 Welcome back to Every Light Woman. So let's have a real conversation about women taking over traditional men's roles. Madison, you've seen in sports, you've seen in marriages of your friends, that women are kind of stepping in on the men. Okay, but I'm not exactly sure what you mean, like women are becoming football players? No, there are women who are trying to be on men's pro teams. There's the woman who just joined as one of the assistant coaches on a men's basketball team. What do you think about that? If a woman's trying to be a coach on a man's basketball team, it's not that she isn't smart enough to understand strategy and all of that, but there are physiological and psychological thought processes and things are going on in a man's body that a woman may not fully understand. So yeah, I think you can cross boundaries sometimes where you take it too far, absolutely. So do you think we've taken it too far? I think in some ways we have. Not that because I'm saying women can't be everything that they want to be, they're not smart enough, they're not, it's just that sometimes it's like, no, actually you can't be a man. Can you be a basketball player? Just be a proud woman. There's nothing about me that wants to be a man. Why not coach women's basketball team? Why teach, you know, why go into men's sports? Why not teach, if you're a woman, why not coach women? There's so much work that needs to be done with women. I really wish that instead of competing to be a man, we invested our time in supporting the growth and evolution of women. I wish I could get up and kiss you right now because that's so true. Because what happened to just being a plain old woman? Sexy, vibrant, educated, nurturer of the family. Why do we feel that? Because the man is moving here, we gotta do that because there's some reason we're gonna fall behind. We're not equal, sorry people, men and women are not equal, we're not equal. We're not even designed the same way. Well and on that note, I have friends who go to their jobs specifically not dressed feminine, not for practical reasons, but because they feel in their office, they won't earn the same respect as a man. So they step into this role of almost dressing more manly. You know, a little cleavage will get you a little... Well I want to wear a choo-choo in heels in between the same way, bring it on. I don't want to have to do that and I think it's such a shame that so many women feel that way. You know instead of being dressed like this, they put on a suit to look like a man. Look, if a man showed up in his Superman shirt, you know, and expected someone to take him seriously, it would be hard to take him seriously. There's a place for girl power and there's a place for man power. It doesn't always cross. That's cool. No, I want to be girl power all the time and I know regardless, but... When I was young, we come from a military background and a history of military veterans in my family and I wanted to grow up and be in the military. And I was gonna be an officer in the military and it was rare. Were you trying to think like a man? You know, I didn't think of it that way, but yes, I got out into the dirt and I did all the stuff with the boys. I did what the boys did. And I talked to a female officer and I'm trying to figure out where am I gonna go? Where am I gonna go with this? And when I started talking to the female officers during that time, they discouraged me from going into the military and I thought, well, are you jealous? I'm just younger, what's going on here? But the stories that they gave to me were like, no, that's not a place for women. The type of abuse that we received during that time, the type that you're gonna be prepared to get defiled regularly, mentally, physically. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense. Why do we wanna push ourselves to the point where we have to make the point? But I think there's a point in- What does that look like, think like a man? What does that, are we saying that women are subservient and they're thinking? What does that look like? Okay, isn't there a book written by, I believe, Steve Harvey says- Yes, he says think like a man, act like a woman. Exactly. A lady. Think like a man, act like a lady. It's gonna get you a lot farther. If you understand the way a man thinks in the business world and the romantic world, you will get farther. Because we're relating to men, because I didn't wanna leave with women that we're sometimes, we're some dits because we don't think like men. No, absolutely not. No, no. But there is an art to being able to understand the mind of a man. You can think like a woman in, you know, understand the mind of a man. Okay, I have a question. If there was a man sitting here talking to us about our menstrual cycle, how real do you think that conversation would be? I can't stand that. When you go to a gynecologist, this is totally on topic, but it's a man and he tries to tell you how it feels like. Right, yes. I understand that. It's like hell, yeah. Right, exactly. So yeah, there's that crossing where men at some point are gonna look at us and go, why am I having this conversation with you? Okay. Because there are conversations that we don't have with men because it doesn't make sense. Not that a man can't be educated. Right, I understand that. Not that a man can't understand it. I understand that. But we're like, do you bleed regularly? Yes, so you think we're disservicing women and saying less? I think that because women think with their hearts, men think more factual. But if I begin to start thinking factual, I don't want you to say that I'm doing that because I'm trying to be like a man. No, I am in expanding my thought process. That's why I don't wanna necessarily leave that if you start thinking intelligently, you're thinking like a man. No, you're expanding your thoughts. So you're being a smart woman. Yes. That's a way of woman. Stay tuned.