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Leader as Servant with Danielle Harvey | Episode #363 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your Life Count.
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I'm your host, Doctor Gloria. Gloria Burgess, international leadership expert and
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trusted adviser. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make your Life Count. I'm so
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delighted that you joined me today. I want to give a big thank you
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and shout out to all of you listening around the world. I'm delighted and
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so grateful that you tuned in today. I hope you're enjoying a fabulous day
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and that you're having a fantastic week, because you know what, in the
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grand song of the universe, life is very very short. It's short,
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sweet and very precious. So I hope you're making a difference in your own
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life because when you do, you also make a difference in someone else's life.
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Now, a lot of folks want to make their life count for something
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right, and they ask me, doctor Gloria, how do you do that.
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Well, it's really very simple, very simple. You make your life
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count, day by day, step by step, moment by moment, every
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single day. Three sixty five twenty four seven. That's what Legacy Living,
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dr for doctor Dr Gloria Burgess, pH d. Forward slash. Today,
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I want to talk with you about leadership. As you know if you're a
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regular listener, this is a topic that is very close to my heart.
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Today we are going to focus on a leadership journey. Okay, one person's
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leadership journey and how she orchestrates that incredible, life changing leadership journey for others.
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Today I have a very special guest joining me and her name is Danielle
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Harvey Stenson. Now, Danielle was my guest last week, so if you
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missed that episode, be sure to listen to it. Last week we talked
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about work life balance. Danielle shared a little bit about her work and her
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amazing journey to the work that she does now at the University of Southern California
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in her role as Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations. Along the way,
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she shares many many pearls of wisdom about how she thinks about and how to
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actually achieve work life balance. Now that's something we can all use a lot
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more of, right, So who is Danielle Harvey Stenson? As I just
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mentioned, she's a VP of Alumni Relations at USC and in addition to pursuing
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her career, she wears many other hats. Danielle is a mom to six
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children right six. She's also passionate, and she's also a lifelong learner.
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She describes herself as someone who thrives on creativity. To me, she's also
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a very valued and trusted friend, and I'm blessed to count her as one
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of my amazing mentors. If I had to describe Danielle in just a word,
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I would say encourager, Yes, incourager. If I had two words,
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I would also say inspiring. Danielle is a leader who thinks outside of
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the box and is one of the most humble human beings, one of the
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most humble leaders that I know. She makes a difference in her own life
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and in the lives of so many others throughout the world in her work at
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USC. Now. I met Danielle almost ten years ago. She was searching
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for a keynote speaker for one of the alumni conferences at USC. In fact,
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it was the USC Women's Alumni Conference, and at that time I was
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in the process of expanding my reach because I wanted to impact more women leaders.
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Well, when I met Danielle, I just have to tell you,
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when I heard her talk about her work at USC, she was absolutely passionate,
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talk about love. Her enthusiasm was just contagious, and I thought,
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Yes, I'd love to work with this young woman who was truly on a
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mission and on fire about her work. Now, I'm also a USC alum,
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which made it a perfect match. Right now, Danielle has worked at
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USC for sixteen, maybe seventeen years in alumni relations. She has a bachelor's
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degree in education from USC's Rossier School of Education and an executive master's degree in
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leadership from the Sole Price School of Public Policy at USC. As a VP
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for alumni relations. Danielle and her team are responsible two and four about half
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a million people. That's a lot of folks. She and her team provide
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an incredible array of programs and services and events throughout the year, year after
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year. Now, as I just mentioned just a few moments ago, Danielle
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is positive, committed to making an impact on the world, and she has
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a particular interest in making an impact to empower women leaders to transform their world.
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Danielle says that, among others, her mom had an enormous impact on
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her life and has shaped her vision for her work. During my conversation with
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Danielle, you will hear more about her story. You'll also hear about some
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of the people and moments that have shaped and formed her as a person of
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influence, People in moments who have shaped and formed her as a leader,
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all with a particular focus on serving other leaders in many ways. In her
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outlook on life and in her work, Danielle pulls together the many threads of
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what my own life and work are all about. You've heard me talk about
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these threads and themes on this show, right. These are the themes of
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gratitude, authenticity, vulnerability, integrity, generosity, strength, passion, presence,
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hope, creativity, and possibility. We are truly blessed to have Danielle
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as one of our honored guests on this podcast. Can I just tell you
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something. Danielle and I had a fabulous conversation. I'm so excited to have
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this amazing leader with us today. This is going to be a marvelous episode.
