by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | MLoop
SPACE TO BREATHE
BY SIMONE HARRINGTON
Winning WXN’s Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 created a natural pause for me.
A moment to reflect on what brought me here. The people who supported me along the way. And how I might pay that forward in supporting others as they pursue their own ambitions.
In that reflection, I found myself drawn to something familiar.
Nature.
Not because I consider myself particularly outdoorsy. I don’t. I would choose a warm, comfortable cabin over a tent every time. But there is something about being outside, walking through the woods, along the water, moving without urgency, that brings a kind of stillness I don’t find anywhere else.
It’s where my thinking clears.
Where I can hear myself.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | BB_Mag
The Art of Becoming Iconic
BY JACKELYN GILL
It’s one thing to snap a photograph as evocative as The Path. A lone figure silhouetted as he walks down an empty country road, head bowed and wind whipping his long hair and coat to one side. Leafless trees peek from behind a curtain of mist. The image is striking, lonely, somewhere between sadness and quietness.
It’s another thing entirely for that image to make it into the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, chosen from a pool of 60,000 submissions by the world’s top photographers for the Salon des Beaux Arts.
So, imagine the surprise of Patricia Gagic, a world-renowned abstract painter and contemporary artist, when she was named the gold medal winner in 2018. “I was the first Canadian woman to receive the honour since the inception of the photography category,” she says.
And it didn’t stop there.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | Mandich, MLoop
The Happiness Paradox: When Success Still Feels Empty
BY DR. GILLIAN MANDICH
You did everything that was supposed to make you happy.
You worked hard. You achieved goals. You built a career. You kept going when it was hard. From the outside, your life may even look like the kind of life people aspire to.
So why does it sometimes feel … strangely flat?
Why, after everything you’ve accomplished, do you find yourself wondering, Is this it? Or worse: What is wrong with me?
If you’ve ever had that thought, the problem is not you. The problem is the story you were told about happiness.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | MLoop
The Space I Needed Didn’t Exist. So I Built It.
By TRACY BARRY
When I think about my journey, I don’t think about titles or milestones. I think about moments of uncertainty. Arriving in Canada was one of them.
I remember the feeling of starting over in a new environment. Learning how systems worked. Observing expectations that were never clearly explained. Trying to understand how opportunity was accessed and how credibility was established.
It wasn’t just about finding work. It was about finding direction.
What I Couldn’t Find
What stood out to me most during that time wasn’t just the challenge. It was the gap.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | MLoop
Beyond the Bumpenya:
The Real Work of Being Princess Sarah Culberson
By Jackelyn Gill
It was a childhood proverb in her adopted West Virginia family: “If part of our world is off balance, Sarah, it affects all of us.”
And things around Princess Sarah Culberson were off-balance in the Bumpe Chiefdom of Sierra Leone.
At 28, she learned she was the Mahaloi through her biological lineage. The granddaughter of the Paramount Chief. The Bumpenya, Lady of Bumpe.
A long night of joyful celebration followed her arrival in the village. It was “mind-boggling and overwhelming and shocking and beautiful.” And then her birth father, Joseph Konia Kposowa, Chief of the Mende Tribe, showed her the rest.
