Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And that eventually was the name of her book.
And I think it was hard for her because she was so applauded and so celebrated and so closely tied to the notion of being a girl boxer.
Yeah, I was like she's definitely been scathed by controversy.
And I think it was such an interesting concept because one, by nature, the word boss is to have authority to be in charge of which they all were.
They all held, you know, the position of either founder or founder, CEO, managing director and whatnot.
And I think they presented in a very stereotypical fashion isn't the word I want to use, but it was definitely an aspirational.
And I mean, when we talk mold as well, we have to look into the uncomfortable truth, which was that they were white.
They were, you know, and they were generally speaking privileged backgrounds.
And I think, you know, there's that part of it.
And also then we have the fact that they are women and we've never called male bosses boy boss.
And there's an interesting element of Girlboss, I feel like, that we haven't touched on, Rae, and that is that it was a hustle culture.
When they were interviewed, when they were profiled, when they wrote their books, it was very much like, I did 16-hour days, I skipped breakfast, you know, I ate dinner in the office.