How do you do feminism in your business?
How do you run a thriving, profitable business while living your feminist anti-oppression values?
That's the question we're tackling today.
I'll give one small example of how feminism has played out in my business: the progression of images of myself I have put out over the last 10 years.
I've had my photos done 4 times, 5 if you include the time my wife took a bunch of photos of me because I just really needed some new photos.
For the first couple of photo shoots, I was focused on getting "good" photos taken.
That meant kind of trying to look "pretty" and also relatable.
without realizing it, I was asking my photographer to package me the way I'd seen other successful coaches being packaged: feminine, smiling, and in pink.
The last time I got my photos taken, I asked my photographer, Sarah Deragon to co-create something more interesting and less expected. I asked her to help me bring out some more masculine energy, to NOT focus on making me look "pretty" and to play with the images in a more powerful way.
We got out boxing gloves. We had me in a flight suit, then in blazers, in fedoras, with no attempt to make me look younger than I look.
Images are just one place where my feminist values come up, and it's where we start with my guest Kelly Diels, a writer and feminist marketing consultant who works with culture makers.
YOU are a culture maker, and I'm so excited to share this conversation with you.
Here's some of what we talked about:
Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/132
