Standing in Her Purpose to Lift and Empower Women

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What's working on purpose anyway? Each
week we ponder the answer to this question.

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People ache for meaning and purpose at
work to contribute their talents passionately and

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know their lives really matter. They
crave being part of an organization that inspires

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them and helps them grow into realizing
their highest potential. Business can be such

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a force for good in the world, elevating humanity. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration to help
usher in this world we all want Working

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on purpose. Now. Here is
your host, doctor Elise Cortes. Welcome

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back to Working in Purpose program.
Thanks for tuning it again this week.

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I'm your host, doctor Elie Cortes, joining you live from Dallas, which

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is home base for me. If
you don't know me yet, I'm a

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management consultant specializing meaning and purpose,
organizational logotherapist, inspirational speaker, social scientists,

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and author. I help organizations develop
their team and inspirational leaders and create

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cultures where people actually want to come
to work and do their best. I

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provide programs like Grab Your Gusto that
enable individual team members to discover and unleash

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their passion and purpose at work to
catalyze fulfillment engagement and productivity across the entire

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organization. You can learn more about
me and how we can work together at

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at leastcoretest dot com and gustdashnow dot
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With us today is Natalie Benemu,
the CEO of her Power to Lead.

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Her company's premier product is her c
Suite membership, a game changer for the

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way women accelerate results to get business
done. She is also the host of

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her c Suite Radio, a podcast
for women leaders on the move, be

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talking about how she started this venture
in the pandemic and what she has learned

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women need to ascend in their careers. She joined today from Eligent, Illinois,

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Natalie, Welcome to Working on Purpose. I'm so excited to be here.

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Thank you so much. All right, is this just great gobs of

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fun? It should be like this, right, just like this? Yes,

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well, I'm happy to share you
with our listeners across the world,

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of course, half of which are
women. And so to get right into

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this content, let's just go straight
for the jugular, shall we. Let's

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start by talking about how women are
feeling in today's climate. You talk about

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some stats that you got from Deloitte
that I think really pained, kind of

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a grim picture. Can you share
them with us? Yes, well,

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you know it's interesting. I think
everyone can relate to this. And I

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was asked today, well, how
did men do with this? So for

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the men listening, let's hear from
you. But what I have found with

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the Deloitte survey that you mentioned,
they tested five thousand women, They asked

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five thousand women, and the stats
are telling of how being siloed has impacted

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women. So the stats that you're
referring to is fifty one percent feel less

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optimistic about their career, fifty seven
percent are planning on leaving their jobs within

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the let within the next two years, and the most I think what you're

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saying is the troubling one is seventy
seven percent of women feel overwhelmed. And

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I think if we talk to anyone
in our circle of any kind of whether

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it's community, whether it's people we
work with, whatever, I think that's

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universal. Women are feeling overwhelmed and
aren't sure where to go to for help.

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So let's unpock this a little bit
here. We can you sort of

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wig in what we've learned about this, what's contributing to these factors these stats.

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Well, I think obviously the pandemic
and the stress that women are experiencing

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even if you're whether you're married and
you're a mom, or whether you're taking

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care of your parents, whatever it
might be, there's this added factor in

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our life. In the last year
and a half. In addition to there's

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no separation. People aren't getting in
their cars and driving someplace. Even though

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we would complain in Chicago like,
oh, I've got this commute, you

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kind of missed the commute, right, I mean, because it gave you

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this downtime, whether you're getting on
the phone with the girlfriend or listening to

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radio like this. Either way,
we're not all commuting anymore. I know

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many companies are returning back to the
office. It depends on the company whether

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they're returning back or not. But
either way, the remote work, it's

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hard to separate and so pile on
even more demands, even more opportunities that

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they're being told are opportunities, but
really is just more work. So some

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of the things that I I've learned
by continually talking to the other subject matter

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experts and business leaders and then of
course reading is that if you haven't heard

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about the Great Resignation, it's alive
and well. And for those of you

