How Sarah Palin may Change American Women Business Owners

Sarah Palin electrified the crowd at the RNC Wednesday night in St. Paul. Men cheered and laughed at the snipes and jokes and GOP women looked up enthralled with this new post-feminist woman with unshakeable confidence who calls herself “a hockey mom” and “a pitbull” and then sticks it to the competition.

I saw her as a totally new kind of woman. So many of us talk about how important it is for us to become more empowered. She has no need to talk about it – she is empowered. She doesn’t talk about needing equal rights – she believes she’s there. And what’s your problem if you don’t feel equal or if you feel men have an edge? She doesn’t. She’s busted down the doors of the “old boys network” while Hillary Clinton spent years trying to figure out how to get in There isn’t a “victim” or “martyr” bone in her body. She threw down the gauntlet to the Democrats and has basically said, “Bring it on, boys!”

This is a woman who grew up hunting and fishing before school and her parents told her, “You can be anything you want in life.” Palin is the new empowered woman we’ve been talking about for the last couple decades.

Personally, I’m not in agreement with her uber-conservative points of view – or her lack of experience IMHO to be VP – but I was in amazement at her super confidence.

I think millions of conservative and independent women may have shifted their sense of a role model for a woman Wednesday night from Oprah Winfrey or even Hillary Clinton to Sarah Palin. By comparison, Winfrey and Clinton come across as more of the old-style feminist – it’s like they’re still trying to prove to us their worth. Palin owns it. She doesn’t come from money but she definitely feels entitled.

* Do you think Palin has a tough time asking for what she wants?

* Do you think she feels nervous about picking up the phone and calling someone she met that might be a good lead?

* Do you think she has thoughts of “Maybe I can’t handle it” or “I don’t deserve it?”

* Do you think she lets men (or another woman) step ahead while she steps behind?

* If Palin was a business owner do you think she would undercharge for her products services or charge the going rate because she knows she’s good?

Maybe I’m crazy but I have a feeling that this new super confident woman – whether she becomes the first American woman VP in the US or not – is going to lead the way at least in showing US women an example of a woman who is supremely confident and lives an exciting, fulfilling and prosperous life. A lot of women are already saying they see Palin as the example of the woman who has it all. The career, the good looking husband, the kids.

Did you watch her speech? What did you think (not so much about the political points of view but about the person)? How did you feel about her as a woman? Would she be someone you’d want to get together with for lunch? Have as a boss? Or an employee? A customer or client in your business? Or not at all?

All the best,

Denise Michaels
Author, “Testosterone-Free Marketing”

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