Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

we’ve been told for so long how we should show up

8 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short interview excerpt from a YouTube video by Kelly Alhooie ("we’ve been told for so long how we should show up") discussing barriers that hold back young female entrepreneurs. The speaker argues societal conditioning values women for appearance and non-monetary traits, distracts from business-building, and creates fear of being boxed into single identities promoted on social media; she suggests women can embody multiple roles rather than one narrow label.

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What would you say then is the biggest thing that is holding back young female entrepreneurs today?
I think that women have traditionally been conditioned by society to be valued for other things, not making money. Like, one thing that I will never be able to rid myself of is that I am valued for also how I look. Women have, if they want to make more money and build a business, they also have something other things that take their attention. The second piece to it is the fear of being put into one of these boxes. Like, I'm a single female entrepreneur, like, making money my own. Like, then I see, like, I'm a businesswoman. I'm all about my business, and I'm this and I'm that. I think that most women just believe that they have to fit in a box of one of these things. You're either this girl, this girl, this girl, or this girl that fits in these boxes that you see on social media. It's like you could be a little bit of all those things.