When I became a lawyer, I was looking at law firms that were offering me jobs, different communities,

different companies, different organizations that I could work at as an attorney.

And I found that they were all lacking women.

They were all lacking people of color and definitely all lacking women and people of color

in the higher

authoritative positions. And so what I found is like, listen, I do not want to be in an

environment where old white man is going to tell me what to do. And literally, this was my

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Okay, people, I really want to talk to you today about a very important topic. I'm calling this

episode, you don't need a white man to get ahead.

And I think that as women and especially as women of color, we need to talk about this.

Because I see it in the online business world and, of course, outside of the online business world,

we need to talk about how we are still relying on white men to choose us so that we can reach the levels of success that we want to reach.

I want to start talking about this topic with a story from my college years. Okay. I'm 37 years old. So I graduated from

college about 15 years ago. And when I was in college, I took a women in leadership course.

I was super excited. I pretty much took every course in college that had the word women in it.

You know, women in literature, et cetera. So my women in leadership class was taught by a white woman. She was an attorney

and she was an adjunct professor. So she wasn't a regular professor. And we were studying

this book. I wish I could find it. I couldn't find the syllabus. I actually went

digging for it for this class because I really wanted to share the book, but I cannot remember what it was.

But we were taking the lessons each week from this book. And one of the lessons was, one of the chapters was about that we need white men to be our allies to choose us and open doors for

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