As women is it better for us to hide our intelligence from the men in our lives, our bosses, co-workers, friends, boyfriends? Are we coming across as too emasculating or threatening? Should we “dumb it down” for the sake of our careers and relationships?

Questions a lot of us women have to ask ourselves more than we would like to admit.

“I get worried for young girls sometimes: I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent.” Amy Poehler, Co-Founder of Smart Girls. Amy and her team are actively promoting and supporting the idea that it is OK for young women to use their intelligence and imagination, books over gossip mags!

Amy is just one of the many women across the world riding the “it’s cool to be smart” band wagon. Michelle Obama once said “I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” If the First Lady of one of the most powerful countries in the world is saying it’s cool, then there must be something to it! Of course we will still come across those “non-riders” but to them we have to simply say “get with the times!”

It is so important for us as women to be advocates of intelligence and to help each other on our paths to success.

We aren’t there yet but the movement is starting and if we join together and encourage each other before we know it there will be just as many women CEO’s and Executives as there are men.

So ladies ask those questions, be curious, challenge yourself and the people around you.Use your best accessory because smart is sexy.

Michelle Mason



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