EP108: Women, Money, Dependence and the Beginning of a New Era with Clelia Peters

Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

What Clelia Shares:

• Her journey with money coming from generational wealth
• Accepted gender roles within her community and her work with Mama Gena and Barbara Stanny
• Turning point in her journey about her role as a woman came with having an abortion
• How she came to terms with money, wanting to enter the “marble hall of the daddies,” and getting there

What You’ll Learn:

• What gender roles look like in communities with generational wealth
• System of dependence in humanitarian aid paralleled system of dependence of being wealthy and feeling that you will be taken care of
• Women are outside of the worlds of money + commerce
• Revenue - costs = profits
• Assuming she would have a non-accretive job, and a virtuous, non-threatening in dating
• Thinking business school was a “world of benevolent daddies”
• Business school is 75% male, 25% female (the one professional school that remains disproportionately male)
• What business school is really like
• The shift to be motivated by money and power
• Interviewing women in business, and if they’d left, why had they left?
• Shifting structures and logistics in keeping women in workforce, but there is something much more profound than “solving” the logistical problems
• Generations and stages of feminism in business, the metaphor of a building
• Few models for feminine leadership
• Codeshifting women do in corporate jobs
• Online businesses are operating outside of the core systems of power that exist (real estate, technology, finance)
• The US is not a true capitalist country, it is a corporatist country
• We give corporations (not people ) welfare, with bailouts
• Market-based system, where both people come as empowered transactors
• What about reparations- how do we level things so people are empowered transactors? How do we level set the system?
• What rich people really do or think- are they Democrats or Republicans?
• Economy managed on merits, based on financial outcomes
• 2500 years of white supremacist patriarchy that we’ve lived in, and we are in a transition
• Developing a vocabulary of collective questioning
• Being a channel and gauging with her intuition when deciding whether to invest
• Why it’s taboo to state your sex within business, even if that may be informing your communication style
• Does she look for female-run companies to invest in?
• Masculine as triangle, feminine as a circle