The Power of Women Supporting Women!

Glennon spoke at our Leadership Conference this weekend, and she spoke truth about how women are viewed in the world, and how women can treat each other at times. This truth hit me in a visceral way, very deeply as I have experienced this throughout my life. The irony of hearing her say this, and my own experience of coming in to this company on fire, and immediately, some women trying to put out my flames. Ouch.

Fortunately for every story I have of someone trying to dim my light, I have another story of a woman building me up, believing in me and cheering me on. I love this and I love the power in it. Any time we cheer a woman on, we cheer all women on. I feel so strongly about this as I have experienced both sides, and being an empath I feel both the negative and positive energy of others.

Let me ask you this…..

Are you a champion of others (other women) or are you a critic?

Naturally, we all have our inner critic, but making the choice to cheer others on, lift them up, edify them and be happy for them is in my opinion traits of a strong leader and necessary for leadership of women.

Here are some thought provoking questions we as women can ask ourselves:

—Are we seeing the best in others?

—Are we recognizing those around us?

—Are we leading with a positive and caring spirit?

—Are we building others up?

—Are we a champion of good words, good deeds and positivity?

We have choice in how we show up for each other, and these power words are a choice each day and in every way:

—Collaboration over Competition

—Joy over Jealousy

—Edification over Ego

—Co-Exist over Comparing

—Faith over Fear

—Generosity over Greed

—Love over Loathe

—Team Work over Self

—Positive over Negative

—Empathy over Emotions

—Real over being Right

—Compassion over Comparing

—Courage over Conflict

—Building over Blaming

—Compliments over Complaining

—Friendly over Fickle

—Spirited over Selfish

We are human and as women, we feel all sorts of feelings, some of which do not feel good and are sometimes a natural response because of our environment or how we grew up. It is okay, it is not black and white. What it is, is an opportunity to RISE above—and be the person that has courage to be different.

As women, we are conditioned to believe we are suppose to be busy, perform and kick ass at all times. Unfortunately, we spend too much time doing that and not enough time on the emotional intelligence of connecting with each other with more compassion, more positivity and more inspiration. Can you imagine if we looked at each other with joyful eyes and without judgement? Can you imagine if we cheered each other on like never before?

What If? What if you made the decision to be the champion of those around you, not just the ones that do something for you? It’s time for us all to RISE UP, it is time for us to Lead with LOVE! XO