Bravo is hosting our first What's YOUR Plan BE? women's workshop series next week on identifying your strengths and talents and putting them to work.
We have invited all the women in our network.
Even the "just a stay at home mom"
Julie Airheart, a Bravo cheerleader made some calls last week to women we have invited to see if they can join us on May 6th. I listened in as I happily typed away on my computer. One call she placed was to a "stay at home mom" and the conversation from my end was interesting to listen to. When Julie got off the phone I asked her who she was talking to. It was a personal friend of hers that she had invited. "So does she want to come?"
Julie got a funny look on her face. "Well I think she is interested but she said to me 'why would I come to something like that. I am just a stay at home mom'". Ugh.
I don't do well with people who call themselves "just a stay at home mom"
My friend Blynda Lane has on her facebook info page that her job title is "Manager of Lane Enterprises" I love that ! I have started sharing that with other women I know in my movement of one to convince women that "just a stay at home mom" does not even begin to describe what and who you are.
Women, no matter their job title or professional status are ALL WORKING WOMEN and deserve to take time for themselves to learn, grow, engage and become who they were meant to be. In my 30's I have learned that life is about stages and chapters and while there was a chapter titled "Libby is a stay at home mom" it was one chapter in the adventure of my own life. And the word "JUST" was never on my calling card. I am "just" nothing.
Now my "stay at home mom" chapter of my life was pretty short. I was teaching three lectures a week when Maddie was a year old so I had a beautiful life with "stay at home mom" defining me for the most part but I got "grown up time" for a beautiful 10 hours a week too.
For women who "just a stay at home mom" has been their life for the last 2, 5, 6, 10 or 15 years it is easy for the word JUST to creep into our description of self and suddenly, without intention, we have reduced our worth with such a simple four letter word.
It is this very thing that birthed "What's YOUR plan BE?" at Bravo. We are asking women this year "who do you want to be?" and more importantly "what are you doing to make that happen?"
Even for those who are "just stay at home moms".
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