Welcome

Hello! I'm Catherine Anaya, and I am a Super Woman.

It’s taken me a long time to admit and embrace that. But let's be honest, women - we’re master multitaskers, often carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. We juggle career and family, try to get involved in our community - maybe squeeze in some social time - and still find time to fuel our passion for various causes and charities that need our help.


We’re so used to doing it all that, if you’re like me, you'd often end up beating yourself up at the end of the day for missing something – rather than applauding the fact that you achieved a lot.


Three and a half years ago I started experiencing that overwhelming sense of stretching myself too thin. I brought it up during one of my motivational speeches and was comforted by a large number of women who told me afterward, they felt the same way!
So I started thinking: we’ve grown up hearing about Super Man – and not nearly enough about Super Woman. Super – not because we have extraordinary powers – but because we do super things that tend to fall under the radar because we’re either not conditioned to tooting our own horns – or we make it look so effortless, few people notice.


That’s when the idea came to me: why not pick one Sunday a month – where every super woman I know –and every super woman they know (and so on, and so on) could get together over lunch and spend two hours sharing our passions, celebrating our achievements, and inspiring and embracing each other for the super things we do? Then, take it a step further by tapping into our collective desire to give back to our community by picking a different charity each month to support through cash or in-kind donations.


Plus, we would pledge to only gather in locally-owned businesses or restaurants so we’re not only keeping part of the dollars we spend in the community, but we’re also recognizing and giving our business to local entrepreneurs.


That is how I came to found the Sisterhood of Super Women. If you go to our website you’ll see the nearly two dozen charities and causes we’ve supported with 60 thousand-plus pounds of donated goods and $6,000+ dollars in cash, or the more than two dozen different restaurants, caterers galleries and boutiques we’ve supported with our lunches and purchases.


Little did I know my small idea would turn into something so incredibly big! I know, because organizations like Childhelp tell us. 50 years ago, Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson founded Childhelp to protect children and families from child abuse. These two super women recently hosted one of our luncheons at their Valley headquarters and opened their hearts to us about their mission and how we could help. And boy did we come through! We raised and donated $1,000 that day to help these ladies continue with their child-saving efforts.


We are women from all walks of life; CEOs, writers, mothers, lawyers – you name it – with one common thread: a passion for women helping women succeed and celebrate our super selves.

Catherine