What About Women Intro Statement

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I'm Erika,

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and I started this because I think we have an opportunity to talk about a lot of

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things.

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It's a hobby.

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I have another job.

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I work in finance.

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But I really wanted to try to open up more of a discussion.

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I don't want to be teaching and instructing all the time.

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I don't feel like I know enough about things to be telling people how things work.

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The only thing that I'm able to share are my own experiences.

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But...

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More than that,

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I think that often we're taught not to talk about health,

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not to talk about mental health,

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not to ask questions.

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How many of you have been to the doctor and the doctor has said, oh, have you been on WebMD?

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You know, where they kind of dismiss whatever you come in with.

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And I think that's wrong.

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And I think that if we have more discussions,

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if we stop treating some of these things like taboo,

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if we stop treating some of these things like challenging topics,

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then we can open up discussions and help each other,

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not just with health and mental health,

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but with physical fitness,

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with aging,

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with relationships,

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with maybe giving ourselves a little bit more forgiveness and grace.

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At the end of the day, parenting challenges.

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If you have kids,

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relationship challenges,

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whether you're single or married,

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I think that having that kind of community and having discussions around it is

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really helpful.

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And I think that what's not helpful is when people are taught that they shouldn't

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be talking about things.

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I think that there are influencers that will talk to you about traveling and

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they'll talk to you about the clothes that you wear or the things that you should

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eat or the way you should work out.

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And all of it is really

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clean and sanitized and perfect.

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And it's more an image that's trying to sell you a lifestyle brand more than it is

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an authentic discussion.

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So I want to talk about all these topics like perimenopause and the horrible symptoms of

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Um,

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of all the things that women go through,

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because I think it just is like a brick wall when you slam into it sometimes.

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And if we can all ready each other by sharing our experiences for all the things

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that we encounter in life,

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then maybe we'll all be better off for it.

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You know?

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When I was in junior high,

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middle school,

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I definitely made some poor makeup decisions,

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might have worn the wrong lipstick shade.

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I think at one point in time, I bought some blue mascara because I thought that would be cute.

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I had a haircut one time that really looked like a mushroom,

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which is not ideal with a strong jawline.

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Don't get me wrong, the girl did a great haircut.

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I chose a haircut that wasn't really meant for my head shape.

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And I had a friend that called me mushroom head for a while.

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Now you look at girls that are the same age and they look better than I looked even

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into my 20s because they have influencers that help them with their aesthetic,

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that teach them how to do makeup.

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They're more on trends with their fashion.

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And my thought is,

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why can't we have a better womanhood by sharing the same kind of quality tips with

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each other and learning from each other?

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So my goal is really to drag everyone from over to Substack where everything is

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open and it's free because this is just a hobby.

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And for us just to have a dialogue around diff