Badassery Magazine Issue 6 | Page 10

Our self-care is lacking. Okay, well so I meditated last week…if you count when I fell asleep in the hallway outside my kid’s piano lesson. Oh and I totally drooled on my shirt…so, no, that shirt was NOT clean after all. THAT, my friends, is the problem. Our aspiring “Girl Boss/Boss Babe” counterparts have no knowledge of the guts of business. They’ve never gotten their hands dirty. They’ve never lost their shit over a demanding client. They’ve never made the 5 big mistakes that helped them become 5 times better and bigger. They know exactly what the font, colors, and vibe of their brand is, but they have no fucking clue why someone NEEDS their brand. Where is the value? They have value…but they’re not getting to the dirty, ugly process that helps them find it. The answer is not to rid the world of the “Girl Boss/Boss Babe” movement…the answer is to embrace it and refine it. We need to be preparing the next generation of women to lead, to work, to take charge and to change the world. The images and lifestyle that are being portrayed with the “Girl Boss/Boss Babe” movement are where the roots of where the damage begins. We have young women graduating from college and instead of worrying about their business plan, quality of service and differentiation from their competition…you have an entire group of women that are much more concerned with the IMAGE of those things. “Dress for the job you want.” “You need to look successful to be successful.” “I’m working on my figure so I can make 6 figures.”