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“Strong women stand up for themselves, and stronger women stand up for others.” ~Leslie Higgins, Ted Lasso (Season 4, Episode 2) Strength is not only measured by how firmly we advocate for ourselves. It is also revealed in how willingly we use our voices, influence, experience, and access to support someone else. Standing up for others can look like speaking their name in a room they have not yet entered, opening a door that once felt closed, challenging an unfair assumption,

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ~ Dolly Parton There are celebrity deaths that make you sad because you loved the music, the movies, or the memories attached to them. Then there are people whose passing feels like we lost something bigger. Dolly Parton feels bigger. Maybe because she was one of those increasingly rare people who seemed to belong to everybody without ever changing herself to belong to anybody. Years ago, I listened to the podcast Dolly Parton’s Am