BB: Boom! Okay, just boom. The call to the wolfpack at the end of this chapter is wear what you want, love who you love, become what you imagine, create what you need. You were never Little Red Riding Hood, you were always the wolf.
BB: Oh, my god. Stop. But the call to the wolfpack, which I consider myself one of, at the end of this chapter is be grateful, but do not just be grateful. Be grateful and brave. Be grateful and ambitious. Be grateful and righteous. Be grateful and persistent. Be grateful and loud. Be grateful for what you have and demand what you deserve.
Brown, B. (Host). (2020, October 26). Brené with Abby Wambach on the New Rules of Leadership. [Audio podcast episode]. In Dare to Lead with Brené Brown. Parcast Network. -with-abby-wambach-on-the-new-rules-of-leadership/
Abby was joined by an interviewer whom I do not know the name of, but we dove into what the "Wolfpack" really is and where it came from." We have all heard the children's story of little red riding hood she says. Where a girl is told if she stays on the path and does what she is told then everything will be fine. Well I don't know about you, but I suck at doing what I am told and in the words of Abby herself "Everything good that has happened to me, has happened because I went off the path" (or something to that effect). She told us this all stemmed when at the 2016 ESPYS she was given an Icon Award with NBA and NFL stars Kobe Bryant and Peyton Manning. "When the clapping stopped, and the cameras turned off I realized the three of us are all walking into three verydifferent retirements." Which was true, Bryant and Manning had to figure out where they were going to invest their millions and Abby had to figure out how she was going to pay her mortgage. Abby explained that she became angry, and from this anger, wolfpack was born.
Probably my favorite part of the whole event night last night was during the question and answer when a young girl comes to the mic and says, "How can I create my own Wolfpack." Abby immediately got up and gave the girl a hug and asked the crowd "Who here wants to be in her wolfpack?!" All of us cheered and raised our hands. That moment right there is what this whole thing is about, young girls like her feel captivated to create change and community for women. If we lead by example and with humility, it teaches our children that they too can be leaders. You don't need permission to change the world, find your wolfpack and lead them.
To end this book Abby explains that she took a break from training and exercising after her retirement. When it came time to get back into it, it was hell. She hated running, I mean come on it's really the worst. But for someone who had exercised and trained day in and day out her whole life to hate it that much was odd. Her wife pointed out that before, Abby had her team, her Pack essentially. Every step of the way they were there with her struggling through every step. Now it's just her, out on the roads of Florida trying to outrun the alligators and what not. Point being we are now her pack, all of us who have assumed the role as part of Abby Wambach's wolfpack are one. Together were going to change the frickin world. People all over have been marginalized for any and every reason man could come up with. But now we are moving forward together to take everything we deserve from this world and more.
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