We Are Women Who Change History

Today, as we celebrate the first day of Black History Month, I had the incredible honor of featuring interviewing on HerCsuite™ Radio with Dominique Luster and talk about how " We Are Women Who Make History".

Dominique shares the power of knowing someone's name and how we can unleash that strength in our daily lives.

"I would challenge the listeners to pause and think if you could name both of your grandmothers. We could call that challenge A. Challenge B is can you name all four of your great-grandmothers? The real challenge is can you name all eight of your great-grandmothers?

As women, we come from a lineage of women. Everyone was born of a woman. For me and my particular family, I can name all the way up to my fifth great-grandmother. Her name is Charity. She's an incredible woman who was born enslaved in Oldham County, Kentucky.

These Kentucky stories have continued ever since and she was spicy. She didn't take nothing for nobody. I like her a lot. She inspires me, because I get to draw strength from her by knowing her name and a bit about her story.

What she did was not just her name, birth date and death date. It's more than that. I know a little bit about where she lived, how she lived, the work that she did and her children who became my fourth great-grandmother. I get to learn more about her and the strength that was required of her as a Black woman born enslaved in Kentucky. I got to learn a lot about what she lived through and survived. In her case, thrived.

For me, in my modern-day life, I find a great sense of strength in her because believe it or not and this goes to the DNA question, I find that there is peace. This little magical piece that's locked into who we are, particularly as women comes from our mother, grandmother and all the women in our line. While there is this magical bit that we can dive into and pull from, there's also some science behind it as well.

What's fascinating to me about it, is that every bit of strength, will, fortitude, humor, life and thriving are locked in there and we could tap into it, if we knew her name.

The power of someone's name unlocks four generations of strength for you, for when you feel like you are having a hard time, can't figure something out and you've reached the end of the road or the end of the rope.

The fact that you exist as a woman is evidence, that all the other women before you somehow were able to figure something out.

If you tap into that piece, what can't we do? "-  Dominique Luster

We are so grateful to Dominique Luster for sharing her stories and for being a valued member and featured speaker for HerCsuite® .

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Resources:

The Luster Company

Dominique Luster TEDx Talk

#DearCoretta

The Luster Company Instagram

Thank you to Dominique Luster for being on the show and for shining your light in the world! Special thanks to Bobbie Carlton and Innovation Women where we met!