Create a community of change agents ready to accelerate our leadership and amplify our impact.
OUR MISSION
A future that works for all of us, powered by feminine leadership.
OUR VISION
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Our North Star
Radical Celebration
Ambition Redefined
Curiosity First
Authentic Leadership
Mutual Support
We believe in collaboration over competition, and we know that we can accomplish more together than we can individually. We believe in name-dropping, opening doors, and connecting dots to lift up the leaders around us. We believe that changing the world is a team sport.
Radical Celebration
Ambition Redefined
Curiosity First
Authentic Leadership
Mutual Support
We embrace #realtalk and are willing to share our challenges as well as our wins. We don't just share the polished talking points version of what happened; we'll tell you how we really got something done so that you can borrow our approach or lessons learned to do the same. We're here for the hard stuff, and not just the good stuff.
Radical Celebration
Ambition Redefined
Curiosity First
Authentic Leadership
We want to grow as leaders, and we know we don't have all the answers. We ask questions before we offer advice, we give others the benefit of the doubt, and we seek to better understand each other before we judge.
Mutual Support
Radical Celebration
Ambition Redefined
Curiosity First
Authentic Leadership
What got us here won't get us where we're going. We're ready to ditch hustle culture and climbing the corporate ladder for the sake of climbing in favor of ambition on our own terms and creating a career that works for our lives (and not the other way around).
Mutual Support
Radical Celebration
Ambition Redefined
Curiosity First
Authentic Leadership
We believe in celebrating the big wins, the small wins, and everything in between. We celebrate other people bragging and taking up space, and we share our wins with the Collective with the objective of embodying possibility.
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If you consider yourself a woman changing the world, we consider you a woman changing the world. Period.
That said, we also appreciate that gender is a social construct and not binary. We are borrowing the definition of women from Pooja Lakshmin, MD, who in Real Self-Care quotes Silvia Federici, who said, "To me it has always been mostly in terms of a political category." Pooja goes on to write, "I use the word women inclusively to mean all people who suffer under the oppressive conditions that have typically been associated with the female sex, which includes queer folks, trans and nonbinary people, and intersex and agender people."
We're inspired by adrienne maree brown’s definition of feminine leadership: “not just women leaders, but leaders who shift our understanding of how power can be held.” For us, feminine leadership is about collaboration, connection, and prioritizing the good of the collective over individual gain. If that approach and our space resonate with you, we would absolutely love for you to join us. And if there’s more that we can do to create a space that feels inclusive, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
A NOTE ON TERMS
Our Values
DEI is critically important to our mission and our vision: We believe that to create a future that works for all of us, we need to put more power in the hands of women, especially women of color, and nonbinary people. The Girls Club Collective is an anti-racist, anti-discrimination space.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
Taking a page out of Kelly Diels’s book: Women entrepreneurs are, all too often, undercapitalized. GCC is self-financed and bootstrapped out of cash flow…so if you can afford to pay in full, we really appreciate it. That helps us avoid things like predatory payment plans. And if you can’t, we do our best to offer payment plans that don’t unnecessarily penalize people who aren’t in a position to pay in full.
ETHICAL PRICING
While our carbon footprint is tiny (!) in the grand scheme of things, we are continuously evaluating opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint, from using cloud platforms run on renewable energy to sourcing local and primarily vegetarian meals for our gatherings.
SUSTAINABILITY
As part of our Pledge 1% commitment, we donate at least 1% of our revenue to increase women’s access to reproductive healthcare and 1% of our time to pro bono work with the Women’s Impact Alliance on an annual basis.
PLEDGE 1% COMMITMENT
Through the Women Changing the World podcast, we are shining a light on the real-life humans who are birthing the new. As part of this effort, we are continuously looking to elevate new and diverse voices in sustainability, social impact, and entrepreneurship.