Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. And today I have the pleasure of sharing an interview I did with Brooke Baldwin, author of Huddell, How Women Unlock Their Collective Power, which is now a Wall Street Journal and national bestseller. As a CNN anchor, Brooke Baldwin covered the 2017 presidential inauguration and the historic

women's march in D.C. The experience changed her perspective and led to the question,

what happens when women huddle? She wanted to learn from women who were forming change movements

or were supporting each other in the workplace or on the field. But most of all, she wanted to learn what

happens when women harness each other's power by gathering together either in person or virtually

to huddle. In this interview, Brooke shares amazing stories and actionable advice we can all take

in finding our own huddles. I hope you enjoy. Brooke, welcome to the Modern Mentor Podcast. I am so

honored to have you on as a guest, and I'm so excited to talk about your new book, Huddle,

how women unlock their collective power. Yes. Thank you for having me, Rachel.

Oh, so excited to have you here. So I'm going to go ahead and dive right in with you. I read it. And my

initial reaction was you talk about this thing called the huddle, the idea of which I've never really

thought about before. But now you've coined the term. You've put it in front of me. And now all I can do is

look back on the entirety of my life and see all of these huddles.

With a huddle lens. Everything changes. Everything up until now has been a huddle and now I have

the word and so it's like pink elephants. Now you've said it and that's all I can see. Welcome to my

world, my dear. Welcome to my world. So I love it. I love how how warm and cozy, but, but important it is. And I'd love to

hear just a little bit of the backstory. So how did this idea of the huddle come to you? How did you

see it? And what brought you here? Yes. I mean, thank you so much for your enthusiasm.

I really want to create a movement among women using this word huddle, like living life through the huddle ends.

I purposely pick this word huddle because I often think of maybe, you know, a bunch of men getting together, a bunch of dudes on a football field, right?

It's a very sort of more male, male tinted word. And I wanted as women us to flip it on its head, feminize it and own it. It's a noun. It's a verb. The way I'm

defining a huddle is like where, where women are energized by the mere fact of their coexistence.

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