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In today’s session on managing your professional and personal life, Pat Mitchell discussed some of the ways that women fail themselves. In one example, she told the story of a powerful female studio executive who struggled with her leadership position and ultimately lost the job. Mitchell remarked how the executive’s loss of her job meant a lost opportunity to tell positive stories about women in the business environment through entertainment media. Mitchell said, ”Every time a woman a fails, another one of us is hurt or held back. Another door is closed.”

I told a story to a friend on Saturday where I repeated a joke about a woman getting lost while driving. At the time, I immediately felt this sense of regret, though I didn’t take the time to explore it. Now I do. It perpetuated a cultural myth.

We have a responsibility as women to perpetuate the right stories – the positive stories. To bring to light the qualities we have that can bring change to the world.