Empowerment and Diversity: Inspiration Knows No Color

When women come together for a common cause or purpose there are no limits to what we can accomplish. I had a recent opportunity to experience (again) the power of women supporting one another despite their differences and wow, what an experience it was! The first annual Create Your Vibrant Life Empowerment Conference for women in Omaha, Nebraksa was a HUGE success! Women from various ethnic backgrounds, ages, religious beliefs, and socio-economic status came together on one day in one room to be inspired and empowered to become their best selves and create lives they love.

As I reflect back on the May 15th event, it was wonderful to see the diversity in the room. There were black, white and latina women. There were older, mature, young and mid-life women. There were professional women, business owners and women of all walks of life in the room. There were mothers and daughters there together, friends and business partners there to change the way they live their lives. These women did not see color, age, religion, income, status, class or any other “difference” during they day, they saw, believed in and embraced a common thread – womanhood!

The conference was specifically designed to create a space where women could come together, just as they are and BE in the moment, BE comfortable in their own skin and BE without masks, credentials or other outward identifiers. At the conclusion of the day, each woman was given a balloon or two and asked to attach the one thing that was keeping them stuck in life to that balloon. The wonderful, inspiring conference ended with each woman releasing that balloon into the air (outside) with full intention to begin creating a life they love with no more excuses, no limits, no worries, no doubts and no FEAR!

This was a fabulous day for women to connect, share, learn and transform in the vibrant women they desire to be. It was a honor to be in the room with each and every woman who shared space with me that day. At the end of the day we are the same… women who want to live, laugh, love and dream.

Check out the pictures of this awesome day and mark your calendar for the 2nd Annual Create Your Vibrant Life Empowerment Conference for Women on September 23, 2010!  

By Catrice Jackson