Mid-Morning Meeting

Hey, women, on International Women's Day, where we celebrate all the women that have come before us that have made amazing things happen in the world. And isn't that what we're all trying to create? Amazing impact on our communities, on our audiences, on each other. So when I think about like International Women's Day, first of all, it should be all the time. But second of all, it's not about the fall of men. It's not about gender roles and forging that gender parity. It's really about the balance of where women's impact comes into the social consciousness of the, of your community, of the world. So if you're a badass woman and you're making change in the world, freaking tell everybody. And that's what I do with PR, right? It's just telling everybody what you're thinking. So I'm challenging you today, get on your social, do this, go live and just tell people what you think. Tout what you've been creating, talk about— it's so important that we challenge each other, and that's why I challenge you to get online and talk about what you do. But like, Because I came up in the TV world where women weren't seen as equal, where there weren't executive producers who were women or even producers who were women. I was thinking back to when I worked at The Tonight Show and there might've been 2 or 3 women that were there that were in, you know, at a certain stature. And they were the ones that were talking to the interns. They were the ones that were coming to people who were new. They were the ones that were like investing in the other women that were coming up. Thank God. Thank God I had somebody that invested in me and saw who I was. You know, when I worked at MTV, um, my whole department was basically women, and we were the engine behind a lot of things that happened at Viacom that nobody knew about. So I've had really great women, um, mentors, you know. So I actually worked at, um, a company called Clear Channel, which is radio. And my— and I remember working with one of the managers there and her like telling me how She was the only woman in the boardroom. She was the only woman at her level. And the fact that she wasn't married actually added to her success because if she was married, it wasn't gonna be about the kids and it wasn't gonna be about everything else. And I think that's really where I got that, where I'm gonna have a corner office and my kids are gonna come to work with me and I'm gonna creep in the corner. Like, I don't know what I was thinking. What I was thinking was that everything was possible and then I could create something for the lifestyle that I wanted because I had these amazing women to represent for me. So You and I are representing for other women, right? You and I are representing for our daughters, our kids. And because I'm a mom of boys, I'm representing of how women should be seen and treated. It's amazing what they see and feel that guys my age don't even understand, you know, because they were brought up differently. So I'm going to challenge everybody to, to represent, to celebrate International Women's Day, to talk about International Women's Day in a way that we can bring everybody up. So happy International Women's Happy Mother's Day from me to you.