Hip Trinkle Chick, April 22, 2007.

Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 80th edition of the Hip Trinkle Chick

podcast, a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.

While I'm in New York, for a month-long teacher training, I've got a series of fabulous

interviews lined up with some phenomenal women.

We'll resume a regular format when I return late May.

So stay tuned at Hiptrinkelchick.com slash blog as I'll be musing regularly on my experience and insights during the training.

And a reminder that we have a few spots left for the Hiptrinkle chick retreat in June,

complete with a holistic health chef, specialty workshops, and more.

Deba Condren has coached thousands of women at every level from those just starting out to the most powerful female executives in America.

And in each of them is the same fear of going after a dream because she'll be seen as selfish, bitchy, a bad wife, or a bad mother.

But it's exactly this fear of ambition that has forced women to leave the best part of

themselves, their dreams, and their great talents by the roadside, and has made them less able to

be the whole person they should be in every area of life. Condren has a new message and mission

to remind women that ambition is a virtue, not a vice.

Ambition is the best of who we are.

I'm delighted to share this interview with Deborah with you.

She's a phenomenal woman, and as I mentioned, as soon as I purchased this book,

I think it was December 28, 2006, that I picked it up. I read it within a

couple days, and I just thought it was absolutely phenomenal and hit the nail on the head with

regard to kind of societal pressure or societal impression of what a ambitious woman really is.

And this book kind of breaks it all down

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