Food Shelter: Feeding Minds, Building Brands & Breaking the Bias. / by Joanne Jordan

When we started our agency, one of the most important goals was to create a fun, positive, and supportive work environment for anyone who came through our doors. The second, to build our playing field where gender didn’t matter in the least. As a result, we would be equals in every sense of the word - with each other and those we work and do business with.

Today, we are just that. Equals. Internally, we spend our days dividing, slaying, and conquering. Externally, we stand together with our team, doing much of the same. Yet, outside of our self-made bubble, there are still micro-aggressions we notice and endure regarding gender stereotypes and discrimination.  While we are beyond excited to see a world that has gotten so much better with gender equality by leaps and bounds, the work is hard. The hours are long. There is still so much more to do.

We are still paying attention and setting our stage nearly two decades later. Now, more than ever before. It’s important. We vow to keep our agency equal. Celebrate the differences. Break the bias(es) that deter growth and forward movement.

Collectively we can, but as entrepreneurs and working Moms, we want the generation we are raising to witness firsthand there should never have been a bias, to begin with. But if there is, BREAK IT.