Thank you for joining us for episode 393 of Live Happy Now.

December 1 marks Women's Supporting Women Day, and this week's guest believes that's something we aren't doing nearly enough.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I am joined by author, speaker, and coach Caroline Miller,

whose concern about women's failure to support one another led her to write the e-book,

I Have Your Back, which is about creating mastermind success groups for women.

This week, she's here to share what she's learned about why women don't support one another,

explain what it's doing to our culture, and then tell us what we can learned about why women don't support one another, explain what it's doing to our

culture, and then tell us what we can do about it. Let's take a listen. Carolyn, welcome back to

Live Happy Now. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it so much. It has been a while since we've talked,

had you on the show, but when I saw what you're working on, I knew we had to get you back on to talk about this.

So tell me, first of all, before we jump in, why don't you tell us what it is that your new project is?

Well, I have a new ebook out called hashtag I Have Your Back, Mastermind Success Groups for Women.

It's available as an ebook download for purchase on my website.

I decided to just self-publish because I have been obsessed for several years now

with finding a solution to why we as women know, but don't always talk about the women don't support each other and how

we actually actively undermine each other. And I finally got to the point where I was brave enough

to not just write about it, but include an evidence-based solution because all I saw was the

problem being made more beautiful.

And I wanted to put out something that was proactive that people could do something immediately about. And that's the project. Let's talk about what it was that you saw that made you say,

I have to write about this.

The fact that women were standing still are going backwards in terms of female CEOs in Fortune 50 or Fortune 500 companies, you know, the World Economic Bureau saying it's going

to be even longer, 185 years until women achieve pay parity, the Me Too movement,

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