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Advice from The Athena Network for businesswomen attending events
Online meetings are continuing
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WE find that new year is a time when we start to see a lot of people try networking for the first time, writes The Athena Network. It can be frightening to start networking, particularly in this Covid-19 world where most meetings have gone online, but, done well, it’s a great way to generate business if you are a business owner or a company employee.
At The Athena Network, we know that many people are not natural networkers and so we work hard to provide a supportive environment for women to network. While we can’t meet in person over lunch, we have created online meetings which remain faithful to our ethos of support, referrals and training.
Teen battling multiple cancers receives Christmas surprise
“She is a fighter,” Holly Wagner said. “She is very positive.”
Superheroes do live among us.
“You’d never know what she’s going through,” Wagner said.
Lexi McAlonan is one of them. The 14-year-old has spent the past four years fighting for her life, beating Stage 4 B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma before relapsing and trying immunotherapy that put her into remission but, her mother Janine says left Lexi legally blind.
Even still…
But then, cancer was spotted again, this time in her bone marrow.
After 40 straight days at CHOP, Lexi asked for one thing to be home for Christmas.