, their story, and their particular way of seeing the world was something nobody else could offer.

We have been sitting with her words all week. "We could not be wholly human without each other." That was how she lived. That was what she built. That is what she leaves behind.

Our Executive Director Jessica Black shared a personal memory of Gloria from the CFW Speaker’s Lounge in 2010 — warm, kind, authentic, needing and wanting absolutely nothing except to sit at a table and talk about everything and absolutely nothing. It is the kind of story that captures exactly who she was.

Jessica also wrote about what Gloria’s presence meant to our team, our community, and the thousands of women who got to be in her presence over the years. We think it’s worth sitting with today.

🔗 Link in comments to read Jessica’s full letter.

09/03/2026

We are heartbroken by the passing of Gloria Steinem at 92.

What we can say is this: she was a journalist who changed what journalism could do. An activist who helped build the infrastructure of the modern women's movement from the ground up. A writer whose voice gave language to experiences millions of women had never seen named before. A co-founder of Ms. Magazine at a time when women had no mainstream platform of their own. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And someone who, year after year, chose to stand on the Conferences for Women stage and speak directly to the women who needed her most.

In this video from our National Conference for Women in 2025, she told us to welcome difference as a source of fun and learning — and that even if you don't know what the reward will be, it is worth the adventure.

When joining us last year, she was still curious. Still hopeful. Still showing up.

We will miss her presence in our rooms more than we can say.

The women who move things forward aren't less scared or more ready, they just stopped waiting for a feeling that was nev...
08/17/2026

The women who move things forward aren't less scared or more ready, they just stopped waiting for a feeling that was never coming and started anyway.

Who in your life embodies this? 👇

Kind of chic to be unapologetically ambitious. Kind of chic to invest in yourself. Kind of chic to be in a room full of ...
07/31/2026

Kind of chic to be unapologetically ambitious. Kind of chic to invest in yourself. Kind of chic to be in a room full of women who get it.

That's CFW — and this fall, we're bringing it back to Philly.

📅 Pennsylvania Conference for Women — November 5 in Philadelphia

Registration is open now. Grab your tickets before they're gone.

🔗 Texas: https://cfw-insider.com/4fNCAtD
Pennsylvania: https://cfw-insider.com/44kFsZJ

07/30/2026

We took the tiny mic to the CFW community and asked: what's the one non-negotiable that keeps your day balanced?

We were fully prepared to take notes on morning routines, mindfulness practices, and the occasional cold plunge.

The women of CFW had a different message. Delivered clearly. Repeatedly. With feeling.

It was coffee. It was almost always coffee.

We respect the honesty. We share the commitment. We will not be taking further questions.
Drop your non-negotiable below — coffee answers enthusiastically accepted. 👇☕

Have you ever wished you could sit down with someone wise, experienced, and completely honest and just ask: "What would ...
07/17/2026

Have you ever wished you could sit down with someone wise, experienced, and completely honest and just ask: "What would you do if you were me?"

Maybe you're navigating a difficult situation at work. Wondering if it's time to make a move. Feeling stretched too thin and wondering if it's just you.

It's probably not just you. And we want to help.

That's a Good Question is a special segment of Women Amplified — the official podcast of Conferences for Women — where we take real questions from real women and bring them to experienced leaders and experts for honest, practical advice.

Here's the best part: you won't appear on the podcast. You can stay completely anonymous. And if your question is selected, we'll match it with an expert who has been there and can offer the kind of guidance you can actually use.

Past episodes have tackled everything from difficult colleagues to career uncertainty to burnout — and the conversations have resonated with thousands of women who were quietly asking the same thing.

One woman's question often becomes the answer hundreds of others needed to hear.

So what's yours? Drop it in the comments or head to the link below to submit. We'd love to bring your question to the podcast. 🎧

🔗 https://cfw-insider.com/4wJovnL

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