This morning I heard the most inspiring talk from one of the most inspiring women I know, Miss Jacki Zehner. The talk was sponsored by 85 Broads, an organization of power women set up to educate, empower and connect talented women across industries, generations, and geographies, and the room was filled with said women — including author Leslie Bennetts, SheSpot guru Lisa Witter, and NCRW leader Linda Basch. When I got up to circulate, I heard three women say, “I wish I had given that speech.” It was just that kind of speech. The title? “Are YOU Ready for a Revolution?”
This here’s a pic of Jacki climbing a chair as she takes off her power jacket to unveil the Wonder Woman girl power t-shirt she’s wearing underneath. And that was only the start. I mean, that was the end of the striptease, but the beginning of a speech on making the personal political–a favorite theme of mine–in which she urged us all to push past our comfort zones. Jacki did, when she took on Goldman Sachs, where she was formerly a partner, in her ballsy (female anatomy equivalent here) post at HuffPo last month, called “Why Are Goldman’s Women Invisible?”.
Jacki blogs at 85 Broads, and at her own blog PursePundit, at HuffPo, and is soon to be a media star, I just know it. Look out world, cause Purse Pundit is on the LOOSE. The woman walks her talk, bringing the message to a sector where revolution is not exactly water cooler conversation: the corporate sphere.
So she got me thinking, where are the edges of my comfort zone? Where are yours?
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