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listeners and viewers who don't know what
we're talking about, that's a stat that

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there was actually predicted that at least
half through the workforce would want to leave

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their jobs right about now. So
we're seeing a prediction of anywhere from thirty

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five to over fifty percent of people
in at least North America plan to change

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their jobs sometimes this year in twenty
twenty one because of this pent up feeling

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of not being able to grow and
not being connected anymore to the organization and

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many other factors. So really just
an awful lot of stuff going on to

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treat it sounds like to me it
is. And also, you know,

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two point two million women left the
workforce, just left last year. That

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is a staggering number of people when
we represented and I say past tense because

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now we're not fifty one percent of
two point two million of us left.

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But that, on top of the
great resignation, is a sign that people

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are reevaluating and wanting to live their
purpose, which is what you're about.

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But thinking about work life balance and
what matters. I hear from people in

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my community of you know what used
to matter, like driven to get to

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that c suite or driven to get
to that next level. They're sort of

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like, you know what, life
is really short, and don't I don't

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care about it anymore as much as
I used to. I think also concerning

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because people on the track to lead
organizations are now even backing away and saying,

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you know what, this just isn't
worth it to me, The sacrifice

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I'm making to my health, to
my mental well being, or to my

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family or you know, relations,
isn't worth it. Extremely important points that

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you're making, Natalie, And let's
go a little bit further here. I

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forget where I read where I read
this, or where I saw this,

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but you start thinking about how many
women actually chose to leave the workforce or

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just felt like they didn't have a
choice but to leave the workforce. How

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that's setting back their incomes, their
retirement, and even their career trajectory.

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So there's some real ramifications to whether
they chose it because they wanted a more

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fully inclusive work life harmony, or
whether they're just in playing they have a

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choice. That's just a lot of
backstepping for women in terms of money and

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career. It is, and I
want to give a shout out to a

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new friend of mine, Jenny Galuzzo
at the Second Shift. The second Shift

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was started seven years ago, but
they really have exponentially grown. And the

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second Shift is for women exactly in
this place where they felt no choice.

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They have their children at home and
they have to homeschool or whatever that looked

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like, or a sick family member. But they're very qualified. They're educated

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women in the workforce that have been
there for a while, and the second

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Shift offers women a great resource both
for companies who need to hire because they

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are losing people and for people that
are looking for that flexibility. So shout

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out to Jenny today. Awesome way
to go Jenny, talk to them,

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but becoming on my show too,
who knows. Yeah. I love talking

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to people that are up to something
that can advance the conversation that we've already

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had the last six and a half
years of being on air about how to

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create cultures people can actually meaningfully engage
in their work, give their best talents

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and skills, and that they're inspired
and that they're part of oroization that betters

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the world. That is, that's
what we're up to on working at a

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purpose radio. So anybody who can
advance that conversation, they'd love to talk

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to you. Great, I will
do that. I will give you an

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intro for sure. Oay, good, okay, good. Now as we

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go on here, ladies and gentlemen, let's next, let me talk to

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you men. You know that this
show serves both men and women. Today

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we're talking about women, and there
are many other times we've had different shows

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just talking about men. But I
do want to distinguish, you know,

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what's really going on for women,
because every organ every group of people often

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needs their own touch, They need
their own sort of way to be cared

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for, and which is what you're
up to to be able to help women.

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So I want to next talk about
why women in leadership are important to

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organizations. What do women bring that
are important? You know the stats that

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I'm so glad that Warren Buffett champions
and he's the thirty eight which is kind

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of in a way saying because thirty
eight percent is what he was going for,

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which would be thirty eight percent of
women in leadership. But Warren Buffett

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has said, and you know,
here's here's a billionaire who's very successful an

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investment has said the companies that he
now only invests in companies that have women

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in the c suite because financially they
do better. So while that's true,

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we still have this statistic that forty
one percent of this of the fortune five

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hundred are women CEOs. So there's
a little bit of a are a big

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disconnect for that that those numbers and
what does that do to the bottom line?

