I'm Tired.

I’m Tired.

I’m tired of fighting the same battle women decades before me fought.

I’m tired of having to prove my athletic talent and worth because I am female.

I’m tired of being compared to men on a daily basis.

I’m tired of people with uneducated opinions.

I’m tired of young children being influenced by those same opinions.

I’m tired of people who hide behind their computer screens voicing those opinions.

I’m tired of letting those opinions get the best of me.

I’m tired of decisions being made by money, not passion.

I’m tired of some men who think we are beneath them, but have mothers, wives and daughters who are “excluded” from those comments.

I’m tired of corporate America not seeing the value in women as decision makers – decision makers who SPEND MONEY on their families. 

I’m tired of making what one MLB player makes in a single at-bat, in 55 games total, simply because I wasn’t born with a penis. Yeah, I said it.

I’m tired, but I know I’m not the only one who’s tired.

I know I’m not the only one because there were women who fought before me.

I know I’m not the only one because there are women fighting beside me.

I know I’m not the only one because Title IX is real and so is the Equal Pay Act.

I know I’m not the only one because women are slowly infiltrating the corporate ranks, the Presidential ranks, the technology ranks, the science ranks, the anything ranks.

I know I’m not the only one because there are others like me.

Tired.

Tired of staying silent.

Tired of breaking through the same ceiling.

Tired of fighting the same fight.

Tired of the slow and painful…

progress.

I see progress.

I see fight.

I see grit.

I see perseverance.

I see relentlessness.

I see growth.

I see passion.

I see love.

I see hope.

I. See. Hope.

And I see opportunity.

And it is within arm’s reach.

I’m tired.

But I will never rest.

WOMEN will never rest.

Always with a smile,

@EAllard24