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Clip from a DOAC episode with the amazing @reshmasaujani
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steven

2024-04-28 23:38:44

years ago i got asked to give a speech at bill gates summit the slot that they had given me was between bill gates and warren buffett and it was the only speech that anyone was giving it was a summit of fortune one hundred ceos so you can imagine who was in the room and i remember them saying you know this is a really hard speaking slot reshma because most people are really intimidated because bill and warren are sitting in the front row and it can be a little scary and i remember as i was sitting there in the backstage they'd given me ten minutes to speak
i remember thinking man i wish they gave me twelve because i really had some more stuff to say and then i remember thinking how did i become this woman when i used to be that girl and i remember thinking yeah it's because i've been in every single power of a room i've met every single ceo every president every prime minister and when i meet them i'm like you you're running what's fun
me and my girls we can run circles around you and i realised that it's never been about whether we are qualified whether we're prepared whether we're ready that we've really never really dissected all of the undeserved unearned privilege that so many people have and that we have literally bought and been fed basically this propaganda that we're not good enough that we're not smart enough that we don't belong and the real resistance in this moment saying no more i'm not reading those books i'm not taking those courses i'm not taking that class i'm not buying into that bullshit i'm here and i can lead to