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And so then you kind of come
full circle to what's happening with the

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exodus of people in the workplace,
with women leaving work feeling like there's not

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an opportunity. But women do bring
economic prosperity to a company, So that

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I think is an undisputed fact.
But also the way that they get there

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is different. So a man will
look at a job opportunity, and I'm

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friends with men, so don't take
this the wrong way. Mentinction on how

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we approach things because our brains are
wired, as you know, you know,

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our brains go one way and men's
brains go a different way. But

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men will look at a job description. There's ten things, and they see

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one and they're like, I got
this. Women look at the same list

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and maybe they have eight out of
ten and they're like, well, I

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guess I got a roll at my
sleeves perfect, those other two raise my

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hand, and then I will apply
for that opportunity. Now you flip that

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to what happened behind the scenes,
and this is why sponsors are so important,

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So you talk about women in the
workforce and what do they bring.

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Men are very important to women advancing
and a sponsor especially. One of my

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favorite stories is Mike Kaufman, who's
a CEO at Cardinal Health. He's a

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big proponent for women and advancing women, and one day he just walked into

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a conversation what's VPS And they were
evaluating an opportunity for a woman, and

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the room was like, you know, what she's got young children, she's

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not going to want to travel.
I don't think we should offer this to

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her already making the decision. And
he said, well, have you asked

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her if she wants the job?
Right? No, we haven't asked her.

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Just now that they did ask her, and she did take the job

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because she worked it out with her
husband and family and how to care for

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her children. Imagine what would happen
or what would have happened if he wasn't

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in that room. Well, that
happens all the time. We're trying to

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get to leadership, and there's these
conversations of assumptions that women don't want to

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advance or they're stuck in the middle. And they're stuck in the middle because

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people are making assumptions about their choices
without even asking them. So I encourage

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the men in the audience ask women, would you be interested? Now?

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Some women aren't interested, That's okay. The lattice goes left and right and

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up and down. So but it's
important to have those conversations and to ask

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if you're interested in it, yeah, and not assume, because it's kind

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of a paternalistic thing to do like
you think you're doing this person a favor

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by helping them out and not putting
too much on them. And it's just

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to the opposite, you're stopping their
career. And so let's do two things

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really quick to what you just said, Natalie. So on the other side

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of that woman who sees that she's
got eight of the ten requirements, so

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she should well receive and work on
those things. The other side of that

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then, is that a lot of
times there's sort of a you know,

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a diligence that women bring because of
just the way that they've navigated the career

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workspace that can be incredibly useful inside
organizations. Right. So that's the first

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thing. How that translates to some
of the work that I do in the

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nonprofit space. I'm on the board
of an organization called Nama State Direct and

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they're an organization that serves guatemal and
business women with micro loans and business education

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to take them from poverty to at
least the middle class. And they only

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invest in women. And the reason
they do that is because women. This

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is true of many other organizations,
not just this organization, but many nonprofits

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will only invest in women because they
are responsible in terms of how they repay

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the loans they take and plow the
money and the resources back into the community.

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And it's a way to lift a
community faster than it is just straight

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through investing in men. Men use
those kind of resources differently. So there's

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some real, real dynamite power in
women that I want to make sure that

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we showcase here. Absolutely, women
are well. I'm biased because I have

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a company called Her Power Too,
which is inspired about gaining power and her

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c Suite, which is also about
surrounding ourselves and creating our own C suite.