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I don't want you to miss a single word of it. So put
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on your walking shoes, grab your earbuds, or if you want to stay
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home, relax in your favorite chair, grab yourself a cup of coffee or
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tea or nice cool glass of water. You are going to have a great
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time and you're also want to take notes today, So all right, get
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ready now. Before I jump into today's episode, I want to take just
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a moment to welcome you. If you're just joining us, I'm your host,
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Doctor Gloria, and this is Legacy Living, Make your Life count.
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I'd like to extend a very special welcome to those of you joining this podcast,
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or if you're joining Talk Network Radio for the very first time. Let
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me tell you something. You are in for a real treat. I'm excited
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to have you listening in today and I'm deeply honored that you've allowed me to
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be part of your day so you can be inspired by ideas and resources to
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make your life count. Today's program is all about one leader's journey and how
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she orchestrates journeys for other leaders. Daniel, I would love to hear about
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the scope of the networks that you support across USC. I know you're responsible
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for various programs and services and events for a huge population, and I'd also
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like to focus in on the Women's Conference because that's that's how you and I
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first connected. And I'd also like to give you some time to maybe share
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about that conference and may be promoted a little bit as well through the through
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the program. Okay, awesome, well, thank you. I can speak
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about the Women's Conference ad nauseum NonStop. If this were a talleson, you
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wouldn't need to book any other speakers. So I'll start with the different networks
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that we have and then go into the Women's Conference. So just to refresh,
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I guess my answer from before about some of the different programs that I'm
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on and our approach to alumni engagement here at USC. It's very important for
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the university to maintain that connection so we have things that we call the Trojan
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family, and that's really the alumni, the parents, the students, the
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whole gamut of anyone connected to or tied to USC. And specifically we also
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say around here, you may be a student for four or five plus years,
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but you're an alum and a Trojan for life. And at USC,
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I will say that is one of the things that convinced me to come and
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be a student here at USC. And I was deciding between other universities,
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but when I got to see that Trojan family and that Trojan connection up close
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and personal, I was blown away and said, yes, sign me up
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right now. So now, as the person responsible for maintaining that connection and
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hoping to cultivate that connection, we're approaching engage in an alumni centric approach.
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So that means, as I shared a little bit earlier, we're trying to
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find ways that alumni will feel connected to the university in a way that is
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personal and meaningful for them. So for some people, if they are very
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connected through their industry or their profession that they've chosen, we have built networks
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around that. And right now we have four of those entertainments, real estate,
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education, and entrepreneurship. And the wonderful thing about the networks is it
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doesn't matter what your major was when you were a student. So you could
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have majored in law as a graduate student, you could have majored in political
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science as an undergraduate student, you could have majored in something like writing or
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directing in the School of Cinematic Arts. But now whatever profession you're in,
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Let's say you're in real estate. So you know, we hear all the
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time, I'm working in a field that I didn't major in, or I'm
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majored in one thing now I'm working in another. I'm one of those people
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I'm majored in education, but now I'm working in alumni relations, which is
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essentially public relations or communications, et cetera. So these networks are allowing alumni
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to break down those barriers or those silos that we have because perhaps let's say
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you went through the Marshall School of Business or the Annenberg School of Communication,
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whatever you're where you started. It's well, I should say it this way.
