Being a female in a male dominated area comes with obstacles. In today's episode we talk about how to navigate these obstacles with a positive mindset. These are just a few of the lessons I have learned while participating in male dominated  sports, career fields, college programs, and friend groups. 

1. Know that there WILL be differences, you will be judged, pushed buck, & challenged.

2.  Don’t use being a female to your advantage unless you want others to use you being a female to your disadvantage.

3. Remember that not all your coworkers who are men look down to you.

4. You will NEED atleast one female friend to talk about emotions, frustrations, and actually connect. MEN DO NOT WANT TO but that does not mean that you have to hold everything in. 

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt