Post by the Scribe on Nov 14, 2021 8:41:30 GMT
Women Behaving Courageously: 2 ‘Unintentional’ Warrior Women
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Ann Andrews CSP
Author, Speaker, Profiler, Life Member NSANZ
Published Oct 18, 2021
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Linda Ronstadt was born and raised on a 10-acre ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Her father was a wealthy machinery merchant and her mother was the daughter of Lloyd Groff Copeman, famous inventor and holder of 700 patents. He is credited with developing the early toaster, the first electric stove and an early form of the microwave oven.
Ronstadt has had a prolific singing career and amassed numerous awards, but as she got older, she was diagnosed with a degenerative form of palsy that was already affecting her throat and ability to sing.
The reason I’ve included her in this story of warrior women isn’t that she has been a prolific activist; she has actually had a fairly behind-the-scenes life and career, however, at some moment in time when an opportunity occurs for any of us, she is the living example of literally ‘finding your voice and seizing the moment’.
Ronstadt was attending an event where she and Sally Field were being honoured. After the event she said that she had had no intention of mentioning Trump or saying anything about the current administration, however, during her acceptance speech she said that, in her opinion, we were now living in an era when the idea of truth was being challenged.
Half the audience applauded half the audience stayed silent.
Mike Pompeo was a guest speaker at the event and very dangerously asked, ‘When will I be loved?’, a reference to a Ronstadt hit. Her response from the stage:
‘When you stop enabling Trump.’ Kapow!
Ronstadt’s moment of truth.
‘We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends, the precariousness of romantic love, the difference between the love you give to the living and the love you give to the dead, the bitterness of a lost love remembered, and the long, steady love you keep for good.’ Linda Ronstadt, Simple Dreams: A musical memoir
Elissa Slotkin is possibly a warrior you’ve never heard of. She is a former CIA analyst and little-known Democratic senator who was one of that tidal wave of women who stepped forward and won selection in the 2018 American mid-term elections. A wave that was clearly a resistance movement to a president and a Republican party that had made it clear they had little respect for women. She won her seat against all the odds in what had traditionally been a Republican seat.
At a fateful town hall meeting in Michigan, just days before the House was due to vote on impeaching Donald Trump, she stood in front of 400 vocal and partisan constituents to tell them why she was voting to impeach Trump.
She had bravely pre-announced her decision and by doing that she ensured a full house of people attending. She not only set the scene for a very loud and vocal reaction but could have attracted some of the more fringe people: people who have shown they are not afraid of becoming violent and who support Trump no matter what.
Slotkin told the crowd that she had gone home for the weekend to go over all aspects of the evidence to ensure she was making her decision based on facts and not emotion. Ultimately she decided that Donald Trump had crossed a line by inviting a foreign government (Ukraine) to dig up dirt on his political rival, Joe Biden.
She could have done what many of her colleagues on both sides of the political spectrum were doing. She could have considered only her own political survival rather than considering the future of the country. She chose country. She told the people of Michigan what she was going to do and why.
Some yelled and abused her while others stood and cheered. Slotkin voted with her conscience; she stood in her ‘truth’ and was 100% prepared to accept the consequences of her decision.
‘A leader is someone who has the clarity to know the right things to do, the confidence to know when she is wrong and the courage to do the right things even when it’s hard.’ Darcy Eikenber
Neither of these women set out to be a warrior, but for each of them a moment arrived where NOT saying what they needed to say simply wasn’t an option. In a world of political correctness, we absolutely need brave people to step forward to say ‘I don’t agree with this’, or ‘This doesn’t sit well with me’. By doing so it gives others the opportunity and the courage to do the same.
And so I have to leave the final word to Suzanne Collins ‘Mockinjay’ who said:
‘I think you still have no idea the effect you can have.’
Be brave as you go about your day.
You can grab a free electronic copy of the book right here because if I can inspire you to be more, do more and rock a boat, then I will be delighted. If you decide NOT to rock any boats, that’s OK also, if the book simply inspires you then it has done it’s job.
www.annandrews.co.nz/women-behaving-courageously/
Ann Andrews, CSP. Author, speaker, profiler, Life Member PSANZ
Author of:
Did I Really Employ You?
annandrews.co.nz/product/did-i-really-employ-you/
Lessons in leadership: 50 ways to avoid falling into the ‘Trump’ trap
leadersbehavingbadly.co.nz/
Leaders Behaving Badly: What happens when ordinary people show up, stand up and speak up
leadersbehavingbadly.co.nz/
My Dear Franchisees
www.annandrews.co.nz/
Women Behaving Courageously: How gutsy women, young and old, are transforming the world
www.amazon.com/dp/B08CD6CYXW/
www.annandrews.co.nz
www.annandrews.co.nz/
www.linkedin.com/pulse/women-behaving-courageously-2-unintentional-warrior-ann-andrews-csp
Ann Andrews CSP
Author, Speaker, Profiler, Life Member NSANZ
Published Oct 18, 2021
+ Follow
Linda Ronstadt was born and raised on a 10-acre ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Her father was a wealthy machinery merchant and her mother was the daughter of Lloyd Groff Copeman, famous inventor and holder of 700 patents. He is credited with developing the early toaster, the first electric stove and an early form of the microwave oven.
