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She Leads International & Lakes Printing: An Empowering Partnership
She Leads International is a collective of women united by a shared mission: to inspire, uplift, and empower women in every aspect of their lives. Whether you’re joining a conference, embarking on a 12-month mastermind journey, or adventuring to Italy with us, we will always celebrate each other’s wins, uplift each other’s businesses, and share in each other’s journeys.
In this spirit of unity, empowerment and shared experience, we bring you a featured blog from She Leads-Brainerd Community Sponsor, Lakes Printing.
Owner Kevin Thesing said the business co-owner, Dode Pohlkamp, was “the inspiration to get the business started.” He gives Pohlkamp credit for the printing company’s success, saying “female management is what has made us successful.”

Challenges, Harmony and Living in the “Great World House” Together
“We have inherited a big house, a great “world house” in which we have to live together – black and white, Easterners and Westerners…”

First Female Lieutenant Gov of MN Joins She Leads Speaker Roster
We are pleased to announce that Marlene M. Johnson, the first woman lieutenant governor of Minnesota, will be one of our closing panelists at 2025 She Leads - Brainerd.
In 1983, Marlene became the first woman…