Simone Knego

Because if I'm not telling myself that,

that I'm an amazing human.

Why would anybody else telling me make me feel any differently?

I have to do the work from the inside.

Yeah, it is such an interesting statistic when you look at it, because what I want women to understand is that if you apply to something when you're 100% qualified, you are overqualified, right?

You're already ready for the next job.

I think there's a lot of societal pressures.

I look back to my mom.

So my mom went to medical school in 1961.

She had grown up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania.

Her dad worked in the coal mines.

Her mom had a sixth grade education, but in basically ninth grade, she walked into a library for the first time and decided that, you know what?

I want this for myself.

I want to do something that the world is telling me not to.

And that's exactly what she did.

She became a physician.

Her whole life, she was told that she was working in a man's world and that her voice didn't matter.

But it did.

I mean, she changed lives.

And I think the way I look at everything now is that we don't need to worry about what anybody else is thinking.