Amber Pierce - Reframing Competition for Women

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Amber Pierce is a professional cyclist who has won more than 60 races across five continents. When she's not racing, she's mentoring and encouraging women through sport and competition.

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0:00.0	The presenting sponsor of this season of Wild Ideas Worth Living is Subaru.
0:08.2	One thing I just learned that I thought was very cool is Subaru is donating 50 million meals to help feed people need during the COVID-9. is hundreds of thousands out of work and unable to feed themselves or their families.
0:24.8	Through the Subaru Love Promise, a commitment to support their communities, Subaru and their retailers
0:29.7	across the country are making a donation to provide 50 million meals to feeding America.
0:35.6	This action called Subaru Loves to Help will make meals available at 199 local food banks
0:41.0	across the country.
0:42.0	In addition, Subaru retailers will be doing
0:45.0	other things to help these local food banks, including food deliveries,
0:48.6	donations, and volunteer events. Subaru knows their ongoing support will be necessary as local communities
0:54.9	work to get back on their feet. Subaru loves to help. Just one part of the
0:59.7	Subaru love promise, one more reason that makes Subaru more than a competitive S. O B. But sometimes as women
1:20.4	like competition can be a little bit of a dirty word it can yeah it's a
1:25.0	funny thing because um like some people just embrace it and have no problem with it
1:28.6	but I think that there's a huge fraction of women who don't always get really good social feedback for being competitive.
1:35.6	I think a more general experience is that, you know, if a man is competitive, he's looked at as ambitious and a go-getter and as a woman,
1:45.2	maybe not such a nice word, right?
1:48.0	I was a swimmer when I was younger and, you know, again, always competitive but always worried
1:52.3	about I don't want to beat my friend, you know again always competitive but always worried about I don't want to beat my friend you
1:54.4	know especially if if the person I'm raising against is a good friend or a colleague there's that
1:58.8	sense of wanting to be liked not wanting to hurt feelings.
2:02.8	And finally dawned on me that actually competition
2:05.3	is a really cooperative effort.
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