Reflections On The Road To Respect

This month I am asking all of you in the Road to Respect community to help me become North America’s Next Greatest Speaker.In February I presented Speak Up: Speak Out – Personal Power and Respect in Business at the Vancouver chapter of eWomenNetwork.  After the presentation Pamela Chatry, Executive Managing Director told me about a speakers competition that eWomenNetwork was holding and encouraged me to enter.eWomenNetwork has thousands of members.  Many of those members are also members of the eWomenNetwork speakers bureau.  Many are professional speakers.In spite of the fact that I really didn’t think I had a hope of making it, I decided to enter.  It wasn’t really about winning, it was more about affirming my intention to speak, affirming my commitment to talk about the things I am passionate about: power, respect, and disrespect: subjects that many of us prefer to avoid dealing with.I entered  the competition without any expectation.  Imagine my surprise when on March 27th I received the following email: