Jo welcomes the brilliant Deborah B Williams to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Deborah is someone who creates awareness around the big problems we face in society. But she doesn’t just talk about them, she doesn’t even just create awareness around them; she creates ACTION. Action which took her on a journey to become the founder and CEO of The Women’s Association.

Topics covered:
- Growing up in a bubble of happiness that partially helped deflect racism

- The importance of someone helping you picture your dreams

- Being able to fail and not live in that failure

- Hitting rock bottom and then choosing to live intentionally, with purpose

- Being told you can’t

- Then creating an organization to help stop other women be told they can’t

- The Women’s Association - helping remove the barriers to women’s dreams

- How society needs to play a role in closing the aspiration gap for girls

- The Executive Challenge: Giving teenage girls access to the workplace

- The Cannes Challenge - back by popular demand - for 18-30yr old women

- 56 Black Men - being part of a project to challenge racist stereotypes

- Knowing there’s a long way to go but finding fuel in real women’s stories

- Choosing to drive change rather than just exist in a biased system

- Social media: the no. 1 thing young girls site as impacting their confidence

- Project Phoenix - tackling the confidence barrier by allowing self-discovery

- Being intentional and consistent - and human - when it comes to DE&I

- Taking pride in helping others

- Deborah’s Doggy Bag of advice

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