Why Only Women?
- jessbashline
- Feb 12
- 3 min read
People ask me this all the time. Sometimes with curiosity. Sometimes with a little edge. Why only women? Do you hate men?
No- I don't hate men. Sometimes I love them a little too much.
But I believe—in my bones, in my gut, in the part of me that has watched woman after woman walk into a room carrying decades of "not enough" and then, with the right conditions, absolutely detonate—that women operating at full creative capacity are one of the most powerful forces on this planet.
And we are not there yet. Not even close.
The women I work with are not lacking intelligence. They are not lacking drive. They are not lacking vision. What they are lacking—what most of us have been systematically trained to lack—is permission. Permission to take up space. Permission to say this is what I want without immediately qualifying it, shrinking it, or apologizing for it.
The hurdles are real. The inner critic that sounds suspiciously like every room that ever told you to be quieter, smaller, more palatable. The years of putting everyone else's creative needs before your own until you genuinely cannot remember what your own voice sounds like. The high-achieving trap—that place where you are so good at performing competence that you have completely lost touch with what actually lights you up.
I know these hurdles. I have tripped over every single one of them.
So why women specifically? Because the container matters.
In my theater work, I learned early that the ensemble you build determines what becomes possible. When women are in a space together—really together, not performing professionalism for a mixed room, not code-switching, not managing how they come across—something opens up. The work goes deeper. The risk tolerance is higher. The breakthroughs are faster and they go further.
I am not saying men cannot do this work. I am saying that right now, in this particular moment in history, I am laser-focused on what happens when women stop waiting for the world to get its act together and start creating from a place of full, radical, unapologetic power. I am focused on that because I think it matters. A lot. For all of us.
Here is what I have watched happen when a woman truly reclaims her creative capacity:
She stops making decisions from fear and starts making them from vision. She stops editing herself before she even speaks. She starts building things—companies, art, movements, conversations—that reflect what she actually believes rather than what she thought she was allowed to believe. She gets louder. Not louder in a noisy way. Louder in the way that means she finally stopped muffling herself.
That ripples. Into her organization. Into her family. Into her community. Into the world.
I genuinely believe we are in a moment that needs exactly this. The old scripts are not working. The old structures are cracking. And the women who are willing to get into their creative laboratories—who are willing to do the weird, embodied, risky, joyful work of figuring out who they actually are and what they actually want—those women are going to help write the next chapter.
That is why I only work with women.
Not because everyone else is less important. Because this is where I know I can do the most good. This is where my tools, my instincts, and my fire are most useful. And this is the work that, honestly, feels most urgent to me right now.
If you are a woman who is done surviving and ready to start creating—I am here. Let's go.
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