JWI launched the anticipated new Women’s Impact Network (on Zoom) Tuesday, September 22nd! Watch it again (or check out what you missed):
For years, we’ve been hearing that women over 40 crave the same networking opportunities that our Young Women’s Leadership community affords Jewish professionals in their 20s and 30s. We’ve been listening, and now we’re thrilled to launch the Women’s Impact Network - a community of women over 40 looking to connect with and learn from each other. This is about so much more than leadership; it’s about making an impact on the world.
Our first event begins with a cocktail-mixing class (with the timely theme “turning lemons into lemondrop martinis”) led by Kim Oster-Holstein, co-founder and chief alchemy officer of Twisted Alchemy. Then we talk with JWI Board Chair Ellen Stone, executive vice president of marketing at Bravo, Oxygen, and Universal Kids, and Abby Greensfelder, founder and CEO of Everywoman Studios, on the stories we tell and the stories we should be telling about women.
This inaugural event was free, but subsequent Women’s Impact Network events will be available to members only.
Network membership is just a $500 minimum donation per year, or $42 a month - the cost of a yoga class; less than a dinner out.
JWI welcomes, embraces, affirms, and invests in women of every race, culture, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
Make a Lemon Drop Martini out of Lemons!!
photo by Schezar
Ingredients
2 oz Vodka
.5 oz Cointreau
1 oz Twisted Alchemy Cold-pressed eureka lemon juice
1oz simple syrup
Superfine sugar and lemon peel
Method:
Rim a coupe glass with lemon juice and superfine sugar.
Add all the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into the rimmed glass. Garnish with lemon peel.
For Spiritfree (non-alc) cocktail:
2oz Topochico or your favorite sparkling water
1 oz Twisted Alchemy Cold-Pressed Eureka Lemon Juice
1 oz simple syrup
Superfine sugar and lemon peel
For a homemade simple syrup recipe,
In a medium saucepan, combine 1 cup white sugar and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Allow to cool.
Kim Oster-Holstein is the co-founder and chief alchemy officer of Twisted Alchemy, providing award-winning cold-pressed juices and craft mixers for the hospitality industry and home cocktail kits for craft cocktail enthusiasts. Twisted Alchemy partners with world-renowned restaurant hospitality groups, hotels, and event venues, with the mission to elevate spirits. With COVID19, the company is elevating people’s spirits at home with the Quarantine Cocktail Hour and other virtual gatherings, from client cocktail hours and team virtual huddles to the virtual holiday party, offering a Toast of Inspiration. Kim is a passionate serial entrepreneur, mentor, and business coach. She was named the Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year 2009 by Chicago’s Womens’ Business Development Center and was recognized with the Womens’ Business Enterprise National Council Star Award in 2010. She was an inductee in the 2011 Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. Kim was honored as a JWI Woman to Watch in 2010. She is former board chair and on the board of trustees of JWI, and is programming chair and member of the executive committee of Northwestern University’s Council of One Hundred. Kim graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a MSA in 1990, and received her BBA in marketing from the University of Texas School of Business in 1989.
Ellen Stone, executive vice president of marketing at Bravo, Oxygen, and Universal Kids, oversees the development of all brand strategy, consumer, ad sales, affiliate marketing, license/merchandising, and digital marketing, for Bravo, Oxygen and Universal Kids, enjoying great success, with multi-million dollar campaigns for franchises such as The Real Housewives and Top Chef. She also serves as a member of each brand’s senior management team shaping the networks’ overall strategy. She is the mastermind behind some of Bravo & Oxygen Media's most successful ventures, including the two-time New York Times best-selling Top Chef cookbook series, Top Chef: The Tour and Oxygen’s entry into Crime Con. Additionally, under Stone’s watch, her team earned the 2010 Digital Publishing & Advertising Award for Best Social Engagement Campaign, an IMA Outstanding Achievement Award, multiple Cablefaxies and CTAM Mark Awards. Stone holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and a minor in French from Lehigh University School of Business and is a graduate of CTAM University at Harvard School of Business. She was a JWI Woman to Watch in 2011, and currently serves as chair of JWI’s board of trustees.
Abby Greensfelder is the founder and CEO of Everywoman Studios, a purpose-built media company whose mission is to tell female focused stories that might not otherwise be told, and that can have a positive impact on our culture. She is also a co-founder of Half Yard Productions, an award-winning production company specializing in non-fiction series and documentaries, including Say Yes to the Dress for TLC, How the States Got Their Shapes for History, and The Last Alaskans for Discovery. Prior to starting Half Yard Productions, Greensfelder was senior vice president of programming and development for Discovery Channel, where she launched programs including Deadliest Catch, Myth-Busters, and Planet Earth. Greensfelder holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an MBA from Wharton. She serves on the board of the Alliance for Women in Media and is a limited partner at Rethink Impact, a venture firm investing in female-led businesses. She was one of JWI’s Women to Watch honorees in 2011.
Network Launch Committee:
Heidi Brodsky
Jeanne Ellinport
Elise Hauptman
Jean Milbauer
Stephanie Nashman
Kim Oster-Holstein
Rhea Schwartz
Sharon Slotkin
