Savvy Style Talk
This past week, along with Monica Rayes, of the SBDC in Santa Monica, I presented a talk entitled,
“Savvy Style to Promote Your Profession”. Wow, what a motivated, stylish and creative group of
women. There was such a great energy and enthusiasm for being entrepreneurial, nobody needed
encouragement to connect and network.
Yet despite all this overflowing talent and professionalism, I noticed an interesting and disappointing yet
not surprising reaction to a self-love exercise I gave them.
At the beginning of the talk I passed out lavender paper heart cut-outs and asked each woman to write
down her favorite body part or feature on one side and her name on the other. Some asked “Whose body part/
feature?” I clarified, “Not what you like about our waiter! Or someone else. YOUR own body part!” Some others
said disappointingly “Really? Um, I don’t know. I’m not sure”.
I noticed it took a little while for a few to think of something. I encouraged them to write two or three if they could.
At the end I read all of the hearts out loud and only one woman out of 15 listed three body part/features she loved.
Imagine all of these driven, successful beautiful women and yet for some it was a challenge to come up with just one thing
they loved, let alone three! Sadly I have a feeling this is a typical response from women and I’m encouraging
women I work with to really love themselves from the inside out and celebrate their fabulousness.