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It doesn't matter where you start it. It just matters what you care
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about and what you're doing right now. So with those networks we've had them,
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I want to say, for about three or four years now, and
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each one has started at different degrees, but we're starting to see alumni who
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graduated ten, twenty, thirty, forty years ago never had a connect into
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the university before, except you know, they'll get together watch a game with
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some of their classmates. But now they're coming back and going, oh,
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this is an interest to me, this is a value to me. The
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speakers that we bring together, or just the opportunity to network with other Trojans
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in that field has been very valuable to them. Very similarly, we're also
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looking at that lens, not just with professions, but also what are some
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topics or our programs that are or shared interests, how we talk about them
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that are of interest, and that includes our age based program. So let's
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say you're under the age of thirty five and you need career advice. Well,
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the career advice we give an alum who's under the age of thirty five
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versus the career advice we would give to an alum who's over the age of
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fifty is very different. So we also look at where are you in your
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lifespan and how can we curtel or make our programming specific to those needs has
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been very important and now to segue over to the women's conference, we have
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been for many, many years looking at alumni identity. So we have our
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traditional Asian Pacific Alumni, Black Alumni, Latino Alumni Association, and our Lambda
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LGBT alumni associations that have boards, are full blown alumni associations. They have
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advisory councils, they do galas, they do scholarship fundraising, and then they
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also award scholarships from those organizations. Similarly, we have women's groups that fall
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sort of under this category as well as our Alumni Veterans Network that falls under
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this category. And with our women there has been so much talk and so
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much emphasis on feminine based or feminine quality leadership, also needs and interests of
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women. How can we speak directly to them? And this has been very
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important for the university and the Alumni association because just within the last i want
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to say, ten to fifteen years, what used to be a very small
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percentage of our student body has now become the small majority of our student body.
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So our women's student body is just over fifty one percent, and our
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alumni base is mirroring that now as well. So that's really exciting and also
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a reason for us to harve out our programs and really speak to this audience
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in a way that hasn't been done in a number of years. Well,
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thank you. That demographic it sounds like I mean, obviously you're in this
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business, so but my sense from all the all the reading that I do
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is that demographic it's just going to keep trending upwards. Absolutely. Yeah.
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Yeah, I know that you're planning your conference for next March, and as
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I mentioned earlier, you and I actually met through the Women's conference that you
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had invited me to speak there about seven years ago. And I'm just wondering
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if you can tell us why you think that there is such a power in
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these programs, Danielle, and such a hunger for them as well. Yes,
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you know, that is a great question, and I wish I had
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such a short answer for it. I think that as women, there is
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so much power that gets created. And again, I'm a creative person,
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so I'm all about this when we're all in a room together. And Gloria,
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if I could, and you would have to correct me on this quote,
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but one of the first sentences that you ever shared with us in this
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setting at the Women's conference, was that twenty first century women are one of
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the most powerful forces on the planet. And I'm paraphrasing, does it correct
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me if I didn't get that quite right? But those words and that sentiment
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really stuck with me because as we are looking at movements, as we are
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looking at the shift that's happening, you know, definitely within our country,
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within politics, within leadership, within business, people are paying attention to what
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is that powerful source? Are we sourcing it correctly? Are we channeling it
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to our fullest potential and to our fullest benefit? And then are we paying
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attention to it in a way that allows us all to become better? Again,
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I think it just goes to being the human race. Are are we
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maximizing our fullest potential? And I think the answers and people believe, not
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just me, the answer is within you know, that feminine quality force all
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of that. So I personally can't possibly put that, I think into words,
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but just my own feeling is there is something there that we all need
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to pay attention to. Absolutely, And I think you actually did a beautiful
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job of summing that up. I mean, we could we could probably spend
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the whole program, just talking about that one question, Danielle, So thank
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you for your summary. You know, I was in Nigeria last fall and
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I had a wonderful opportunity to spend about maybe half a day with a gal
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who has organized an international women's conference, and she was on the cust of
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celebrating her twentieth year. And one of the things that she talked about,
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I mean, she was kind of you know, we talked about it.
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She was also brainstorming about like what would be the best theme or topic or
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way to kind of just galvanize and pull things together for this twentieth anniversary.
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And you know, one of the things she talked about was what you pointed
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out, and that's that feminine quality, Okay, the feminine quality of leadership.
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And there's something that we have as women that we can't afford to give
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up. I know, over the years that I've been in the business sector,
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in particular in education as well, a lot of women they want they
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want to go along, to get along, and they want to give up
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some of the qualities that they have, particularly you know, so that they
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fit in with the men. And I'm going like, no, no,
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there is such diversity that we can offer when we put ourselves at the table,
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bringing those feminine qualities, those feminine attributes that will be missing if we
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don't bring them to the table. And so, Daniel, I want if
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you can talk to us a little bit about how do you come up with
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your amazing themes for the various conferences I mean to me to kind of build
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over the arc of the ten years that you've had your signature impress on them.
