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Tag: Women’s Forum Mexico

At Your Home, Without Me: Ramatuelle, Jacqueline Franjou’s Essential Festival

August 1, 2020August 2, 2020 by JC Agid Leave a comment

At Your Home, Without Me: Ramatuelle, Jacqueline Franjou’s Essential Festival

Tonight, August 1st, 2020–and until August 10th. If you are in Ramatuelle, a little village above the Mediterranean Sea near Saint Tropez in the South of France, you might be among the luckiest people. While almost all summer cultural events have been canceled in France, Jacqueline Franjou is opening the 2020 Festival of Ramatuelle, a series of plays, stand-up comedies, and concerts under the stars and the songs of crickets. A must attend annual event, a rarity this year.

This summery feast  has been scheduled every August since 1985. But with movies, theaters, operas and museums still closed in most places around the world because of containment and a very much still present covid19 pandemic, the mere possibility to see comedians and musicians on a stage has become an extraordinary experience. This year’s Festival is an act of audacity and resistance, against all odds, a small, yet safe step to keep us on the pace of being humans, together. 

I was fortunate to attend last summer and I remember fondly the performance of French actor Gérard Depardieu (Golden Globe 1991 for Peter Weir’s movie Green Card) sing Barbara’s most iconic songs in a soft and elusive voice.

I cannot go this summer but will have a special thought for Franjou, the co-founder and President of this Festival, a woman I was lucky enough to work with for a few years and who has never been afraid to be disruptive to keep all of us thinking beyond the obvious. We need this festival, we need culture to fill our hopes and dreams, we need words and scores and stories to pave our immediate future.

Next is the translation from a French interview I did with Franjou while I was still confined in New York and she was already planning this week’s performances (published in Le Petit Journal).

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Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Covid-19, Culture, Fire Chat With, Not At Home With, Women can have it all
Tagged Barbara, Christophe, Covid-19, COVID19, Gérard Philipe, Gerard Depardieu, Green Card, Guy Bedos, Jacqueline Franjou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Laurent Cochet, Michel Boujenah, Peter Weir, Pierre Desproges, Ramatuelle, Saint Tropez, Women's Forum, Women's Forum Brazil, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, Women's Forum Mexico, Women's Forum Myanmar

At Your Home Without Me with Vanessa Serrano: Confined Bodies, but Free Souls with

March 28, 2020June 16, 2020 by JC Agid 2 Comments

At Your Home Without Me with Vanessa Serrano
Confined Bodies, but Free Souls. At Last

‘When I bared my soul it seems you did not hear‘
Joe Jackson | Body and Soul

Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu recently posted on Instagram a drawing of a person seated in a lotus position. “If you can’t go outside,” the caption read, “go inside.”

“A sound advice,” wrote Diane Von Furstenberg who shared the post @therealdvf.

‘If you can’t go outside, go inside’ is exactly what Mexican author and entrepreneur Vanessa Serrano—who has developed her professional work as a path to search for her own purpose—invites people to focus on.

“I believe we should take today’s opportunity to observe our minds,” Vanessa told me in a phone interview.

To ease people’s confinement, Serrano has created a series of free online sessions in Spanish  called Healing Detox and Spiritual Awakening. 

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Mexico, Mexico City, Mujeres, Not At Home With, Spirituality, Ten Questions With, Uncategorized, Well Being, Women in Mexico
Tagged Awakening, Awareness, Confinement, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Empathy, Jacques Attali, JC Agid, Meditation, Mexico, Soul, Spirituality, Vanessa Serrano, Wake Up, Well Being, Women Empowerment, Women's Forum Mexico, Yuval Noah Harari, Zertu

The Three Sins of Mayra González

August 23, 2018April 12, 2019 by JC Agid 2 Comments

WOMEN CAN HAVE IT ALL | SERIES | THE THREE SINS OF MAYRA GONZALEZ

A manager at Nissan Mexico once told Mayra González that she was very talented and would have a great career in the industry, but “you have three sins,” he added: “You are young; you are a woman; and you are Mexican.”

Fast forward more than 15 years: Mayra González was eventually promoted in 2016 at age 39 to the top job at the Japanese car company’s fourth largest business unit, thus inducted to the very exclusive club of female CEOs, a mere three years after Mary Barra became the first woman appointed CEO at General Motors.

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Mexico, Mujeres, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women in Mexico
Tagged Carlos Ghosn, Cámara de Comercio Franco Mexicana, CEO Champions, Choisissez tout, General Motors, Hajer Najjar, JC Agid, Jean-Christian Agid, Marry Barra, Mayra Gonzalez, Nathalie Loiseau, Nissan, Nissan Mexico, Women can have it all, Women CEO, Women Empowerment, Women's Forum Mexico

Mamá: ¿Por qué trabajás?

August 23, 2018April 12, 2019 by JC Agid Leave a comment

WOMEN CAN HAVE IT ALL | SERIES | MAYRA GONZALEZ, CEO DE NISSAN MEXICO, RESPONDE A SU HIJA

(translated from English by WordFactor | as published by the Huffington Post Mexico)

En su revolucionario libro sobre las mujeres Elige Todo, Nathalie Loiseau, una de las diplomáticas de mayor jerarquía en Francia, y madre de cuatro niños, escribió: “Recuerdo la ironía con la que se decía que, de niña, yo quería tenerlo todo”.

Actualmente sirve en el gobierno del presidente francés Macron como Ministra de Asuntos Europeos, Loiseau agregó: “Pobre ingenua: ingenua por quererlo, ingenua por creer que era posible e ingenua por expresarlo. Sigo siendo ingenua y estoy orgullosa de ello. Tenerlo todo; vivir la vida plenamente; no rendirse antes de empezar: Quisiera que esto fuera posible para todas las mujeres”.

‘Ingenua’? La directora general de Nissan México, Mayra González, también es una de las mujeres que quiere tener todo.

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Posted in Byline JC Agid, Mexico, Mujeres, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women in Mexico
Tagged Carlos Ghosn, Cámara de Comercio Franco Mexicana, CEO Champions, Choisissez tout, General Motors, Hajer Najjar, JC Agid, Jean-Christian Agid, Marry Barra, Mayra Gonzalez, Nathalie Loiseau, Nissan, Nissan Mexico, Women can have it all, Women CEO, Women Empowerment, Women's Forum Mexico

Relentless lives: Pepita Serrano

June 13, 2018April 12, 2019 by JC Agid 1 Comment

THREE AMAZING WOMEN | PART 1 | PEPITA SERRANO | PATRON OF THE ARTS

I would like the first three posts of this blog to focus on the recent Amazing Women Jennifer Milliken and I selected for the 2017 Women’s Forum Mexico. They had one concept in common: being relentless.

Pepita Serrano is one of these women. Pepita Serrano is the founder of SIVAM (International Society of Mexican Art and Values), a foundation dedicated to culture and the arts in Mexico and one of the most well-known women in Mexico City.

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Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Mexico, Mujeres, Women Empowerment, Women in Mexico
Tagged Alejandra Gomez, Amazing Women, Angélica Alejandre, Bristol Hotel, Javier Solorzano, Jennifer Milliken, Leonardo Sanchez, Opera, Pepita Serrano, Rolando Villazon, SIVAM, Ugo Mahieux, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, Women's Forum Mexico

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