It’s Okay To Be “Hungry”

In the past few months I’ve tried to speak about something a few times, something that I feel is so incredibly important for women to hear, but each time I’ve done it I felt it was a flop… that it wasn’t really received or was misunderstood.

So I’m gonna try this again, because I know there are women out there who need to hear this right now, and that it will soothe an ancient wound in them, and for that, I’m willing to be misunderstood.

The thing I was trying to speak about was basically a push back against some very popular current entrepreneurial culture narratives that tell women business owners to: “Just focus on how you can serve and the rest will work itself out” or “don’t focus on the money, focus on how you can give” or “just come from a place of service and the universe will catch you” and other similar themes.

To be frank, these lines were pissing me off. They seemed good, and right, and kind, but something about them stunk to me. Something felt shitty and just OFF, and for a long time I couldn’t put my finger on it… until I did.

The thing that pisses me off about these quotes is that they are rooted in the history of oppression that those very women are trying so hard right now to shake off, and although they are not INTENDED to do so, when it comes right down to it, it is exactly these narratives that tell women…