OPENING UP TO
GIVING BACK
by Jennifer
Mather
D
ear Reader,
I wrote a really sweet article about giving back to our communities as women business
owners and how to use our position to inspire our
friends and family to do the same. But that is not
what you are going to read here. What you are
about to read is a piece written from my recent
encounters with other business women in the wake
of the election.
Ladies, lest we have forgotten, we were pioneer
women. We were horseback riding, rifle shooting,
field plowing badass women birthing babies in the
back of wagons while on the frontier.
There was no time for daily pettiness, judgment
and competition when we were pioneer women.
We filled our days then with perseverance, dedication and prayer. We were united in survival and we
were powerful.
We have come so far away from that power. We
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almost damn near lost that power altogether had
it not been for the women’s suffrage movements
and the women’s lib movement. We have not yet
claimed that raw natural power, unity and independence for ourselves again but we are working
on it.
If you are not American, you should not feel apart.
We are united and we share that same thread of
strength no matter where we come from or where
we are now. We have overcome the same adversities, the same obstacles, heartbreaks and hardships. We are one.
From a business perspective, as an entrepreneur
myself, I see this power of the pioneer woman
gaining ground in each new lady boss with a vision
and a mission.
Some of us pull away from the pack and become
leaders, mentors and guru’s guiding and inspiring
other women to grow into their full personal and