Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

I had to unlearn being an “Independent” Woman 🫢 #shorts

24 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A speaker reflects on having believed she did not need a man and how that independence made relationships difficult. She addresses young women in business who feel they can do better alone, acknowledges imperfect role models, and shares that she and her partner chose to "grow together."

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I believed that I did not need a man. And it was very, very hard for me to be with a man because I didn't need them, and I didn't have the best example. I thought I could do everything on my own. I know a lot of young women here are going through the same thing in business. I know that they feel like, hey, you know what? He doesn't live up to me, like, I can do so much better. I don't need the man. And I had to make a decision in life that I had to understand that, hey, nobody's ever going to be enough for me. I'm going to have to figure it out. And we decided to grow together.