Is Self Advocacy an Act of Service?

"I feel like i've had a lifelong training in helping women advocate for what they want," she says. "My single mother who ended up raising three daughters by herself, would always be telling me, 'You got to ask for what you want' I didn't incorporate her coaching into my own life, because i wanted to be liked, right? She wast my monday morning quarter back when it came to these everyday little negotiations."