A short spoken message by Ashok Gupta urging individuals (especially women) to realize their potential and for more women to assume leadership roles. He links increased female leadership and 'female energy' to better global outcomes—less climate change impact, inequality, war, and social strife—and encourages listeners to blossom and live their life purpose.
Are you a flower bud or a flower? You know, whether you're male or female, whatever barriers, whatever prejudices we come up against, we can realize that we have all the potential within ourselves, within this bud, to fully blossom, to be a gift to the planet, to live our life purpose. And it's only our fears that keep us tightly bound. And it's recognizing that we need nothing from the outside to fully achieve our potential. And right now in the planet, we need more women in leadership roles. Now why is that? Because I believe that a lot of the challenges and the problems that we're facing in the world are due to a lack of balance of leadership at the top, a lack of female energy. And this is contributing to all the issues we're facing, which are climate change, inequality, war, social strife, racism. I believe if we had more women at the top, it would actually balance those things out and we would improve the planet. And one of my great teachers once said, men have the ability to inspire, to fight, but women have the ability to inspire, to unite. And so there are some things that I think women are naturally better at. For instance, bringing together people from unique backgrounds, diverse backgrounds, diverse viewpoints, or looking at the consequences, longer term of our actions, that female energy is so needed in dealing with today's modern challenges. And so the inspiration that I want to leave you with is that when we bring more women into those leadership roles, and whether those leadership roles be in our community, in our family, in our society, in our companies, in politics, we actually uplift the planet. We create a balance of male and female energies and we create a more conscious society. So upwards and onwards, you have all those talents, all those abilities to shine. The world needs you right now. And I hope you're ready to live your potential.
