SUMMIT SESSIONS
Paula Stone Williams
Be True To Who You Are
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Hear Paula’s insights into what being a woman means to her after coming out as a transgender woman and stepping into authenticity
Discover some of the inequities that women are still up against and what we can do about them
Learn how your living authentically can change a society
About Paula Stone Williams
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I have worked at two different places with a female alpha boss and I am someone who speaks out and I’m not afraid to participate and contribute. But sadly both female alpha bosses werent willing to listen and put me down or Rolled their eyes or just plain ignored what I was sharing. I’m wondering if you feel that sometimes women think they need to be like men, and that as leaders we are often still afraid our more feminine and compassionate side? .
You’re getting it right Girlfriend! Thanks for your love and encouragement 🙂
Thank you so much for your inspiring, informative talk.
An inspiration to humanity!
Simply grateful for your contribution to the world and to women.
You are truly an inspiration living your journey (previous one and current one) with authenticity, humbleness, compassion and true love.
I am glad that you had the courage to choose to be who you really are. I am a therapist who wants to ease people’s pain and love to listen to their stories too, thank you for sharing yours.
Thank you ?
What an absolutely inspiring discussion! Thank you
Watching this was an important transition for me — into realizing what insight comes from knowing both sides, gender-wise. I had been thinking too narrowly about ‘credentialism’ being a major cause of my being marginalized. I allowed myself to feel a bit crazy and over-inflated as I commonly feel I have answers and solutions to Big Problems but as an artist (!!) in a science community (!!) and having been written up in the most prestigious science journal in the world (“Nature”) — I still am not heard. If I might have the best most workable ideas, if I were loved, I’d be heard, but instead I have become the enemy. Because an enemy is need to fortify the walls of the institutions around me who suffer in their own familiar self-perpetuating soup. How sad.
But not sad for me because your talk has been a refreshing catalyst to my enlightenment. You are beautiful, Paula Stone Williams.
Just wow❤️ So true and inspiring!
Arwa said it perfectly…what can I add? Paula, your light shines bright! You are a true feminist, an authentic, articulate, wise woman. Would that you lived nearby and would that we could take walks and chat. I am inspired and in awe of your strength and your compassion…Please continue to share and shine light on humanity. Please continue to understand, we are all star dust. Your perspective is a treasure.
You got it right!? thank you from one being to another. It was a delight to listen to you, and meet you.
Thank you Paula and Hannah, this was great and really inspired me!!
Absolutely delighted… Thanks very much for this empowering conversation. Kudos for your work, Paula!!! Way to go. Sending you love, hugs and blessings galore. Godspeed!
Thank you for your courage, knowledge and wisdom! Blessings!
Moved, inspired and ready to move forward. Everyone should listen to this.
Thank you Paula. My heart is very full right now. Thank you very much for your courage, your authenticity and your guidance.
Wonderful, illuminating…….Paula of course amazing but also appreciate Hanna’s calm deep interview style.
Yes, perfectly stated. I also appreciated Hanna’s calm deep interview style. Thank you, Mary. Paula, you are a brave gift to the world.
It is not easy for me to put into words, at the moment, as to what I feel, after listening to this interview, but what I do know, is that,I am positively inspired.I want to learn more of what Paula has to offer!
Thank you Paula, I agree some spaces more than others women’s approaches can lack of that option of empower other women.
However after more than 30 years working on women’s human rights, living with a woman for more that 10 years, raising 2 daughters , last 2 years full time yoga teacher (where 95% students are women) and moving to a new country where most of our friends and new community is made up of women, the solidarity, the capacity to listen, the empowerment, the care, admiration, acknowledgment, sympathy, attention, entitlement, compassion, caring sense of humor, vibrancy, affect, tender, complicity, intimacy, beauty, sweetness, open space, holding, nurturing, passion, creativity, happiness and love that I have received from them has allowed me to be where I am now. After years of campaigning (and still more to do!) and I agree with Paula 100% but let’s not forget all that we have received and we will do as another option to move forward for a better world for women and girls to come. Warmly, Erika
So heart touching, heart opening, heart breaking and inspiring all at once. Paula spoke with so much authenticity and commitment to the truth of her own lived experience. A big hug to her and many blessings.
Wow! Thank you!
Oh my. You gave up your male white privilege
Wow! You are making a big difference Paula! You are the difference! A most inspiring awestruck talk and words of deep wisdom and insight! Thank you Paula and thank you WISE WOMEN for putting together this summit! I have been craving this more than i realized!
Is interesting how woman are not reaspecting other woman and interupt a talk is good to get aware of that. Thanks
Thank you so very much Paula! What a blessing you are. I want to meet you and check out Left Hand Church. what an inspiration you are!
Thank you so very much Paula! What a blessing you are. I want to meet you and check out Left Hand Church. what na inspiration you are!
Wow….we will always find the enemy. This talk but home on so many labels. As a Black female i find myself holding back so I won’t be seen as the angry Black bitch. How do you find the balance and get the respect you deserve. And oh yes I have Oh God quite a few times.
I work for a female and a 80% female company. I agree 100% percent we don’t empower one another. Just the opposite jealousy and backstabbing runs rampant starting at the top. i was told by a male that we were going to implement something I was trying to make a point on regardless of what I say.. Rather than argue i excused myself. Knowing in my heart that was best for me and everyone. My CEO said “he probably looked across at that angry Black face.” And she mentioned that in my evaluation. Did I mention I am the only Black female and still there in the capacity of Operations Manager.
Thanks so much for this. But I still wanna slap fool. 🙂