{"id":874629,"date":"2026-10-08T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874629\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:16:08","slug":"venus-williams-talks-resilience-at-ywcas-empowering-women-luncheon-in-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/874629\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams talks resilience at YWCA’s Empowering Women Luncheon in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Tennis legend Venus Williams headlined the YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County<\/a>‘s 20th annual Empowering Women Luncheon, held Wednesday at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center. <\/p>\n

“Serving Strength, Building Futures” was the theme of the luncheon, aiming to bring the “community together to honor resilience, invest in opportunity, and advance YWCA Rochester and Monroe County\u2019s programs and services, supporting women and families through crisis.”<\/p>\n

Williams, who won seven Grand Slam singles titles and \u2014 along with her sister Serena \u2014 ranks among the greatest tennis players of all time, also has several business ventures.<\/p>\n

“She’s a renaissance woman,” said Dawn Kellogg, co-chair of the luncheon. “She’s a sports champion, she’s a designer, she’s an entrepreneur, she’s an advocate, she has so many tools in her tool kit.”<\/p>\n

Williams, 46, said her playing career has taught her many valuable lessons that have helped her business career.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I’ve spent my life as an athlete,” Williams said. “And I think that lends itself very nicely to entrepreneurship because you have to have that same hustle, that same resilience, that same ability to bounce back, to reinvent yourself, to find ways to win when it seems like there is no way.”<\/p>\n

Money raised from Wednesday’s event will support the YWCA’s supportive housing and in-home community care services, along with its workforce development program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. \u2014 Tennis legend Venus Williams headlined the YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County‘s 20th annual Empowering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-874629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}