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And so I'm just wondering if you could talk with us a little bit
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about So how do you do that? Thank you? That is a question
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that again I could, I could speak endlessly about it, but I will
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say that and this might be a little too spiritual for some people, So
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forgive me. If you are a person who is in your head, I'm
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going to go into my heart for a second. Oh go there, please.
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So this conference is very near and dear to my heart in a way
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that for me, if I did not get paid to do it, to
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produce it year over year, I would still do it. This is what
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I call a passion project, and so I never approach it to this point.
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I have not approached it as just something else on my to do list.
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So when I am preparing for it, when I am thinking about what
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are we going to talk about at the conference, what's the conversation at the
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conference this year? I am doing that from listening, from having conversations with
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people that I trust, like you, Gloria, We've done that number of
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years, and then also just paying attention to what women that I work with.
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I admire, women that I myself don't understand, but I want to
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know more about. And when I tune into all of those things than the
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conference reveals itself to me. So I know I said I'm creative, but
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this is not something that I feel that I can really take credit for creating.
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I think it's something that just happens when I allow it to flow in
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the way that it is going to flow. So I always say, I
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just get out of the way and let you and let the good work happen.
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And I think, you know, other creative souls would actually describe their
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process very similar, you know, songwriters or poetry. I think this is
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something that is that can be described in a similar way. It happens,
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and it's just my job to be in tune and to listen for and then
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to bring all those wonderful things together. Yes, I totally get what you're
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saying. I totally get it, and uh yeah, thank you. And
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you have to be open and have that sense that you talked about earlier,
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Daniel, that sense of curiosity and discovery and being an open vessel so that
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the ideas can flow in and come through you. Absolutely. I you know,
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it's sunny. I will have conversations with anyone because I never know where
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the inspiration is going to come from. In fact, I was having a
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conversation with a fundraiser. Of all people, right, we typically don't see
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them as being inspirational, but I was inspired by something of fundraisers said in
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a conversation that we were just kind of spinning ideas around. Or she actually
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called me and said, hey, I want to share a few things with
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you. Do you have time? And I said absolutely, I will make
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time. And she was she was talking and I was listening, and I
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let me be honest, sometimes I have to tell myself to put aside my
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judgment. Right, So when you're listening, listening is a very it has
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to be active, and sometimes what we end up doing is waiting for our
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turn to respond, right, waiting for you know, now you're going to
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say something. I'm to say something, So I have to sometimes tell myself
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to shut off and listen and just to your point, be open and receive
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the information without judging. That is a very tough thing to do, but
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as long as we practice it, it's something that we can get better at.
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And it's even something going back to just working with my staff. It's
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something that I've had to even do with my staff people that I'm supervising.
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I have to receive their information, take in their information, and reserve judgment,
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put it, put it all to decide and listen to what they're really
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saying. And again, there are days when I am worse at it than
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I should be, and better at it than i'm that I'm surprised by.
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So in this particular case, it's going back to the women's conference. It
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is important to be inquisitive, to be open, and to receive the information
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until we're ready to pull it all together and then come out with a plan.
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Yes, yes I can. I don't know what your office looks like,
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but I imagine it as a studio, you know, kind of like
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a little artist's attilier where you have these ideas just kind of flowing and going
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and going through you all the time. It seems like, Yeah, I
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wish it was like that. Now you're giving me inspiration. I think I
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may actually move some things around so I can't create. That sounds cool.
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Well, I heard you talk about the conference and you use these words passion
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project, and I know you just spoke to that, Danielle, But is
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there anything more that you want to say about that in terms of why this
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is your why this is your passion project? Absolutely, I again, in
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full disclosure. I was raised by a single mom who was also a creative
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soul, who worked so so hard, sometimes for not a whole lot,
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and that really affected me as a as a young person watching that, and
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I always wanted things to not be so hard for my mother. And so
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when I work on the women's conference, I'm usually thinking about what are those
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things that are going to make life not so hard for the women who are
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out here just trying to make away, you know, be it, you
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know, and not everyone's life is hard. I get that. So it's
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not always about the struggle, but sometimes it is just about bringing women together
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so they can say, oh, are you also going through that well,
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I am going through that. You know, sometimes it's just an AHA moment.
