Fortune Most Powerful Women

Fortune is excited to welcome Lizzo, 4x Grammy Award- and Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, to the #FortuneMPW conference in Laguna Niguel on Oct. 14–16. Lizzo will join us for her first live interview of 2024. She’ll discuss her music career, the future of her popular shapewear brand, YITTY, and why she decided to take a gap year. Learn more and see our full list of speakers here 👉  bit.ly/4aljnur

Lifestyle changes to diet, sleep, and exercise—paired with interventions like relaxation exercises and supplements—could reverse the aging process, according to recent research. Six women between the ages of 46 and 65 underwent an eight-week program that included alterations to diet, sleep, and exercise. They were also given relaxation guidance, women’s probiotic and phytonutrient supplements, and nutritional coaching. Blood tests showed a reduction in biological age of up to 11 years in five of the six women, with the average participant experiencing a 4.6-year decrease, according to the study, published last year in the journal Aging. Read more: bit.ly/4ezFakz

"You can still find reservations at the hottest, hardest-to-get restaurants if you are flexible with timing." bit.ly/3Zu9xox Restaurant reservation culture is out of control. There are black markets and bots, with diners shelling out hundreds of dollars just to secure tables, especially in cities like New York. New York lawmakers even passed legislation to curb the phenomenon. But Debby Soo, the CEO of OpenTable, says some of that is a myth. “You can still find reservations at the hottest, hardest-to-get restaurants if you are flexible with timing,” Soo says. "This narrative out there that it’s so hard—sometimes I don’t think it necessarily serves restaurants because I don’t want to discourage diners from trying.” Read more here: bit.ly/3Zu9xox

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that employees would be mandated to return to the office five days a week. It didn’t go over well. Employees pointed out that this mandate is harsher than prior to the pandemic. “Please do note that this is (in a lot of cases) significantly more strict and out of its mind than many teams operated under pre-COVID,” one Amazon employee wrote in an internal Slack channel, per a Business Insider report. Return-to-office or “RTO” mandates are near-uniformly unpopular with employees. But the nitty-gritty of RTO mandates are particularly fraught for women—mothers in particular, who most often bear the brunt of caregiving and household upkeep. Read more from Fortune Most Powerful Women: https://lnkd.in/eZUDbhs8

"We're not moving fast enough." bit.ly/47C9JUs Thasunda Brown Duckett Duckett, CEO of TIAA, wants to set one thing straight. “Diversity is not a business case. It is who we are and it is what we’re going to get done,” she said at the 2017 Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C. Ann-Marie Campbell, the executive vice president of U.S. stores for Home Depot and Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments joined Duckett in a discussion with Fortune senior editor Ellen McGirt about the barriers facing black women in corporate America. Read more here: bit.ly/47C9JUs

"I want children to see men and women as equals on our teams, and we've always been ahead." During an interview at the 2017 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, former tennis player and legend Billie Jean King said that CEOs need to "step up" for women's equality. "We need to be together in this; we're all in this," King said. 51 years ago today, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean played in the Battle of the Sexes inside the Houston Astrodome, with a global audience of 90M. "This was much more than a tennis match. It was about equality, and it was a catalyst for social change," Jean King wrote on her Instagram. bit.ly/4aljnur

Do CEO trends make you roll your eyes? bit.ly/3BlhPEY You’re in good company, if so. One of the most powerful figures in philanthropy, Melinda French Gates, recently cut through the noise in an interview with Vanity Fair.Dismissing the supposed valor of executives who fill sleepless nights with work, French Gates calls the phenomenon “so dumb.” In shrugging off the CEO all-nighter, French Gates is also railing against the larger machismo and puritan ethos that praises at least pretending to work oneself to the bone. Read more here: bit.ly/3BlhPEY

As online shopping booms, so too has the problem of merchandise returns that end up in landfills or get sold in bulk for pennies on the dollar. bit.ly/4e8Av9H It’s a market failure that’s presented opportunity for some entrepreneurs. Among them: Emily Hosie, the founder and CEO of Rebelstork, a Toronto-based startup that seeks to help the environment and consumer brands, while building a meaningful business of its own in the process. The four-year-old company, which works with retailers like Target and brands like BabyBjörn, has raised $18 million to expand its operations from backers including the investments funds of Serena Williams and Jay-Z. Read more here: bit.ly/4e8Av9H

Money is power and power is freedom. Building wealth is SO important, especially for us women so we can call the shots. When to leave. When to stay. When to say I need more support. When to double down and go alllll in on yourself. Here's my full interview with Fortune were I talk about: 🎯 Early days of my business barely hanging on by my fingernails where anything could send my business over the edge....it was a flatline and I was always trying to pinch a penny (if you're just starting out this is for YOU) 🎯 The 1 negotiation that got me on the path to financial freedom 🎯 My top tips for negotiating (which you can use NOW to make more money) BONUS: Funny outake at the end if you can make it through 10 mins (trust me this one is worth it) Let me know which tip you're going to use and let's go get that moolah 💰! #money #moneytips #negotiations

#FortuneMPW is excited to welcome Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to our conference on Oct. 14–16. See our full list of speakers here 👉 bit.ly/3WudDK3