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## Video: FIRSTS | The Motivations

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_Published 2017-09-06. Selena Gomez, Shonda Rhimes and 12 other women on how they stay inspired._


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## Transcript

You have this one moment in time to be fully who you are. To be everything you can possible be. Know your power. Half the battle is showing up. Strength doesn't mean that you have to put on a facade. I think strength is being vulnerable. [ MUSIC ] People will look at you and they'll try and define you. Whether you're a woman, whether you're young. But people can only do that if you let them. And so I always viewed my job as defining myself. If we are in a meeting, we're there for a reason. If you are only there not speaking, you kind of create the image- Impression that you're not prepared to be there.

You need to participate and you need to know what you're talking about. You can ask a man to do a job that he's never been qualified to do and he will raise his hand and say absolutely, I will do that job. Women always say I'm not sure if I'm ready yet, I need more experience. I don't know necessarily know that there's anything wrong with being more cautious and careful. Why have we come to decide that being brush and overly aggressive should be the way we are. But, we should also know that we are not going to feel any wiser or any more ready in ten years than we did ten years ago. So we might as well just leap.

There is a lot of frustration of my gosh, it's really hard because of the gender. What are you gonna do about that? Just not do it? If you wanna do something, you just do it and then hope that people catch up to you. [ MUSIC ] For girls that are gonna play in little league Anything could happen. You could be up by ten runs and you can lose the game. So stay focused, make sure you play as a team, and hopefully you hit a home run, cuz no girl's ever hit a home run. And I'll be cheering for you. You'll never make everyone happy, so you'll just have to be exactly who it is that you are. And at least know that you've been true to yourself.

I was a very Passive young woman, and I let everybody in the world tell me what to do. I've finally learned that I had value. I actually had value, but what a hard- earned lesson that was. Who knew I would be here? But it all started with folks that thought I had a good attitude that put me in places that challenged me and then provided me opportunities. You often don't realize people want you to succeed and the other thing is I think it's not too bad to have [ UNKNOWN ] equation tensity doing One thing or the other. Meryl Streep once said, every successful woman's life has its' ebbs and flows.

Don't let anybody trivialize how you have spent your years. All of them have contributed to making a very unique and special person who can make a very unique and special contribution. And Just take joy. Don't let anyone discourage you from that thing that you love the most. [ MUSIC ]

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