Power is not given to you you have to take it

[Music]

i grew up

with destiny’s child and spice girls

cards

and dancing to britney spears in the

afternoons

i had a wonderful childhood i had tons

of friends

i had a steady home and i was good at

both school

and sports but somehow

i felt misplaced i felt

like a misfit i had such big dreams and

goals for my future self

but i had no one to share it with

you have to be realistic my father said

every time i shared my grand visions and

thoughts with him

and in the media i was portrayed with

female role models

only such as tv stars and pop idols

and at schools i was presented with

various options for my future

lawyer doctor nurse

entrepreneurship wasn’t one of them

looking back i now realize i had no

place or no one to turn to to mirror

myself i still had hope though

i wanted to lead a happy life on my own

terms

experiencing lots of different things

meeting lots of different

people and being an inspiration

i just had no idea what kind of job

that could be i only saw pop idols doing

many different things

but that wasn’t on my to-do list for

career creation for years

i thought i only had two options

either i had to choose one of these

boxes that school presented to me

lawyer doctor etc or i had to be

discovered that someone was going to

come

and discover my amazing talent and just

give me knock on my door and give me the

opportunities

that i wanted but

both of these options seemed rather

impossible

and not only that there was a catch 22.

i was even scared of my own ambitions

and i was scared of my capabilities and

wants

why couldn’t i just want a regular job

like it seemed like everybody else

wanted and was there even room for me

in this world

i was also so scared of failing

myself that i even didn’t want to try to

find

a solution because what if i try to go

after what i wanted in life

and didn’t succeed what a huge

burden that would be to carry for the

rest

of my life no thanks

why couldn’t just someone come knocking

at my door and discover

my amazing talent well not gonna happen

but during studies some friends of mine

created their own

venture and they asked me to join and as

i was

in university which made me still feel

like

a misfit i decided to join at that time

i hadn’t heard

of the word startup it was back in 2012.

i dove in to the startup community and

met

like-minded people and i had lots of fun

at work i found hope

but still something was

missing where were the people who wanted

to take over the world

in the startup community there was some

rumors about san francisco or silicon

valley being

the place where the future were invented

perhaps that’s the place where i

could belong people called me brave

for quitting my job packing my bag and

just head over to san francisco without

knowing

anyone or any got anything there to do

but to me it felt like i didn’t have a

choice

either i could just end up feeling like

a misfit or

i could just at least try to see if this

were

maybe where i could belong

coming to san francisco i was quickly

amazed

i was met with people who chased and

invented

their dream jobs and not only that but

they

actually believed that they had what it

took

to change and make the world a better

place

and meeting them they also saw

my potential

san francisco was a game changer to me

because all my life i had believed that

someone was going to

come and give me opportunities

give me permission to do what i really

wanted to do

but these people weren’t sitting around

waiting for someone to

give them permission or give them the

opportunities

i realized that i had to give

myself permission i had to

try to believe in myself enough

and allow myself to feel worthy so i

could do the same coming back

i had to take action but

where to start and with what

i felt very overwhelmed but at least i

knew i had to do everything myself

what would make me happy what was i good

at

how can i have the biggest impact and

how could i earn

money on it i realized that

role models had been a very very

important factor in my life

so i wanted to create a platform

every women woman with a dream could

reflect

herself i heard something about

podcasting

that’s more than two years ago and i

thought i’d jump

on the wagon before it became too

popular and power ladies

was born two years later

i now realized that if you set out with

clear goals

and intention and will to achieve

and some patience and continuity

nothing can stop you when i started

power ladies

i had one goal which was to quit my day

job within a year

which i managed but the thing that gives

me the most joy with what i do

is the weekly messages i get from women

who started their own company

or started investing or

asked for a leader position

not i’d not only do this for the women

i still do it for myself

because i need to keep my confidence

level

hi i also learned along the way

that luck is just a myth

the people that are called lucky are the

people who actually

go out create opportunities and seize

opportunities

when they come that are being called

lucky

so luck is a matter of hard work meeting

opportunity and what do all these

hundred plus

successful women have in common that i

have interviewed in my podcast

they don’t sit around and wait

i was being realistic as a child

and there was room for me in this world

i just had to break the barriers that i

and the people around me had set as a

limit

in our brain and i had to make

myself space so my biggest lesson

in life is my message to you today

power is not given to you

you have to take it

you