Ronstadt has had a prolific singing career and amassed numerous awards, but as she got older, she was diagnosed with a degenerative form of palsy that was already affecting her throat and ability to sing.
The reason I’ve included her in this story of warrior women isn’t that she has been a prolific activist; she has actually had a fairly behind-the-scenes life and career, however, at some moment in time when an opportunity occurs for any of us, she is the living example of literally ‘finding your voice and seizing the moment’.
Ronstadt was attending an event where she and Sally Field were being honoured. After the event she said that she had had no intention of mentioning Trump or saying anything about the current administration, however, during her acceptance speech she said that, in her opinion, we were now living in an era when the idea of truth was being challenged.
Half the audience applauded half the audience stayed silent.
Mike Pompeo was a guest speaker at the event and very dangerously asked, ‘When will I be loved?’, a reference to a Ronstadt hit. Her response from the stage:
‘When you stop enabling Trump.’ Kapow!
Ronstadt’s moment of truth.
‘We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends, the precariousness of romantic love, the difference between the love you give to the living and the love you give to the dead, the bitterness of a lost love remembered, and the long, steady love you keep for good.’ Linda Ronstadt, Simple Dreams: A musical memoir
Elissa Slotkin is possibly a warrior you’ve never heard of. She is a former CIA analyst and little-known Democratic senator who was one of that tidal wave of women who stepped forward and won selection in the 2018 American mid-term elections. A wave that was clearly a resistance movement to a president and a Republican party that had made it clear they had little respect for women. She won her seat against all the odds in what had traditionally been a Republican seat.
At a fateful town hall meeting in Michigan, just days before the House was due to vote on impeaching Donald Trump, she stood in front of 400 vocal and partisan constituents to tell them why she was voting to impeach Trump.
She had bravely pre-announced her decision and by doing that she ensured a full house of people attending. She not only set the scene for a very loud and vocal reaction but could have attracted some of the more fringe people: people who have shown they are not afraid of becoming violent and who support Trump no matter what.
Slotkin told the crowd that she had gone home for the weekend to go over all aspects of the evidence to ensure she was making her decision based on facts and not emotion. Ultimately she decided that Donald Trump had crossed a line by inviting a foreign government (Ukraine) to dig up dirt on his political rival, Joe Biden.
She could have done what many of her colleagues on both sides of the political spectrum were doing. She could have considered only her own political survival rather than considering the future of the country. She chose country. She told the people of Michigan what she was going to do and why.
Some yelled and abused her while others stood and cheered. Slotkin voted with her conscience; she stood in her ‘truth’ and was 100% prepared to accept the consequences of her decision.
‘A leader is someone who has the clarity to know the right things to do, the confidence to know when she is wrong and the courage to do the right things even when it’s hard.’ Darcy Eikenber
Neither of these women set out to be a warrior, but for each of them a moment arrived where NOT saying what they needed to say simply wasn’t an option. In a world of political correctness, we absolutely need brave people to step forward to say ‘I don’t agree with this’, or ‘This doesn’t sit well with me’. By doing so it gives others the opportunity and the courage to do the same.
And so I have to leave the final word to Suzanne Collins ‘Mockinjay’ who said:
‘I think you still have no idea the effect you can have.’
Be brave as you go about your day.
You can grab a free electronic copy of the book right here because if I can inspire you to be more, do more and rock a boat, then I will be delighted. If you decide NOT to rock any boats, that’s OK also, if the book simply inspires you then it has done it’s job.
www.annandrews.co.nz/women-behaving-courageously/
Ann Andrews, CSP. Author, speaker, profiler, Life Member PSANZ
Author of:
Did I Really Employ You?
annandrews.co.nz/product/did-i-really-employ-you/
Lessons in leadership: 50 ways to avoid falling into the ‘Trump’ trap
leadersbehavingbadly.co.nz/
Leaders Behaving Badly: What happens when ordinary people show up, stand up and speak up
leadersbehavingbadly.co.nz/
My Dear Franchisees
www.annandrews.co.nz/
Women Behaving Courageously: How gutsy women, young and old, are transforming the world
www.amazon.com/dp/B08CD6CYXW/
www.annandrews.co.nz
www.annandrews.co.nz/