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Sometimes this is just a you know, a feel good moment. And
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there are women who come and a great day to dress up and see their
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friends, and life is great for them and great. I'm glad they come
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and I'm glad they have a good time. There are they're women who are
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coming to this conference and looking for tools, tools to land their next job,
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tools to balance their financial matters and to manage and lead their financial matters
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so they can have better lives, easier lives, whatever is of interest to
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them. So I think again to answer your question, Gloria, this is
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such a passion project for me because as women, we should be empowering one
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another and we should be helping each other to find answers. Sometimes it's just
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where do I go for this? There are women who are trying to answer
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questions, and I'm hoped that at this conference those questions can can be answered.
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I don't know if I answered your question of answering questions. Did I
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answer your questions? That's that's a great answer. As you were as you
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were talking, I was here, thank you. I'm a usc alum too,
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and I remember, you know, I got two degrees there, Danielle,
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And I remember that USC attracts people from all walks of life. There's
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some people who are very well off in terms of financial means, and there's
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some people who are just struggling, you know, and they are just barely
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making it. There are a lot of first generation students there, and I
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was just sitting here smiling just because your motivation for what you do and having
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your mom as the inspiration, I think reaches so many women across that spectrum
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of life circumstances, and it touches their hearts, it touches them where they
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need to be. I think you meet people where they where they are.
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And I was just sitting here just this glowing because I'm so glad that you're
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in this very influential position at USC and can impact the lives of so many
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I'm going to say women in particular for this conference, but also just the
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lums in general, men and women across the board. Yeah, thank you,
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thank you. I know we're getting close to the to the hour,
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and I know you're very busy a woman, so I just want to be
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respectful of your time, Danielle. Is there anything that you want to tell
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us about your tenth annual conference, your vision for it, or are there
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other things that you wish we would have talked about that you haven't gotten a
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chance to address yet. Thank you, Gloria. The opportunity to talk with
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you again today has just been so surreal for me because I still am looking
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up to so many people that I admire, So as I shared with you,
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I can't imagine anyone who would say, hey, Danielle, we want
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to hear from you. So I thank you for this opportunity. But as
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we wrap up, I think the biggest thing for the tenth Annual USC Women's
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Conference that I just would want to share is that it is happening over three
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days. We are remixing our format, so if anyone is familiar with the
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conference in the past, it's always been usually one day that starts in the
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morning with a huge program with everyone together in our main auditorium. We then
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go into breakout sessions, then we have a lunch all together under a big,
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pretty pin and then we come back for a closing session with a keynote
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or a panel, and then networking over cocktails in the afternoon. And that
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formula has worked very very well for us. We continue to receive a lot
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of great feedback on that program. With the tenth annual, I feel that
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we have this wonderful and unique opportunity that we want to capitalize on, and
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so we're looking at creating an experience that, as I shared, would go
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across the three days, starting with a Thursday night VIP networking session that would
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include all of our speakers from the conference who are able to join us,
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and then other high profile alumni, women's USC women, parents in some students.
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The Friday would look a lot like our conference of today, and then
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on Saturday, that's the opportunity that I'm very very excited about. Saturday we
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believe will draw out, hopefully audiences that we haven't really been able to capture
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as deeply as we've wanted. So that includes a younger professional women who probably
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don't have the license to take off from work the way that some of our
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more established women do, so that's a population that we want to see grow.
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Also, we have over the years received a lot of inquiries from women
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and some fathers who have wanted to bring their school age daughters to the conference
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and the programming and with it being, you know, on a school day,
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we just could note in good conscience say yes, bring your ten year
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old or twelve year old or seventeen year old for that fact. And so
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now we're looking at doing some specific programming so that mothers can bring their daughters
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and if fathers want to bring their daughters as well or send their daughters,
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they can because we'll have some programming that will speak to that age demographic.
