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Operation Reinvent
Join Julie Lewitt Nirenberg, Founder and Host of Operation Reinvent.
OPERATION REINVENT ‘embraces’ women veterans from the time they leave military service, until they have successfully reinvented their lives and transitioned to a new normal.
OPERATION REINVENT advocates for women veterans. For women. By women. OPERATION REINVENT is the only full service program exclusively dedicated to women veterans.
The butterfly in our logo represents the spirit and imagination—the metamorphosis—that a woman veteran goes through as she reinvents herself and spreads her wings to take flight in her civilian life.
OPERATION REINVENT
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2013, 10:00 AM
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Still Young & Female - But No Longer In the Military
Feeling Connected Before You Return Home
Reinventing Life As A Disabled Female Vet
Project Makeover: Beauty
Join a variety of amazing military women and beauty industry specialist as we help you transition as a women in the military into a stylish, professional look that is easily maintained and builds confidence.
Advice includes a salon visit with a professional stylist – cut and color, style and blow dry. First, there is a consultation as informed by the salon style guide. The visit includes instruction on hair maintenance and consultation on hair care.
Tips and resources to help you with your beauty transformation includes a makeup artist that may be an in-salon consultant or a community based consultant. Our makeup artist works his/her alchemy.
Our guest will help YOU address makeover needs that include: skin care consultation, customized foundation, complete eye makeup, lip consultation, blush, brows, and total illumination and highlights. Our women veterans’ beauty tool kit includes her makeover products in addition to other day and evening looks. There are accompanying instructions on beauty maintenance. The makeup artist gives each client a “get the look” program. Salon products manufacturers supply many of the products to the veterans at no cost.
Salon owners are dedicated to the cause and want to do their part to help women veterans look their best and gain the confidence to get on the right path. To date, they have jumped at the chance to have the privilege of embracing this cause. It’s a virtuous circle: we and they receive extensive media coverage and recognition from the local community for their ongoing role and support.
Between Us Gals - Stay Connected - Connection
Our special segment includes BetweenUsGals.net website does triple duty:
• As a social networking venue where women veterans, military servicewomen and women of military families can connect, share their experiences and support each other. And maybe have a good laugh or two.
• As a ‘curated’ online manual to help women veterans navigate the myriad programs and resources available to them regarding their health and health benefits, educational opportunities and job listings at the most women-veteran-friendly companies. In addition, the site will have a compendium of proven interviewing techniques and guidelines on constructing professional resumes that translate military skills and accomplishments into easily understandable civilian qualifications. Because the right resumes produce results.
• As an online learning center with regularly scheduled webinars given by acknowledged experts on professional growth — how to achieve and maintain a professional look and profile; on ‘workplace literacy’ — how to acclimate to a business culture and succeed in the workplace; on lifestyle — childcare issues, nutrition, exercise, stress management and how to manage your reputation cloud.
Operation Reinvent
A unique feature of OPERATION Reinvent is the woman-to-woman connection: An advocate, a ‘peer mentor’ to talk with who is part guide, part resource guru, part sounding board, part coach—a kindred spirit, the woman you trust to give you information, to have your back and inspire confidence as you transition to civilian life.
She empathizes because she too, is a veteran professionally trained to navigate the programs and pathways available to returning veterans. She speaks your language because she’s been there and she knows what you’re going through. She knows the ropes.
But more than that, she is trained to guide you through that first year on the job. To teach you ‘Workplace Literacy’ — the culture, the language and the currency of business. She can explain the differences between what it takes to succeed in business vs. what it took to succeed in the military. The politics of the workplace vs. the meritocracy in the service.
She calls you every two weeks to see what you need. She is someone who keeps it real and encourages progress.
“The camaraderie is not the same (in civilian life) and people really don’t understand that.” Woman Veteran
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