jessbashline

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...

I am fucking furious. There is no other way to put it.

I realized something recently. I am incredibly good at surviving. I can stay one step ahead of the storm. I can manage the logistics, inhabit the roles, and meet the expectations. I am an expert at the high-achieving hustle. For a long time, I thought that was the same thing as winning. But surviving is not thriving. Surviving is reactive. It is about keeping the plates spinning. Thriving is generative. It requires the audacity to know what you want and the courage to name it. For years, I...