Power
Power can be generative and beneficial for everyone involved, rather than destructive and coercive. Here’s how to grow and steward your right use of power.
We need to aspire to be feminist entrepreneurs and leaders and CULTURE MAKERS who take care of each other rather than exploit and prey on each other.
Culture change needs many things, we don’t need to be frustrated with someone for not doing the thing we think is important. WE can do that one thing.
We internalize messages about individual defects but when we zoom out and look at the bigger picture of social structures, we see things differently.
How privilege gets displayed AND LEVERAGED in our social media feeds — in pictures of our hair, kids, counter-tops, vacations, dinners and everyday life.
Writing is a form of power. It gives us the ability to create new norms & realities. Copywriting, in particular, can change the trajectory of your business.
We feel shame if there is a social expectation that we feel we’re not meeting, and that’s why I think shame is a wildly helpful at understanding oppression.
Let’s change the norms and the culture around us. That, across time, will change many of the people who were otherwise resistant.
Our social media is a huge opportunity. We are culture makers and can use our social media power DELIBERATELY to create a future in which we all flourish.
Using your resources and reputation to lift people starting out is a culture making tool. When we use culture-making business practices, everyone can flourish.