{"id":1271,"date":"2010-09-17T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2017-11-30T12:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:32:45","slug":"the-art-of-sistering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Sistering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1272\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1272\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1272\" title=\"Iyanla Vanzant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/youcantfail2010-ivanzant.jpg\" alt=\"Iyanla Vanzant \" width=\"655\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/youcantfail2010-ivanzant.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/youcantfail2010-ivanzant-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iyanla Vanzant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It started with a song;\u00a0then a prayer that led to\u00a0laughter, tears and hugs.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually author, teacher and motivational speaker Iyanla Vanzant told the female executives\u00a0of Syracuse that they should avoid the mistake of following masculine models of femininity.\u00a0 &#8220;Stop trying to be like men, it&#8217;s killing us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanzant encouraged participants at this year&#8217;s You Can&#8217;t Fail Conference, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel,\u00a0to make the condition of their soul the primary concern.<\/p>\n<p>She also stressed\u00a0connection, cooperation\u00a0and mastering\u00a0tools of effective communication to achieve success.<\/p>\n<p>Vanzant is founder of Inner Visions.<\/p>\n<p>You Can&#8217;t Fail was founded by leadership executive Gwen Webber-McLeod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with a song;\u00a0then a prayer that led to\u00a0laughter, tears and hugs. Eventually author, teacher and motivational speaker Iyanla Vanzant told the female executives\u00a0of Syracuse that they should avoid the mistake of following masculine models of femininity.\u00a0 &#8220;Stop trying to be like men, it&#8217;s killing us.&#8221; Vanzant encouraged participants at this year&#8217;s You Can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[752,5006,1195,1198,1199,1200,1197,1194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22946,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/22946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}