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Robin Strongin, Disruptive Women in Health Care

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Robin Strongin is an accomplished public affairs expert with more than 25 years of experience working in Washington, DC. Her areas of specialization include health care, science, technology, and innovation. Robin has worked with and for federal and state governments, regulatory agencies, Congress, think tanks, nonprofit organizations, corporations, coalitions, and trade associations.

She founded Disruptive Women in Health Care in 2008 to serve as a platform for provocative ideas, thoughts, and solutions in the health sphere. “We recognize that to accomplish this, we need to call on experts outside of the health industry”, she asserts.

“The founding Disruptive Women have audacious hopes for our blog,” Strongin says. “We’re not managing change, we’re not waiting for cures. We’re driving change, we’re creating chaos, and we’re finding cures. In a nutshell: We’re disrupting the status quo in the health machine. “Our goal is to become the go-to health care blog—one that is recognized as a Petri dish for fresh ideas and bold solutions. Won’t you join us?”

She is also the president of Amplify Public Affairs, the next generation in public affairs, leading the way in integrating new media and traditional communications strategies. With unequalled expertise in aligning allies, connecting voices, and promoting action, Amplify serves as a relationship builder, creating and sustaining win-win collaborations to move issues forward and influence targeted audiences. Through the blending of innovative communication technologies, credible coalition-building, grassroots and top-tiered public affairs expertise, Amplify leverages connections to achieve targeted objectives in the public, private, and political arena.

Contact Robin by email, rstrongin@amplifypublicaffairs.net.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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– Avenida Margarita

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca