I HATE that you can’t delete or edit after a certain point on here. I feel like it’s a trap so people can go “gotcha!” at a later date.

The jenga piece. This is such an apt metaphor. I keep things mostly together but every once in a while it feels like a jenga piece is about to come loose and it’s always a different onethat throws me for a massive loop (our life savings is a pittance! I take too much sick time for my kids! Should we move to a…

A little late to this party because I was reading this at my desk earlier and started tearing up - had to wait til I got home ;) - but wanted to let you know, this is amazing! You truly are an amazing mentor. To take that time and effort and to truly impact these girls lives. Wow. Just. WOW.

You are amazing

I would like to read this book too - you should collect these stories and publish them for the rest of us.

Apropos of nothing, a “Kate Spud” handbag, done right, could be silly and fun.

I feel the same way... I’m in mining, and there’s so few women in mining fields that feel like you have to have your shit together all the time, every day. Women don’t have the luxury to show emotion in certain environments. I also deal with crippling depression where I have to close my office door and cry. My male…

You are truly an amazing, open-hearted, and wise person. I’m in awe.

This made me cry. What an amazing gift you were/are to those women.

Thank you! I’m thinking now of putting together something like this for my 13 YO daughter. She is awesome, but the beast of low self-esteem is starting to rear its ugly head, as it does in the teen years. I want to give her some tools and examples to fight back.

Absolutely the most beautiful and compassionate display of friendship. This made my heart ache in the best way. Well done.

This is an amazing story. Thank you for being so wonderful. :)

Replying to bump. Wow.

Your comment hit me hard. I’m a young woman in a male dominated professional field, and failure, or even just my perception of what might be considered failure ruins me at times. I’m slowly getting better at believing in myself, and my capabilities, and remembering that it’s okay to sometimes makes mistakes, everyone…

This sounds like an amazing book idea to potentially publish. I would relish something like this.

Yes, please share, or at least give a list of the women you used as inspiring examples. It sounds like an incredible gift to give someone.

Hi, as someone who just had shit break real bad in my life, you’re great, thanks for doing that for them and for your comment here.

You did an awesome thing for them. Seeing how others have handled struggles and that they actually had struggles in the first place is something young people really need.

Thank you for this. I want to hug you.

I spent hours researching women leaders and pioneers and disruptors and finding all the stories I could about those women to correlate to the failures and fears they wrote down, and then I hand wrote those stories under their statements in a book.