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(Music and text on screen: Women of DHS)

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What is the most important lesson you've learned in your career?)

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One of the things

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that I think

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that I have learned

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most and I still see today

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is that

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confidence is as important as competence.

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You know,

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we can be really good at our job

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and we can have the best technical

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skills, the best physical skills,

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regardless of,

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you know, the type of position we're in.

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But if we don't feel

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that we have the confidence

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that we belong at the table,

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that we have a voice

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that should be heard

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and listened to and acted upon.

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If we don't demonstrate it

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that level of confidence in ourselves,

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then we're not going to be able

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to use the competency

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that we've created through years

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of experience and education

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to be able to make the

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kind of changes that we need.

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Why is equality important in the workplace?)

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Really

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resonates with me

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how important it is

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to have women in these positions,

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how important it is

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to have somebody in a position

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that people can look up to,

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that they can see themselves in.

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And I think it really hit home

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the most shortly

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after I started in this role,

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when one of our employees came up to me

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and said,

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“A year ago, I didn't have any women

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in my chain of command

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between me and the President

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of the United States, but today I had five.”

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Why is diversity in leadership so important?)

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People notice, individuals notice.

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They notice

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who is in the leadership positions.

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And so the more that we can have

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women, minorities

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in these leadership positions

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where people can see themselves

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and what they could

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possibly accomplish in the future

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is so critically important.

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What do you want to be remembered for?)

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What I want to be remembered

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is about how I always

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put people first, about

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how we always want to make sure

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we understand

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what those that are impacted

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by the disasters that we're responding

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to are experiencing,

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about how the communities

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are trying to build resilience

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and the shortfalls

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in the resource challenges

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that they have,

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and that we always make sure

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that we're looking at it

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from their perspective.

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