HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — During the entire month of March I had the privilege of celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting five women editors based right here in the Rocket City. We learn a small portion of the journey each of these women have embarked on to get to where they are today as mothers, wives, entrepreneurs and more.
Erin Elise Enyinda with Live Affirmed Magazine explained that women are typically faced with a variety of challenges. "What we should be doing. Or, there's another thing added to our list of things to do or be for someone else. So there's lots of stressors. And I think that celebrating who we are and and just how we are as a person is very important because we contribute so much. But sometimes there's that never ending rat race feeling."
Dawn Pumpelly with The Scout Guide said sometimes women need to know that what they're doing is pretty life changing. "I think, for the people around us, for the community. And yeah, I'm all about celebrating women entrepreneurs." Huntsville City Magazine Lifestyle Editor Amy Bailey breaks down that her journey all started with her love for magazines. "I had always been interested in magazines and in college. I was a features editor of my college newspaper and then moved to New York to work in publishing for US Weekly. And I just I loved magazines, everything about magazines. I loved writing. I loved the business side of it as well. And so it was something that was always very attractive to me. And then when I began my own entrepreneurial endeavor before my escape, which was an online magazine with the way the world was going, that made sense. But something I noticed during the pandemic was this reemergence of print, these beautiful publications that were popping up. And to me that symbolized that there was this reemergence. People wanted the tangible as as wonderful as the screen is, it's also very nice to be able to hold something and feel it. And of course, the implications, too, of representing media or representing women in the media and how can we tell those stories, which is so important."
Furthermore, one common theme throughout this series was the fact that women are powerful and better together . Takara Swoopes with Huntsville Magazine further addresses the importance of women uniting as one. "I have one thing and it's very important. I think when you get a bunch of women business owners in a particular industry, I think that there is an underlying vibe that maybe they don't all get along. You want there to be some tension. There is no tension. I want every woman on this panel to win. I want their publications to succeed."
Carolyn Stephenson with Huntsville Business Journal also leaves one final message. "Life is hard enough." In honor of Women's History Month these women explain that women are better together and there it is powerful when women come together and unite as one.