Speaker 1: Well. Friday's US Labor reports showed women driving gains in
Speaker 1: the month of July, with a number of employed women
Speaker 1: rising three hundred twenty seven thousand last month, accounting for
Speaker 1: more than half of the five hundred twenty eight thousand
Speaker 1: increase in overall paerils the female labor force growing while
Speaker 1: it shrank for the fourth month for men. So with
Speaker 1: this in mind, we've got a really great guest coming up,
Speaker 1: we welcome Peggy Sullivan. She's found in President If She Can.
Speaker 1: It's a membership based, not for profit organization where members
Speaker 1: help one another when it comes to personal and professional development.
Speaker 1: She joins us on the phone from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Peggy,
Speaker 1: good to have you here on Bloomberg Business Week. First
Speaker 1: of all, for those who might not know, tell us
Speaker 1: a little about your organization, how it works. The mission
Speaker 1: sure absolutely. Our mission is to help women grow, thrive,
Speaker 1: and find her vibe. It's just really hard being a
Speaker 1: woman these days. We wear a lot of roles and responsibilities,
Speaker 1: and to have an organization that has your back is
Speaker 1: really really important no matter what your needs are. Because,
Speaker 1: let's face it, today, you know women are diverse. We
Speaker 1: have diversifying needs, and you need some support from every
Speaker 1: which way direction. And so she Can was founded about
Speaker 1: four years ago to help women really step into their power.
Speaker 1: And we do that by giving them events, by giving
Speaker 1: them coaching, by giving them unconditional support. You know, for example,
Speaker 1: one of our our women UM was a relative in
Speaker 1: the Buffalo shooting and it was just such a horrible
Speaker 1: tragic thing. But to watch the community get together and
Speaker 1: to make dinners and start a fun I mean, women
Speaker 1: need this. We need a community that has our back unconditionally,
Speaker 1: and and that's what she Can does. Um. We grow,
Speaker 1: we learn, we thrive, and we vibe thriving and vibing.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to do. But I am curious,
Speaker 1: so is she Can? Is it mostly focus on the
Speaker 1: professional aspect of you know, a women's life or to
Speaker 1: the question as well, great question. I'm a firm believer
Speaker 1: that you really need all three sides of your life
Speaker 1: to be going, um well, to really have meaning and
Speaker 1: enjoyment and true happiness. And what do I mean by
Speaker 1: those three sides? Well, of course there's a professional life,
Speaker 1: but there's also your personal life, your health, your well being,
Speaker 1: and your mindset. And she can really focuses in on
Speaker 1: both other things, because having one without the other, it
Speaker 1: just doesn't work. And so we really get the fact
Speaker 1: that it's a lot more than professional development. It's health,
Speaker 1: it's wellness, it's a positive mindset, it's it's your values,
Speaker 1: getting back to your values. Well, that's interesting and I'm curious,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of who can be a member,
Speaker 1: what does it mean to be a member? Who can
Speaker 1: be a member? Everybody in an anybody can be a
Speaker 1: member UM. We are a membership based organization. UM are
Speaker 1: The cost to become a membership is really negligent, and
Speaker 1: we also UM provide a lot of scholarships and right
Speaker 1: now we are really growing nationally and a lot of
Speaker 1: women are tapping into our virtual resources, which has been
Speaker 1: really fun to watch, you know, people on the West
Speaker 1: Coast and people on the East Coast and even people
Speaker 1: across the country coming together to talk about their challenges
Speaker 1: and more importantly, how do resolve them? How big is
Speaker 1: your membership? Our our membership, we've put a couple of
Speaker 1: thousand people through our programs and we're growing all the time.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we're about three and a half years
Speaker 1: old and so UM you know, so we're growing up.
Speaker 1: We're growing all the time, and so tell us, if
Speaker 1: I'm a new member, what can I expect? What does
Speaker 1: this um you know, this sort of this program look
Speaker 1: like to me? Sure, well, I think one thing that
Speaker 1: really makes us unique from other women's organizations is we
Speaker 1: do a lot of market research. Every six months, we
Speaker 1: take a step back and we try to really understand
Speaker 1: what are women's challenges, what are her interests, what what
Speaker 1: does she want to learn and grow more about, what
Speaker 1: time of day works for her? And we're constantly asking
Speaker 1: those questions. You know, it's interesting because over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, one of the biggest challenges that women
Speaker 1: across the world has been saying is I don't have
Speaker 1: time for what's important to me. And so we develop events, programming, techniques,
Speaker 1: things to really solve women's problems. Somebody all of the
Speaker 1: sun is unemployed and they need help networking, We're there
Speaker 1: to support them, you know, somebody's having problems with work
Speaker 1: life balance, were there to help them find an idea.
Speaker 1: Right now, what a lot of women are really grappling
Speaker 1: with is just the overall level of happiness and the
Speaker 1: fact that there is just no time for them left
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's all about every
Speaker 1: bookyhouse and how how do you change that paradigm, and
Speaker 1: how do you make self care priority and how do
Speaker 1: you find times for the things that really help you
Speaker 1: thrive and and help you be be interested and satisfied
Speaker 1: and just and really enjoy what you're what you're doing.
Speaker 1: So I really didn't answer your question, but I guess
Speaker 1: what can they look forward to? Um? We we offer
Speaker 1: about twenty events on a monthly basis that focus on
Speaker 1: all these topics that that we research and find out
Speaker 1: that women need. But in addition to that, we also
Speaker 1: have chapters in different cities, and we also have annual
Speaker 1: conferences where we get together and we we talk about challenges,
Speaker 1: but more important le solutions. UM. That's what makes she
Speaker 1: Can really different is we're focused on really authenticity and
Speaker 1: standing up and saying that, yeah, the challenges we have
Speaker 1: are are real and and let's try to resolve them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I bet there's a lot of women who are listening
Speaker 1: who are nodding their head and can certainly relate. Peggy,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Peggy Sullivan. She's found in president
Speaker 1: if she can joining us on the phone from Florida,