Redirecting the Spotlight: Calling All REAL Female Role Models

By amiechilson

I’m not the only one tired of the constant bombardment of media coverage on the reckless lifestyles of our Hollywood celebrity princesses. Frankly I’m tired of hearing so much hoopla about who is shaving their head, getting DUI’s, or going commando!

Thank goodness for User Generated Content! It’s high time we redirect the spotlight on people worthy of celebrating, and that is the purpose of Women Who Win™.

The kicker for me to launch the show happened when I placed a mic in the hands of a 15-year-old girl in front of a large wealthy crowd of Silicon Valley folk at a reserved club and asked her to ‘tell her story’. My company was sponsoring the weekly mixer and she was representing the non-profit we focused much of efforts to support. The first words out of her mouth were, “the landscape for our female role models is pretty bleak”. (Cue crickets)

Those words hit me pretty hard, and I promptly got off my lazy heiny and resurrected the concept of this show. It’s a starting point and a mere sample of the types of incredible women out there, celebrity or relatively unknown, that we’d like to know more about. There are accessible, humble, downright dynamite females of all ages doing awesome things across the globe and I feel so fortunate to be able to spend 30 minutes interviewing them.

I hope our efforts spawn more monthly themes, shows, and wonderful UGC (User Generated Content) so that spotlight from Hollywood starts refocusing its misdirected lights.

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