Are you scared to dream for yourself? Do you think there's only a certain

caliber of women who are allowed to set and achieve goals and to carry ambitions?

Today I have an important message for you. You are allowed to want more out of your life.

Welcome to About Progress. I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist.

He uncovered the truest model to dramatic, belasting, personal growth.

Its progress made practical. Join us to leave the extremes behind and instead learn how to do

something to grow and ways that stick. This month marks our five-year anniversary.

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for a month long of giveaways I'm doing to celebrate our five-year anniversary.

More on that giveaway is coming later in the show, but for now, here's to you and here's to

five years of About Progress. As a society, we seem to have a real distaste for women with ambition.

If we see a woman who is paving the way to make it to the top, whether it's as the president of

the PTA or to the doors of the White House, we often hear the world tear her down a notch or two.

Who does she think she is? We seem to think that women like this must be so full of themselves to

dare reach for higher and so boldly too. I'm annoyed by this perception for sure, but what truly

disturbs me now is how much we have internalized these beliefs about women and dreams and ambitions

and goals in our own lives. All around me, I see amazing women of all backgrounds and of all

skills and talents of all possibilities who are sitting on the sidelines of their own lives.

We do this to ourselves so easily. It's like we take ourselves down a notch or two before someone

else has the chance to. It's like we ask, who do I think I am? Why is it so easy for us as women to

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