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So I'm a little biased you are, and rightly so because it allowed

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you. We're going to talk more
as we go alonger about what you're doing

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in those but before we get into
that, let's also talk quickly about the

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difference between the path to leadership from
men and women. How do they each

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kind of how would you distinguish those
paths? Well, I think you know,

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as I mentioned earlier, you know, men are in a way operating

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in a different mindset. But what
does that mean economically? So Harvard Business

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Review just came out with the study
that men in their forties, and please

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men in the audience, don't take
this the wrong way I'm just giving the

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stats from Harvard Business Review, which
is a very respected resource. Men in

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their forties make fifty five percent more
than women with the same education background and

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the same profession. You think to
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that is impacting how people get to
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staying with us and welcome back to
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of news that I want to share
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been working on for the last two
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It's about to be released. It's
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details of how they've discovered their purpose
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joining us today. My guest is
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Power to Lead. She's also the
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podcast for women leaders on the move
from Elgin, Illinois. I'm your host,

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Doctor Lee's Cortes. So for this
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about how you've been able to like
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how you've been able to leverage your past

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knowledge and your network to launch her
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really funny is that when I left
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you think, Okay, I'm done. I can't do trade shows ever

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again, right, And you're like, I'm not even gonna do events.

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I don't want to do any events. I'm just gonna do this, And

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then slowly things start to say that's
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have speakers. Why wouldn't I love
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that, and then I love creating
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earlier about women feeling siloed, guess
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and we're in our own lane,
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there's no like central place. We're
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to advancement. And so it's kind
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speaking of like how did what's happening
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couldn't couldn't part ways entirely. So
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for women organizations to have our own
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opportunities to speed network and have events, and that's evolving in the next

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six months. So I wasn't able
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and bring it together into some ways
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an image as you were talking,
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I love what you've shared here.
Why would you wanted to just throw away

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all of that knowledge and experience right. But I had an image that you

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know, here you are, you're
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the event's business, and you created
this beautiful vehicle. Right, let's whatever

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you want to get, put it
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or whatever it is. But you
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you started your new company here you
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a vehicle, right, Why would
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you know, the tires and the
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you know, really well? Right? To me? The reason I

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for our listeners and viewers who are trying

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to figure out a way to step
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can do to be able to take
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they know and those competencies into what
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did, what you've done is gorgeous. I mean I can see that being

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just incredibly robust. Well, that's
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to say something else, another kind
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business development my whole career. I
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and I never really thought of it
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building. And recently I've been on
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want to know your secret sauce,
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mean, well, talk to us
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I left the sales thing, like
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me, and they're like, what, like, what are you doing?

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two point oh or three point zero, don't ever totally throw the water out.

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Don't throw the bath water out,
but the baby, because you can

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still leverage things that you were good
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acknowledge that you were, but everyone
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you just sort of said, well, it's just something that comes naturally to

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me. So embrace your whole self
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next, because that's really important to
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your people, whatever it might be. Oh, I got to grab that

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one nod like Kazama Gallups Certified Strengths
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so naturally easy for you. Those
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because they're easy for you doesn't mean
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people just because you know, you
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it like this. So when you
recognize, you know, Superman can jump

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over over tall buildings, do you
think that you know he expects you to

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jump over tall buildings? You have
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opportunity to be able to really distinguish
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that's worthy of your one precious life, as I like to say, is

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to really discover those strengths, those
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then just bring them right. But
you do have to be you got to

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see the light as if you will, to be able to recognize that these

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things are actually your strengths and that
they're useful. So that was a gold

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nugget right there. You gave us, Natalie, thank you? Yeah,

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showcasing what you've been able to do. So one of the things that I

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absolutely love about what I get to
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for years is I love to literally
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my eyes as I watch them get
a major aha or insight or they ascend

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into a higher station of themselves.
That is the most amazing thing to see.

