You've Had the Power All Along, My Dear - Episode 3
What is it to be a Powerful Woman Today?
Release Date: 08/08/2018
What is it to be a Powerful Woman Today?
In this episode we examine one of the most critical issues: the necessity of (and struggles we face as women) supporting and championing each other.
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Historically women in the workplace learned “adaptive leadership” to imitate what was being modeled in order to succeed. But sucking it up and armoring up is not a sustainable strategy. Women’s spontaneity and vulnerability can be the secret sauce to their authentic leadership and loyal following. In this podcast we explore how even with the “1,000 paper cuts a day” women can increase their sense of confidence and professional self-worth.
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This podcast (title taken from a poem by David Whyte) explores the back story of how women came to be excluded from the power structure in the first place. What bargains did we make that involved us giving up our power? What can we discover by uncovering the roots of our predicament?
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Women are rising, speaking out, and demanding change. But how do we deal with our anger and perhaps even our desire to blame in order to move forward and create a new definition of power based on feminine principles of collaboration and kinship?
info_outlineIn this episode, You’ve Had the Power All Along, My Dear, we will look at how women in the workplace have learned to armor up and why that isn’t a long-term success strategy.
We will see how our vulnerability is key to becoming authentic leaders. And we will learn ways to build our resilience and confidence while confronting what my clients call the “1,000 paper cuts a day” that erode our sense of professional self-worth.
The truth is that power is not reactive, not acquired, not something you earn or accumulate, and it doesn’t look like anyone else’s. That means you are going to have to define it and claim it for yourself.
The inspirational speaker Iyanla Vanzant reminds us: Power is your birthright…and the only thing that can diminish your power is the belief that you do not have it.
Statistics show that while women have made headway, we still have a long way to go. A staggering 41% of women in tech drop out because the system as it is structured doesn’t reward them, recognize them, or make the space for a more feminine, relational style of leadership.
It’s clearly time for a change.