Join us on January 12, 2019 for the first in a 3 part dinner series: “What Would Happen if One Woman Told The Truth About Her Life?” This question is based on the words from feminist poet Muriel Rukeyser’s poem Kathe Kollwitz.
Join us on January 12, 2019 for the first in a 3 part dinner series: “What Would Happen if One Woman Told The Truth About Her Life?” This question is based on the words from feminist poet Muriel Rukeyser’s poem Kathe Kollwitz.
Join us on January 12, 2019 for the first in a 3 part dinner series: “What Would Happen if One Woman Told The Truth About Her Life?” This question is based on the words from feminist poet Muriel Rukeyser’s poem Kathe Kollwitz.
Join us on January 12, 2019 for the first in a 3 part dinner series: “What Would Happen if One Woman Told The Truth About Her Life?” This question is based on the words from feminist poet Muriel Rukeyser’s poem Kathe Kollwitz.
When Changing Nothing, Changes Everything: The Power of Reframing Your Life
When Changing Nothing, Changes Everything: The Power of Reframing Your Life
Welcome to the kickoff of the Happy Women Novel Book Club!
We will be reading feel-good novels that can uplift our spirits as we quarantine at home.
Welcome to the kickoff of the Happy Women Novel Book Club!
We will be reading feel-good novels that can uplift our spirits as we quarantine at home.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open” - Muriel Rukeyser
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open” - Muriel Rukeyser
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open” - Muriel Rukeyser
Hello Future Female Friend (hopefully!),

If you are a happy woman, then you are going to make your corner of the world a happier place to be. That’s our goal at Happy Women Dinners: To help you be happier so the happiness spreads! We do that by giving inspirational and delicious events for groups of positive energy women with an author/expert who helps us be more empowered in our lives. We also give back to various non-profits with a percentage of proceeds from certain events.
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You may wonder how Happy Women Dinners started… It is the combination of my three previous careers… I was a freelance magazine journalist for 15 years, mostly interviewing celebrities and writing about travel and food. I loved having people over for dinner and cooking for friends. I might have done that career forever if I had not had my son. Recently divorced and pregnant from a whirlwind relationship, I was a single mom with no time to write my own stories. Well, I thought I can still pitch stories to my editor contacts in the magazine world about other people! So, I became a book publicist because I’ve always been a big reader. I loved working with authors…they are the most generous genre of people I know.
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Then, my mom died and my roller-coaster relationship with my son’s father was going south once again and I decided to spend my inheritance to try to save the relationship by going into business together. Don’t ever do that! It seemed like a good idea at the time…His background was in restaurant management and we were definitely both foodies.
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We started a dinner business that was organic family dinner delivered to double-income busy families all over Silicon Valley. It was the most stressful job ever due to my business partner and the demands of the job itself and after five years of doing it and a 25-pound weight gain (still working on losing that), I simultaneously shut that relationship with my son’s father down for good and closed the doors to the business.
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What now? I thought about what I loved and what I didn’t.
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During those five years of doing a dinner business, I had no time to socialize with my girlfriends and I missed them. I wanted more time hanging out with cool women. I wanted a meaningful and fun job where I could use my skills of interviewing, promoting authors and feeding people (but on many levels this time). Soul nourishment was what I was after. I slowly started to figure out that I could combine everything I ever did into one dream career.
HappyWomenDinners was born in June of 2017 in San Francisco and 4 of my close friends paid to show up at the first one.
If you have read this far, thank you for listening to my story. We all have one to tell and I hope I get to hear yours.​ If you have any questions, please email or call me. I’d love to hear from you! 🧡 Seriously I would just love to hear from you period. Tell me about you…a favorite book you have read…what kind of topics would you like to see at HappyWomenDinners...
I hope to get to know you. There are other women who come to these events who want to know you too! We are a very welcoming and warm crowd of women.
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If you want to see photos from events and learn more about happy women dinners and me personally, please follow me on Instagram @Jillconnection and look at IG for the #HappyWomenDinners.
I hope to see you in-person and/or at one of our virtual offerings!