The Inconceivable Virtual Retreat
THE INCONCEIVABLE VIRTUAL RETREAT
Imena dreams of owning a construction company. She imagines standing on the scaffold in her hard hat, looking over the sites that she and her crew have built, mentally congratulating herself on the contracts she’s won. She smiles as she thinks about the jobs she’s created for her community and the housing issues her company helps address. But her dreams are interrupted by other people’s criticism, judgment and doubt.
Whether they are important people or not, as a woman, mother, and person of color, she’s told that she’s being unrealistic, taking unnecessary risks, or not focusing on “what really matters”— being a mom. Some just flat-out tell her to stay in her lane. Mentors refer to her vision as “her little project.” Bankers laugh at her and her business plan. Over time, she starts to question herself and her sanity, “Am I crazy?"
She wonders, “Maybe I am doing too much.” But is she? We don’t think so, and that’s why we created