Sunday Love Letter
Likeability is a trap is weaponized against women and girls, to prevent us from being on our own team, taking care of ourselves, and pursuing our dreams.
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.
Getting free and healing is never one-and-done. Especially when the source of injury in an oppressive culture that wants you to disappear — remains.
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.
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.
I get asked a lot who I follow. Here’s a quick (and not exhaustive) list of culture makers who are currently influencing and DELIGHTING me.
Let’s change the norms and the culture around us. That, across time, will change many of the people who were otherwise resistant.
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