In The Afterglow
“I felt on FIRE when I got home! So excited and inspired and overflowing with gratitude for a day spent with like-minded and kind women!”
Ya’ll. It’s been 10 days since She Leads and I’m still feeling the afterglow from our time together. The planning committee and I are filled with deep gratitude for the opportunity to gather with every woman who set aside their nagging to-do list and said THIS IS MY DAY TO GROW AND SHINE.
And we did. Together. My opening talk focused on heart-centered leadership—the heart as the seat of courage—and a reminder that you don’t need permission to show up, take up space, and engage from a place of radical vulnerability.
This principle of showing up and shining was embodied in the pitch presentations. It was a joy to witness the creativity, ambition, energy, and courage of the pitch presenters—to be in the room with the presenters and panel experts was to catch the entrepreneurial bug—the undeniable “if I don’t follow this dream I am going to implode” contagion.
In Terri Allred’s closing talk, she asked us all to consider what we will carry forward from She Leads 2024. Besides a renewed hope for our collective future (women in leadership change everything), I am personally carrying forward a commitment to creating more spaces for women to gather together: to dream, to laugh, to strategize, to connect, to hold presence and grace and to give each other a boost to reach as high as the clear blue sky.
A huge thanks to this year’s sponsors for investing in this growing movement. Your generosity and confidence in this work is lighting up hearts and board rooms—where women belong.
AND…Save April 25, 2025 for next year’s She Leads. It’s your sacred day of connection and we cannot wait to incorporate the fantastic feedback from this year. (hint: sleepover, cabins and more intentional opportunities to connect).
In the meantime, shine on, sister.
- Katrina
p.s. Special thank you to Aimee Jobe for her extraordinary artistry in design and photography, we are blessed.
