Stories

Every woman & every girl inspires us.

We are deeply grateful to those who have shared their stories about breakthroughs in their lives, the ways in which they have overcome fears, beliefs, or events that once kept them from connecting with their inner strength and recognizing their follow the link amazingness. Some of these stories are stories of pain and how a women or girl triumphed over it.

As you read these stories, rather than focusing on the pain, choose to focus instead on the triumph and the ways that others have overcome what may once have seemed impossible to overcome.

Let's celebrate their triumphs!

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Remembering My “Star Power”

I have been a Girls on the Run Head Coach at Ashlawn Elementary for eleven years. I first became involved […]

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Weird

Weird. That mostly sums up my social life struggles growing up as a girl. Weird. My family is “weird”, my […]

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Success in Every Step

Running has been part of my life since I was a teenager. I really could not imagine my life without […]

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More than Just Girls Running

In the third grade, I was introduced to an after school program that was coming to my school. For girls […]

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Mantras About Me

I am me. With all my quirks, inadequacies, faults, and mistakes. You don’t know the half of them. But I […]

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She Had It in Her All Along

I often believe that the best way to celebrate someone’s birthday is to focus on the impact they have made […]

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Power of the Scar

I am amazing because I’m a survivor! My story begins at a time when I was a young girl. I […]

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The Power of Your Voice

The narrative of a woman’s value being in her vagina, ability to do homely chores and care to the family […]

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Who am I? – Overcoming Low Self Esteem and Self Pity

My story is a long one, but I hope you can read to the end and be inspired as you […]

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Empowering Girls and Women to Achieve their Potential

It was a startling discovery five years ago that prompted me as a then 21-year-old girl in Uganda to found […]

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MY WORTH

My name is Nancy but I go by many names depending on who is addressing me. Some, actually one person, […]

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I am not one of them

Going through school was quite hard, I can’t say I suffered for sure because my mother tried to avail the […]