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woman reach her higher Well, there's
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who is a mentor to me and
has really helped me in my career,

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Lori Wessel's. She has two things. She likes to put the smile on

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corporate America, which I love.
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so which is true she is.
But she has this metaphor of riding

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the wave of transformation and sharing her
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you ask you that question, I
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this visual and so when we think
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what does that look like in three
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right, like it's easy to say, like, well, my purpose is

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I'm passionate about women, but what
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people up? And so I think
of Lourie and how she rides the wave

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of transformation and how she shines her
light out. And there's other women in

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our community who shine there, you
know, Melanie Neal who shines her beacon

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of light out and always always is
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and recognizing them. And she's another
one who reached out to me today actually

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out of the blue, just like
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one of our members was trying to
decide she was going to either go down

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a path of buying a company or
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America. She ended up taking a
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Laurie helped walk her through those decisions. What do I like doing? It's

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a very simple exercise, right,
what do I like doing? What fills

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me up? And what could I
do without? Right? And in that

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process it really helped her identify while
she really missed being in corporate and now

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she's taken on this big role.
So Anne has taken this giant leap and

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her molecules are are lighting the sky
for us. All that is so brilliant.

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You just made me think of something, So I'll share on my side

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too. I'm working with a client
right now where I'm doing. It's an

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eight week leadership program, and of
course it's done virtually. In this case,

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it's women across the United States,
and they just last week finished their

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last program where they had to present. And what was so great about it,

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in Natalie that you can relate to
this is they each had to share

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in their groups. There were twenty
five on the call, and there were

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four teams, and everybody in the
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see it because I'd been working with her.

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She was falling apart. She was
having a very hard time delivering her

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piece, and she was, you
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get through it and such, and
I could see it. And so she

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had always been really involved in all
the other sessions, and I'm like,

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gosh, what's going on here?
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where after everybody had presented, you
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spotlighted herself, and she said,
I just want to say how hard that

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was for me. I'm the only
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language, and I was so struggling
with that. Said, oh my gosh,

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your growth. We could all see
her in the moment, her molecules

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changing as she reached forward that and
struggle with it and kept on. And

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I said, you've got to get
more on this program than the rost of

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us did because about hard you worked. We saw you transform in those moments,

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right, persevering on the other side, right, It's so beautiful.

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she gets it. She doesn't walk
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well deserved value and pride for what
she's come through. What she's achieved so

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important. You know what you're describing, what I'm thinking of is grace.

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What did she go to first?
She didn't give herself grace and say,

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you know, that was so hard. But even though I got emotional,

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and even though it was like not
what I expected, I did it.

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I finished. Instead of that grace. She went to the other side,

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which we all tend to do,
which is like, here's what I didn't

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do, Here's what I wish I
could have done. Here's how I thought

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it was going to go, and
it didn't. So I would encourage everyone

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listening think about just giving yourself a
break and grace that look at what you

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did, and celebrate your wins,
even if it's small. We need to

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celebrate our own wins, even if
it's just getting out of bed today.

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You know, some days it is
hard to put those feat on the ground

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and make a step forward. And
so I think that's a wonderful story you

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shared. Thank you so much,
appreciate it. Yeah, you're welcome,

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so welcome. Yeah, And so
let's just show you how we could do

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that, listeners and viewers. How
could we give ourselves grace if we were

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this young woman she could actually go
into that and go, you know,

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I'm the only one of the people
that are in this group that speaks language

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as a third or fourth language,
and I'm going to come and I'm going

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to present I'm the only one who's
doing that. I'm really working at this

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right. That's a way to turn
that around. So for us to be

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able to model what it is we're
teaching you. So hell right. I'm

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a judge for the whole prize.
If you've heard of it, Huo Prize.

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It's a million dollar prize for social
entrepreneurs that are in college around the

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world. Three thousand and and I
got to sit in. What made me

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think of this is I'm sitting in
on pitch competitions with people from not in

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this country. Most of them were
from you know, fourth world and third

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world, and they came up with
these amazing innovations and you know, how

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to turn fish and you know co
two into like sustainable food in someone's apartment

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because they're being bombed outside. You
know, just crazy stuff that they were

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solving food, you know, a
food issue that they're solving. And it

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was just amazing to see, even
if their English wasn't because none of it

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none of them really had English,
many of them didn't have English as first

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languish. But seeing what they did
and what they came together for, it's

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so uplifting and celebrating that is so
important. So I think if we come

