One of the things you learn when you study history is that anytime there's an expansion of

rights and equality, there's often a blowback. History is not a perfectly straight line. It's more

like an elliptical loop where we go forward and we move backwards. And we are now living through

a backlash to feminism and to women's empowerment. And we're seeing that with the culture shifts, with our current political situation, with the labeling of anything that's about women or quality for anyone as being about quote unquote DEI and that being a bad thing in the current kind of political

culture, right? So this is really unfortunate, but not entirely unpredictable. And we get to

decide how to respond to it. Because I don't know about you, but I am not planning to give up my

career and go be barefoot in the kitchen. I mean, I like to cook,

so sometimes I'm barefoot in the kitchen, but I'm also the person in my relationship who

supports our family, and I don't plan on changing that. And I don't plan on being quiet and being

meek and being small or apologizing for the work that I do to help women feel more confident

and achieve their full potential.

So it is even more important right now for us to continue to develop and grow and achieve

the goals that we have for our lives.

If we all just fall back because the culture is having a reaction, then we become part of

that reactionary response. And I know that's

not what any of us want. We always get to choose who we want to be and how we want to show up in our

lives. And we are the models and inspiration for everyone around us for our friends, our families,

our children, our colleagues, our employees, anyone who's watching,

I want them to see me standing up. So that is why I think it is more important now than ever

to continue the journey of creating the life you want on purpose from your own vision, not just

being who society tells you to be.

And one of the most incredible tools I have for doing that is called connecting to your

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