Parlay House Events

There are many privileges beyond skin color – access to resources, wealth, geography, age, religion, attractiveness, body type, and more. Sometimes we openly accept certain privileges to cope with more hurtful ones as a way to protect ourselves from pain…

Let’s talk about Divorce – and more specifically, how to manage our finances before, during, and after this difficult life transition. We’re welcoming financial superstar and two-time Parlay House speaker, Laurie Fried of Lumina Financial back to our safe space…

Growing up in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, Shabana Basij-Rasikh and her family risked their lives to send her and her sister to underground schools. At that time, educating women was a crime punishable by death. Shabana not only became college-educated…

Want to make a difference in the world but don’t know how to start? While all transformation happens by taking a small step, very few people have walked the miles and impacted lives as deeply and broadly as civil rights…

Being a strong, successful Black woman and working mother means you broke through a lot of barriers to get to where you are. Doing it in the deep south where gender roles and racial barriers are still ever-present requires a…

“Mom, everyone thinks I’m a girl and I’m not. I’m a boy. I don’t feel like a boy, I am a boy, mama.” These are the words Jodie Patterson’s two-year-old child spoke to her one day following a streak of…

For most of us, there is often a disconnection between how we look and how we feel. Being “thin” is admired, and considered the definition of health and beauty. It’s proof that we have our lives, our food, and our exercise under…

This event is presented in partnership with The Battery: IN-Q, an award-winning poet who was named to Oprah’s list of the 100 most influential thought leaders, will lead us through a poetry-storytelling workshop that will bring us peace, inspiration, and deeper…

We live in a world full of judgment, discord and anger. Relationships are strained, lines are drawn and the issues that divide us seem to be more heated than ever. The only way to reverse this trend and find common…