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Own Your Power!

Welcome! This little, hidden corner of my website offers space for deeper exploration and reflection on owning your power. Here you'll find worksheets and additional readings on women's language and presence, curated to spark awareness and invite conscious choice. When we can name the systems and patterns that potentially disempower, we exercise our personal agency to rewrite them.

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Recommended Readings

Books

Playing Big by Tara Mohr
Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser
The Power Code by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Articles

4 Ways Women are Physically Stronger Than Men by Starre Vartan
Why Women Need To Stop Talking Themselves Down by Dr. Margie Warrell
Why Do We Diss Women’s Speech by Dr. Valerie Fridland
The Unheard Female Voice by Stephani Watson
Uptalk & The Importance of Normalizing Women’s Speech Patterns by Cara Hutto

Research

Warmth and Competence by Cuddy, Fiske & Glick
The Tallest Poppy by Women of Influence+
When Women Don’t Speak by BYU
Who Takes the Floor and Why by Brescoll
How AI Bots and Voice Assistants Reinforce Gender Bias by Chin-Rothmann and Robison