Welcome to Core I am. I'm Shreya Trevetti and this is going to be a little bit of a different episode. I recently gave a talk at

this Women in Medicine conference called Girl Med Live. And for anyone that knows me, you know I feel so strongly

about creating a workplace that is gender equitable,

where women really uplift each other,

and not just women, but a place where everyone feels appreciated

and supported.

I think that's so important in medicine.

And this conference was a perfect example of that.

So before I share with you all the speaker's messages, let's talk first about the inspiring story

of how Girl Med Life started. So Girl Med Media was formed after the Girl Med Twitter

hashtag community kind of took off. So a lot of people were rallying around the hashtag and it became this beautiful community

that a lot of people relied on for support.

And there were a couple of things that happened that led us to wanting those positive feelings

and those connections to translate from being exclusively online to having an in real life component.

All right, that was Pearl, one of the organizers of Girl Med Live. This was truly a grassroots effort.

In fact, Joanie, one of the other organizers would say, it was less than that.

They neither had grass nor roots.

It was just a couple of tweets and they said, let's do it.

And now we're here.

And it just goes to show how there's an incredible power in social media and

Twitter in terms of movements.

So I feel so inspired being here with all these speakers.

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