This time of year gives us the opportunity to gather together as friends and family to appreciate our blessings. We on The Women’s Conference team wanted to share with you what we’re thankful for this year. We hope you’ll share with us what you’re thankful for, too.
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I am so thankful I had the incredible opportunity to be First Lady of California – thankful I had the chance to work with such an amazing group of people and to have such amazing children. I am thankful for my family and friends. I’m thankful to be alive and living in the USA.
Maria Shriver
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I am thankful for the new love in my life, my dog, Noodle (even though she is eating one of my plants as I type this). I am beyond thankful to the shelter that rescued her from the pound and put up the cutest photo of her online, which I became obsessed with, and eventually led to her adoption.
Ande Dagan, Website Producer
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I am thankful for the good health of my family and friends, especially those who are battling cancer successfully as I write this. I am thankful for the physical strength that allowed me to survive another year of helping to produce the greatest Women’s Conference ever. I am thankful for the fortitude to make it through the toughest challenge I’ve had as a parent of a high school student —helping my son Ethan go through the nightmare of applying for colleges. And I am really thankful for the sense of humor that helps me think these aren’t just challenges to overcome, but moments in which I can still see something touching and funny.
Alexandra Gleysteen, Executive Producer
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I am thankful that as an escape from my desk job, I teach yoga on Sunday mornings at 8 a.m., affording my devoted students and myself a weekly experience in breath work and exultation.
Liberty B. Conboy, Senior Aide
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I’m thankful that there’s a holiday that asks us all to step away from the myriad challenges, frustrations and demands of our intensely busy lives to reflect on our long list of blessings. If only we could remember to make this a daily, not a yearly, ritual – to show gratitude for the people who turn our lives into a series of adventures.
Cherie Simon, Website Editor-in-Chief
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I’m thankful for the love of my life. I’m thankful for family and friends who make me a better person. I’m thankful for being able to work with a strong sense of purpose. And I’m thankful for living near ocean sunsets. It’s hard to take life for granted when you can witness the day die each day.
Matthew DiGirolamo, Marketing Director
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I am thankful for my children Dana, Seth and Adam. I am thankful for my health. I am thankful for my incredible six years of working with Maria Shriver and for being part of an extraordinary team of extraordinary people. I am thankful that I will soon meet my first grandchild.
Kathy Hersh, Director of Business & Legal Affairs
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I am thankful for the air I breathe, the food I eat, the family who loves me for who I am, and the wonderful friends I have made through Maria’s amazing organization. I am also thankful for whirlwind trips to Miami to raise money for Best Buddies.
Sean C. Molloy, Conference Assistant
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I am thankful for my health. After spending two weeks tied up – and useless – with the flu, I have a sense of just how powerful good health is. With it, you can do virtually anything; without it, I, anyway, am very, very hindered. Wishing good health (wealth and happiness – but mostly health) to all.
