Bold New Girls Academy

The Bold New Girls Academy will be launching September, 2024!

The Bold New Girls Academy, established in 2024, is an online platform created for Girl Champions and anyone who is wanting to learn how to grow strong and healthy girls. The Academy is filled with the ideas, tools and techniques, inspiration, and encouragement you need as you support growing girls. Whether you are a parent or grandparent, teacher or coach, counsellor, or mentor, you play an important roll in a girl’s life!

Each mini-course in the Bold New Girls Academy is curated to fit your busy schedule. This means, courses are quick, to the point, and include the essential key takeaway tools you will need.

Mini-courses include:

A powerpoint with video talk through
Colourful handout(s) of key points and tools to try
Conversation starters, stories, examples and specific strategies to put into practice

Mini-courses offered:

Cultivating Connection
Boosting Confidence
Boundaries and Borders
Building Bravery
Body Breakthrough
A Girl’s Worth
Stressed Out
Mental Health Matters
Social Media Madness
Stronger Together
True Beauty
Perfectly Imperfect

You will learn how to:

Understand her and her world
Be curious over critical
Communicate in healthy ways
Repair relational ruptures
Help her through her stress and anxiety
Teach her to reframe and shift her thinking
Support her in the ways she needs
Prepare her with life skills

I can’t wait to share with you all the tools, tricks, and tips you need to help growing girls become strong, happy, healthy, confident, bold, brave, and balanced.

When I was a little girl, I used to play school. I mean play! After school, I’d often ask my teachers for spare handouts. I’d run home from a day of learning, grab a quick snack like a granola bar or cereal, and then roll up my sleeves and get to work. I had set up my classroom in the basement with a teacher’s desk, student desks, a chalkboard, a filing cabinet, and books. I even wore my mom’s heels so I too could make the “clickity-clack” of my teachers made while walking up and down the rows of desks. In short, I loved learning, I loved every part of school, and I loved teaching.

As I grow, I continued to pursue education, earning my Bachelor’s degree at university and then going on to earn my Master’s degree in educational leadership. I found myself drawn to a private learning center because I enjoyed working side by side with one student at a time. Then, when I outgrew that job and felt it was time to create my dream job, I designed Bold New Girls. Here, I merged my two loves of learning and personal growth so I could empower girls with both school skills and life skills. I experienced how much girls want to share their stories, unburden their stressors, and connect with someone who could see, hear, value, and validate all their experiences.

Like many of you, I have concerns when I speak with girls. These include:

Stress, anxiety, and overwhelm
Caring too much what others think about them
Lack of confidence and bravery
Holding back and hesitating
Obsession with appearance
Too much time scrolling and “connecting” on social media
Too little time connecting in the world
Too busy and too many to do’s
A lot of worry
Disconnection with themselves, others, the world
Loneliness
Apathy
Pushing for perfection

As their choices increase so do their challenges. Girls are taught by societal messages they can by “ANYTHING”. They hear they must be “EVERYTHING”. As a result, girls seem to become perfectionists or procrastinators. Both options can make them feel not good enough.

We want girls to know their worth, to show up as their truest and most authentic selves, to speak up and use their voice, to show their confidence and shine without worrying what otters think about them, to stand in their uniqueness and power, and to become strong, confident, bold, brave, happy, and healthy.

How do we encouraging, support, and champion girls to become strong?

One step and one strategy at a time!

That is why I designed the Bold New Girls Academy. I want to provide you with the insights into a girl’s world and the ideas to help you navigate her world with her (not for her).

This has its challenges, especially when girls are pushing us away, distracted by their screens and social media, busy with friends and finding their people, involved in activities and a long list of to-do’s, and feeling like they don’t need us. Yet, I believe that what girls need most is connection with us and the positive attention, understanding, love, help, encouragement, and championing we can offer them.

We want our girls to feel good and be healthy, to have tools, to take chances and become brave, and to grow strong!

Welcome to the Bold New Girls Academy!

The Global Girls Alliances says this…

“The future of our world is only as bright as our girls!”

When girls get the opportunity they deserve, amazing things start to happen…

Poverty goes down
Economies grow
Families heal and grow stronger
Babies are born healthier
The world becomes better

When we change girls, we change the world!

I know it’s a tough job and I know you are so busy – isn’t there always just so much to do? Yet, you are doing it – one step at a time. The Bold New Girls Academy has been designed to offer you easy, accessible, and quick tools and tips to help her. Each section will provide you with the necessary information and research, a better understanding of the topic, the challenges, and obstacles you may face, and the ways you can get started.

I know you need insights, ideas, and inspiration. Let’s get started!

The Bold New Girls Academy explores: