Walking into a room full of people, who you don’t feel like you belong with, can be a frightening experience. That’s what Jill Goldenziel felt when she walked into a room full of men dressed in camouflage on her first day as a professor at Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College. Prior to this moment, Jill had no military experience. In this episode, she tackles the topic of shattering gender roles while in a leadership position. Listen in to hear how you can harness the power of your purpose and discover the tactics ceiling breakers have used to find success.

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Episode Takeaways:
-Realizing that leadership has no gender
-Keeping a team mindset
-Advice for harnessing empowerment when walking into a highly male-dominated environment
-Eliminating the gender lens

Quotes we Keep in Mind:
“My gender doesn’t matter much on a day to day basis because I’m just part of the team”

“In the marine corps, you are a team. Trust is assumed and you can’t function without trusting the people that you’re working with”

“When you’re stuck in a room of people for a week in a windowless room going through PowerPoint after PowerPoint, you can’t help but have some kind of shared bond and begin breaking barriers.”

“A lot of what we know about gender can easily lead to self-limiting beliefs”
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