Bold New Girls is unique, comprehensive learning support including: teaching, coaching, consulting, and mentoring for girls in learning and personal development in Vancouver, BC. Bold New Girls infuses ...
Read more »Lindsay Sealey is an Educational and Personal Development Specialist who is the founder of Bold New Girls: she is an educator, a consultant, a coach, a speaker, and the author Growing Strong Girls, published ...
Read more »Beliefs: Young girls can feel happy, healthy, and confident and achieve success in school and in life; all girls have greatness inside of them and the power and potential to change. Growth and learning ...
Read more »Reshma Saujani, in her powerful and inspiring TED Talk, entitled, “teach girls bravery, not perfection” (Vancouver, March 7, 2016) talks about her own choice to be brave as she decided to make a difference by running for congress. She lost miserably and yet she declared that the experience was her […]
Stress for girls can come in many shapes and sizes. Stress can come from outside of them in the form of: family, friends, work, school, drama, trauma, and any change. And, stress can come from within them – depending on how they interpret stressful events and the tools they have […]
Spring is one of my favourite seasons – I love the change that comes with spring, I love the idea of newness and growth, and I have truly come to appreciate all of the hope that spring brings. I can’t help but connect this season of change and growth and […]
“I want every girl who’s told she’s bossy to be told instead that she has leadership skills.” These are the words of Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. I believe this to be true – bossy girls become leaders – and I am living proof. This quotation reminds me […]
Goodbye negativity; hello happiness and joy! I read a recent Instagram post by #workoutbean that said this: “remove the negativity in your life. It’s amazing how long we live with things that weigh us down – physically, emotionally, and mentally. Sometimes, cutting out the bad in our lives isn’t the […]
The push to be perfect is BIG in our society. We are taught we need to be beautiful, smart, social, active, fit, good at everything, and make it all look easy – as if we barely have to try. We see 300 digitally-altered, specially manipulated, made-to-be-perfect images every single day. […]
Reflection: It is HARD, if not almost impossible, for girls (and women) to feel good about their unique bodies and body types with the barrage of “perfectly polished” images we see each and every day. We can’t avoid these images, as they are ubiquitous: in magazines, on the Internet, in […]
Girls today seem to be searching for that one, magical, “perfect” best friend forever (BFF). They have an ideal vision of what this girl will be like and they expect to find one single person who will meet all of their needs all of the time (this is a tall […]
Raising Bold New Girls is my newest book and writing this book was a very “new” experience for me too! I have written several books, primarily focusing on equipping and empowering young girls. However, this year, I had so many memorable, authentic, and engaging conversations with parents, teachers, and […]
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” This quotation is by Eleanor Roosevelt and I love her sentiments because she encapsulates the essence of dreaming and how hopeful and beautiful dreams can be! I am a thinker and a dreamer and I am […]