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And so we're really really excited about that. And then finally the last piece
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of the Saturday that is new for us. We have received over the years
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many inquiries from alumni and alumni women in particular who have businesses that have told
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us, hey, I can't be one of your sponsors at one of the
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sponsorship levels, but I would love to just have a table or an exhibit
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at the conference. And so from that feedback, we are creating an expo
34:02
this year where Trojan owned businesses, particularly women owned businesses, will be able
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to participate. If you're an author and you want to sail and sign your
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book, if you're a small business owner and you have a service to offer,
34:21
you'll be able to display your company. And we're hoping that both students
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who fall in that category, because we do have some very entrepreneurial students here
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at USC. Now you'll be able to participate as well as our parents and
34:34
has already shared our alumni. So we're looking at really getting new audience members
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who haven't been able to participate in the past and be a part of this
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big celebration. I love it. I love that you're remixing the format.
34:47
I love your language for that. And it sounds like that Saturday format is
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really going to help you tap into a whole new demographic and possibly even a
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new programming opportunities. It sounds absolutely yes, we're really really thrilled about it.
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So and more information we'll be coming out by December, definitely by January.
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And to your point, yes, Floria, we want people who have
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not been able to participate before to come out and have a reason to come
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out, or if they participated in the early years and having been back,
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we want to see them back. Absolutely well, thank you so much,
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Danielle. Is it okay to share your personal contact information? How would you
35:30
like for people to know more about the conference? Number one? And I
35:35
see that there's a conference address here on my notes, but is there also
35:40
a way that you maybe could welcome people to be in touch with you personally
35:45
as well. Yes, absolutely, If anyone has any questions about the conference,
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they can definitely go to our website Women's Conference dot UFC dot ETU.
35:55
You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram which is at USC Women's Conference.
36:01
And then just for me personally, if anyone ever has any questions or
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if there are any Trojans listening Hey fight On, you can always contact me
36:10
here at the Alumni Association. My email is Harvey d at USC dot eu.
36:19
And then also I don't do a lot on Twitter, I do more
36:22
on Instagram, but both of my handles are at Danny Eliza Harvey, which
36:28
is a combination of my first name, middle name, and last name.
36:31
Hey. Great, well, thank you again so much, Danielle, for
36:36
all that you're doing for University of Southern California Fight On Yes, and all
36:44
that you have shared with our listeners today. We have listeners all over the
36:46
planet, and I know that you're going to add a lot of value to
36:50
them and inspire them. So thank you again for being my guest. And
36:54
sadly I have to say goodbye, but I would love to have you back
36:58
another time. Absolutely, I'd love to do it. And thank you so
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so much, Gloria for the opportunity. Side onto all my trojans and love
37:05
you so much. I can't tell you enough. Thank you. You have
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a good rest of your day. What a fabulous conversation. Thanks again to
37:15
Danielle Harvey Stenson for being my guest. If you'd like to learn more about
37:21
Danielle's work, or, as she mentioned during today's conversation, if you want
37:27
to contact her directly about programming services or anything else that she offers through USC,
37:32
you can reach out to her via this email address, and that's Harvey
37:38
d h A r v E Y d is in Danielle at USC dot edu.
37:49
Or you can reach out to Danielle on Instagram or Twitter. Her Twitter
37:53
handle is at d A n I E l I z A h A r
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v e y Okay, now love it. If you missed any part of
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38:44
now. I know that when Danielle mentioned her mom as one of the people
38:50
who influenced her during our conversation, who influenced her as a leader, she
38:54
got me to thinking about, you know, some of the folks who influenced
38:58
me. So I want to ask ask you this, who are some of
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the leaders in your life who poured into you when you were young, and
39:07
who's pouring into you now as an adult, who influenced you, who inspired
39:14
you? Now this is my zone. As you know, inspiration such an
39:20
important quality in a leader, right, and we all want our leaders to
39:23
be inspiring. We're like moths that are drawn to a flame, who were
39:30
naturally drawn to people who inspire us. But before leaders or anyone else for
39:37
that matter, can inspire others, they must first be inspired. Now,
39:43
many of you know you've heard me talk about this before. That inspire comes
39:47
from this beautiful Latin word inspirare. I just love saying that inspirari, which
39:54
means to breathe into or upon and to become inspired, we must be infused
40:04
with life from a force outside of ourselves. And for me, I'm a
40:08
person of faith, so that means being infused with life, being breathed into
40:15
by God. Now how does this happen? Well, that's another show,
40:21
right, Maybe sometime I'll do a show just on inspiration. But for now,
40:27
let me just say that when we are infused with that inspire, with
40:31
inspiration, something shifts in us, something changes. Some say that magic happens.
