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Jennifer Bardot is the Founder of the GRIT Community which helps women gain knowledge, learn, build relationships, advance career opportunities, make a difference while engaging in an inclusive community of women. G.R.I.T. (Growth, Resilience, Intention, Tenacity) brings leaders together by providing support, professional development and inspire its members to have growth, resilience, intention and tenacity.
She talks Cynthia about her early struggles in school, her brush with death as a child, and the multiple successes she’s had in different industries. She started a successful an entrepreneur in her teens, later became a therapist, transitioned to a senior executive in the banking industry, before ultimately focusing all of her efforts on the women of the GRIT Community. Her story is one built on G.R.I.T. and will inspire you into believing that you too can do anything.
1 – Intro 00:29
2 – What is the G.R.I.T. Community 01:21
3 – Why she left a successful career in banking 02:36
4 – Struggles you’ve faced 03:31
5 – How did you learn you were capable? 08:03
6 – Your acceptance into the Graduate program 10:45
7 – Learning how to advocate for yourself 15:35
8 – First in the family to graduate college 16:33
9 – Being a first generation college student 17:14
10 – Owning a cleaning business in the Ozarks 19:19
11 – Looking back would you change anything? 22:15
12 – How did you discover who you are? 24:16
13 – Where do you look for professional development resources 26:55
14 – Your thoughts on hard conversations 29:05
15 – Artificial sense of security 33:13
16 – Example of some dark times you experienced 34:09
17 – How did you manage all the kid stuff and work 40:26
18 – Mom guilt 42:18
19 – Contact 50:45
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“Everybody has a light inside of them, and you have a choice. You can either use lighter fluid or an extinguisher. Same thing goes with everything. Same with people’s talents. You can either light it up or you can extinguish it.”
“If you follow this methodology, if you follow the pattern, the outcome is inevitable. You cannot mess it up because it’s just calculated moves that are in writing.”
One of the things I love to do if the opportunity presents itself as coach people, because I feel like that is the most, wow, fun, enriching thing that you can do for people. Because what happens is I believe that people behave for reasons, and you got to figure out what’s the root cause. So if someone reacts in a certain way, whether it’s anger, emotion, or whatever, there’s a reason why they’re reacting that way. And so I don’t think that people really want to react that way. They want to be their best self.
“I didn’t go into business from a business school background, and so I discounted a lot of my intuition and what I thought was right and what I should be doing and took other people’s advice sort of over my own thinking and eventually I always would wind up back to sort of what felt right to me was very different from the advice that I had been given in the business community.”
“The experience of going through the legal process is supposed to be about seeking justice. More often than not, people go through it and they’re just as scared and almost re-traumatized as they were when the injustice happened.”
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