Today's topic is one that I am SO freaking passionate about - leadership.

And more specifically, I want to talk about 6 reasons why mothers make the best damn leaders (and entrepreneurs, and professionals). 

Let me begin by noting that there are well over 6 reasons why mothers are amazing in these categories, but I wanted to combine and dial-down the top reasons coming through for me right now. 

1. We have an unfuckwithable source of strength in us that we get to meet and greet when we become a mother. It’s animalistic. I noticed my own during both of my labors (which were each traumatic as many of yours were). By the time I had to push I was hanging on by a freaking thread and I didn’t think I would be able to, but something suddenly switched. I tapped into some animalistic and spiritual shit that had me pushing hard and fast. And for those of us who didn’t experience this within labor, maybe you’ve tapped into your own animalistic strength when you’ve been awake for 3 days straight and are entirely brain-dead and have to get up and do it again on the 4th day. Or maybe you’re seeing it in this season of summer while all of the children are needing to be entertained and you’re exhausted but you are still showing up again and again. 

becoming a mother exposes us to a source of strength that is indescribable. we have this power within us that we need to leverage and remember we have.

2. We’re intuitive. Nobody wants to talk about this in business and acknowledge this super power. It’s our gut feelings, our inner knowings, our sensing of what’s going on, and our recognition of what’s not being said. It’s my own intuition that guides me, and here’s the thing – you have it too. Sometimes we are disconnected from it because it isn’t acknowledged as the strength that it is, and we have been conditioned to believe that humans are cognitive beings rather than emotional. I call bullshit on the system because we need women who can connect on deep levels and tap into their intuition. We need the empathic gift to be used more frequently. Any key to success is a relationship, and we can’t connect without this gift. No more discrediting it. Tap in with meditation, journaling, slowing down your brain waves, regulating your nervous system, asking yourself “what do I think?” and trusting that thought instead of letting your brain doubt it. You already know the answers. 

3. We are amazing connectors. We bring people together. We are master collaborators. We see what’s not being said and we put it on the table, and that makes us successful. 

4. We are incredible crisis managers. If I myself am caught in a crisis you best believe that I want mothers around me. Whether it’s a car accident, a break-in, our kid being injured, a fight breaking out, or something scary happening in the community – the moms are going to stay calm and make shit happen. We just know what to do and we don’t freak out in the moment. We know how to handle hard things and we know what people need. 

5. We’re time management masters. Sometimes you might not feel like you are, but trust me – you have it. We are constantly juggling even when we don’t realize it. We manage kids, spouses, extracurricular activities, sports, family plans, meals, and so on. If we have free time the level of productivity we can accomplish is unmatched. We have the ability to prioritize and we have perspective. 

We are incredibly resilient, flexible, adaptable, and resourceful. We’re used to having to adjust and we know how to get shit done. 

6. We are willing to do the inner work. I am especially passionate about this right now. In my own story I wasn’t able to reach my potential until I did the deeper healing work, and in my experience women and mothers have been much more open to it. Whether it’s because of wanting to be better mothers and cycle breakers or getting to that level of burn out where something has to change. We are no longer pretending that we don’t have trauma, and we are no longer over-achieving without recognizing it as a trauma response. There’s something in your trauma that manifests as your purpose and translates to your strength. It’s the hard stuff that shows us what we’re really working with. 

our wounds give us the wisdom. 

In summary – we need feminine leaders to co-create new systems that help us thrive. We can do really amazing things in the world and we can do them in new ways. We can tap into our own inner wisdom and gifts to uproot how we’ve been in business.

Whether you’re currently in the work world or not, what you have by nature sets you apart and you are a fabulous leader.

Take care of yourselves and therefore each other!

xo, brooke jean