40:40
I say the impact might be magical, but there is nothing magical about
40:46
it. It really is about being an open channel, a contuit for God,
40:53
for the divine to work through us and to use us as his vessel.
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Picasso speaks about this, Beethoven, Michelangelo, and many other artists speak
41:06
about this very same thing. Several years ago, I was on a trip
41:12
to Tuscany, which, by the way, my guest Danielle had a strong
41:15
hand in making that trip happen. As a part of that very special trip
41:22
to Tuscany, this was for USC's women alumni and their friends. Anyway,
41:29
on that trip I had the great fortune to once again witness Michelangelo's artistry.
41:36
Right, I don't remember standing at the base of his magnificent sculpture of David.
41:43
I was absolutely transfixed, and I was transported into another realm. Now
41:52
you have to realize that this sculpture of David is of David as a young
41:55
man. Most of you probably seen a picture of it. Maybe you've been
42:00
to Duscany too. But this youth, okay, this young man who was
42:05
about to duke it out with the mighty giant Goliath. I mean, this
42:08
amazing statue is actually fourteen and a half feet tall. That's taller than a
42:15
house, right, Okay, it's about the height of a two story building,
42:20
and that doesn't even include the base, which is about three feet high.
42:23
Right, So we're really talking about a statue that's about two and a
42:29
half stories tall. So I'm standing there at the foot of this absolutely magnificent
42:36
sculpture of David, and I'm in heaven. Of course, forget about the
42:44
bees nests of dozens of other people buzzing around me. I mean, there
42:49
are tons of folks who are they're just like me, just like me,
42:52
to admire this absolutely astounding work of art. They're shooting videos, posing for
42:59
selfies. I mean, you get the picture, right, part of the
43:02
pun But in the midst, right in the midst of this sea of humanity,
43:08
I had this wonderful epiphany, this wonderful aha. I realized that the
43:15
task of the artist and the task of the leader is actually one and the
43:24
same. Right, And just what is this task? Well, I thought
43:30
you'd never ask. The task is to release our resistance, to simply surrender,
43:38
to surrender what wants to be born in us and to be born through
43:44
us. To simply surrender to what wants to be born in and through our
43:50
marriages, our relationships with our kids, our friendships, right, our communities,
43:58
in and through our teams and our organizations and communities. Now, Danielle
44:05
spoke about her creativity in her own work. Wow, creativity such a powerful,
44:13
powerful force if we let it, if we surrender to it, creativity
44:19
can actually be a powerful and amazing ally if we just open our hearts and
44:24
minds, creativity can be an ally, a resource, a guide to support
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us in how we live and also in how we lead at home, at
44:38
work, and in any area of our lives every single day three sixty five
44:45
twenty four seven. Why, Because how you live is how you lead.
44:54
In fact, how we live is really how we show up in every aspect
44:59
of our lives. Right, Can I get an amen? Amen? Now?
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45:57
ted talks. Just type in my aim to find me there. Now,
46:02
before I close today, I want to thank each of you for tuning in
46:07
for allowing me to share a bit about my journey with what Legacy living is
46:13
all about, not just living and learning, but living and learning and serving
46:20
so that you make a difference in your own life and in the lives of
46:24
others. It's about being on purpose every single day three sixty five twenty four
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seven. Legacy living is a powerful way to make your life count once again.
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I want to thank you for joining me for today's episode. I'm your
46:47
host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, and this has been Legacy Living. Make
46:54
your Life Count. Please join me again for another episode of Legacy Living.
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Make your life count. Don't just count the days in your life. Make
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the days in your life count. That's what Legacy living is all about.
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Hey, have a fantastic day and remember make the days in your life count.
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God bless you. That's our show today. I'm your host, Doctor
47:43
Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join me again next time. Until then,
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don't just count the days in your life, make the days in your
47:54
life count. That's what Legacy Living is all about. Here's to you have
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a fantastic day and be sure to make it a yes kind of day.
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Remember to celebrate the music of your life. Make the days in your life count.