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across people that are doing that,
give them the congratulations and lift them up

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and say Wow, you did this, you're yeah, yeah, Well,

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I speak for five different languages,
and the other four, of course are

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romance languages. And I'm telling you
it's hard to make yourself understood it another

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language. It takes a bit so
really quick. Were coming at the end

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of our call, but I really
want to get to throw more things out

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of you. So one is I
wanted you to speak in on this topic

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here of living on your edge.
So I had a great guest in my

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show a few weeks ago named Gabrielle
Kazan, and his whole thing is about

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helping them discover their purpose. Great
guest, he said something interesting. He

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said, men are at their best
when they live at their edge. But

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I think that's true for women too. Were literally reaching from the top of

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our toes to our fingertips through what
we strive for. And what I also

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know through local therapy is we need
that tension between who we are being today

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who were trying to come tomorrow.
But what's your perspective on that matter?

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Are women? Do women need edge? Two? Oh? Well, I

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think we need edge and everyone thrives
in different ways. For me, I

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thrive in the last minute challenge of
like Okay, I gotta I'm gonna finish

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this, and you know, not
let perfection slow me down, but in

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that very last minute, push to
be on right before going on, and

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it's like that adrenaline rush. So
everybody functions a little bit differently, but

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I think women have the edge.
They exhibit the edge all the time,

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and we all can live in that
way. It just depends on how we

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apply it. Yeah, okay,
awesome. Well I know for me,

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I definitely am my best when I
live at my edge, for sure.

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Okay, So next thing I want
to get from you really quick is what

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delight to you in the work that
you're doing. Well. I kind of

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alluded to it earlier, but I
think when I know if I made a

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difference for someone, it really makes
everything I do worthwhile. So even though

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it may be really hard in the
moment doing a startup and all the things,

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if I helped one woman make progress
or get success, or do a

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connection and introduction, alliance, whatever, that really delights me. And then

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I have to say the other thing
is my girls. My two daughters are

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amazing and they inspire me every day
to strive to be better, to do

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my best because I want to make
it something great for them in the future.

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That's awesome. That's so awesome.
Yeah. So in other words,

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when you are what it is that
you which you appreciate what you're doing,

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you're mattering, right, people want
to matter. That's what we're up to

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here, right. So we've done
it. We've got through the show already,

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We're at the end. Say in
about fifteen seconds, what would you

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like to leave listeners with today?
I would love for people to join Women's

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Equality Day if you go to event
right, We're going to have a great

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session on Women's Equality Day and visit
percysuitet dot com if you want to learn

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more about all the amazing women that
are in our community. Awesome, Ntalie,

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thank you so much for joining me. You were just a pleasure to

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have on. I so enjoyed getting
to know you and sharing ful to be

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here. I'm so honored to be
here. Thank you. You're welcome,

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listeners, viewers. You want to
learn more about Natalie Benamu and what she's

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up to at her Power to Leads, visit that website. It's her Powertoo

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dot com. So it's hr pow
er then number two dot com and thanks

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again. To our partnering sponsor work
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where your workforce receives meaningful feedback and
thanks for the work from people across your

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company. Last week, if you
missed the live show, you can always

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catch it recorded podcast. We were
on here with Scott Warwick talking about the

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importance of the five skills he teaches
as an employment attorney and hr professional to

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learn tolerance and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Next week will be on the air

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with Deborah Westfall talking about her new
book, Convergence, Technology, Business and

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the Human Centric Future. So you're
there, Remember that works at least a

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third of our life. So let's
work on purpose. We hope you've enjoyed

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this week's program. Be sure to
tune in to Working on Purpose featuring your

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host, doctor Elise Cortes, each
week on the Voice America Empowerment Channel.

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Together, we'll create a world where
business operates conscientiously, leadership inspires impassioned performance,

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and employees are fulfilled in work that
provides the meaning and purpose They crave.

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See you there, Let's work on
Purpose.