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<v Narrator>They say no progress.</v>

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For you,

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for me,

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for us.

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All the numbers, all the words,

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the spin makes my head spin.

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Unattainable, unachievable,

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unbelievable.

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But I know better because I know them,

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all these women.

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I know because I'm here too in the trenches.

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We are building, creating,

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fighting every damn day.

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Getting sued, going broke,

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paid less, pushed out,

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dismissed, unfunded.

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All because I have a different voice,

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a different idea.

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A new idea.

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<v ->So I got sued for gender discrimination</v>

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for not allowing men into my events

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and it happened on the day of the women's march.

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I came back from marching,

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had my sign,

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and a bunch of papers were left on my doorstep

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and it was just like of course you know,

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well played sirs, well played.

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<v ->I have a male co-founder</v>

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and the way that we're perceived,

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especially when we've gone

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and fund-raised is very different.

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I'm called either aggressive

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or impulsive,

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he never gets called those adjectives

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and I do think it's interesting that instead

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of saying confident or aggressive in a good way,

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it's seen as a bad thing.

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<v ->You make a step right,</v>

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then there's a retaliation right?

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There's people who want to hold on to what they have,

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they feel like they're losing

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if a marginalized group is gaining.

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<v ->There is a need for a new type of leadership,</v>

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a new type of woman in the workplace

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and all of us really dearly need to say

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this is not a rehearsal anymore,

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we need to act now and we need to embrace our energy

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and our voice and our right to you know speak out.

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<v Narrator>I know I'm not alone</v>

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because we are each other's stories

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and each other's power.

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What happens to you happens to me.

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<v ->So the sense of a community is terrifically important.</v>

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I think just as human beings we all want to have

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that sense of belonging which comes

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with being part of a community.

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<v ->I think also when you're in this community</v>

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because there aren't as many of us

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in it is that we build our own tribes.

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I have a huge community of women,

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entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs who...

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breathe new kind of life into me personally

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and professionally as I do this.

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<v ->As a woman in tech,</v>

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you can be anything you want to be,

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you can be hard,

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you can be soft,

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you can be feminine,

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you can be nice,

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you can be a hard ass.

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It takes all kinds of us to be there

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and we all need to be there for each other.

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<v Narrator>Adversity will never go away.</v>

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Progress will never be done.

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But with each other we find resilience

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and we find courage

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and in that finding of each other,

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we find change.