Visit her at is one of those books that you intellectually know but need reminders from time to time that a lot of our beauty ideals are mass marketed from advertisers. Vanessa currently lives in Lafayette, CA with her husband and two children, who remind her to take “mommy time-outs” when she’s about to lose her marbles. Loder is a certified Executive Coach, trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, past life regression and Vipassana meditation with Jack Kornfield. Vanessa received her MBA from Stanford University and her BA from Columbia University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude. Her personal transformation and soul awakening, subsequent research and work have led to thousands of brilliant, overwhelmed women finding their way back to soul.

After spending close to a decade working in finance on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Vanessa felt that she had climbed to the top of the wrong ladder.

Her TEDx talk “How To Lean In Without Burning Out” has over 150,000 views, over 18,000 people have taken Vanessa’s paid online courses and her guided meditations have been streamed over 787,000 times globally. Vanessa’s work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, the Huffington Post and Glamour magazine, among others. Vanessa Loder is an inspirational keynote speaker and sought-after expert on women’s leadership, mindfulness, stress management and sustainable success. Despite its author’s recent controversies, The Beauty Myth remains an important, thoughtful work of feminist theory. Since 2014, Wolf has championed many controversial political and scientific theories. After Wolf published The Beauty Myth, she had a career in politics, brainstorming ways to reach female voters for presidential candidates Bill Clinton and later, Al Gore, and later, Wolf returned to Oxford to finish her PhD in English literature in 2015. I wanted to write feminist theory, and I kept being told by the dons there was no such thing.” The project she was working on formed the basis of the book, The Beauty Myth.

Wolf later talked about that by saying: “My subject didn’t exist. Apparently a professor at Oxford assessed her writing as personal and subjective, and advised her against submitting her doctoral thesis. Her initial period at Oxford University was difficult for her as she experienced what she called “raw sexism, overt snobbery and casual antisemitism”. From 1985 to 1987, she was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford. She attended Yale University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1984. Naomi Wolf was born in 1962 in San Francisco, California, to a Jewish family.

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