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 different topics,
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we can create a group chat if you'll want,
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or when I post different topics,
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you're welcome to comment,
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discuss things in the comments.
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And maybe we can learn things from each other.
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Give me feedback on what you want to learn about, what you want to talk about.
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If you have something that you've gone through, let's discuss it.
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And that really is what I want to try to...
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build with everyone here.
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I know nothing about medicine.
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The only thing I know is based on my own experience.
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So if I add something here,
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it's just based on what I've learned,
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on the mistakes I made and not advocating for myself correctly or not knowing that
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I should be advocating for myself correctly.
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And the years that I went through of difficulty in dealing with that and how long
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it took me to recover afterwards,
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These are the kinds of things I want people to share because people don't always
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expect to enter perimenopause when they're in their mid thirties,
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but it happens.
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And there are all these other things that we can talk about.
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We can talk about relationships.
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We can talk about fitness.
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We can talk about parenting.
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If you've got kids, if you can't hear the dog snoring, it's a miracle.
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I just talk about divorce.
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People go through all these things
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It would be so nice to have a place where women can talk openly and not feel like
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what they're discussing is taboo.
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And so give feedback and let's all learn together.
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But I wanted to make this video just to explain to you exactly what I'm trying to
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accomplish right now,
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what my goal is,
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and see how we can move forward.
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So anyway, I'm Erika.
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Nice to meet you.
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And I hope that we have lots of opportunities to talk about things down the road.
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