DBI 13th Annual Women's Empowerment Luncheon

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending the 13th Annual Women's Empowerment Luncheon in my hometown of Columbus, GA held at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center.

About 1,240 women from throughout the tri-city area were in attendance to shop, network, and more importantly: to be empowered. The keynote speaker for this year's luncheon was Award winning actress Lynn Whitfield while the theme was: Remembering our Struggle, Reclaiming our Purpose, and Redefining our Image.

I was moved throughout the entire event seeing so many women of all colors and ages looking so beautiful and coming together for such a wonderful cause.

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Highlights

During Lynn Whitfield's speech, she touched on how important it is for women to find our purpose in life and how our purpose in life is directly connected to our passion. Her words resonated with me so much, it felt as though she was talking directly to me as I am sure she was hitting home for many others in the room. She went on to say that whatever your purpose is: find it no matter how big or small.

We also got bit of show! To close out her empowering speech, Ms Whitfield concluded with three poems by prominent women in history to include "Ego Tripping" by poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. She belted these poems and performed them as if they were her own words and the room was soaking it all in word by word.

If you missed this event, be sure to attend next year as I am sure that it will be just as empowering!

Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) I was born in the congo I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls into the center giving divine perfect light I am bad I sat on the throne drinking nectar with allah I got hot and sent an ice age to europe to cool my thirst My oldest daughter is nefertiti the tears from my birth pains created the nile I am a beautiful woman I gazed on the forest and burned out the sahara desert with a packet of goat's meat and a change of clothes I crossed it in two hours I am a gazelle so swift so swift you can't catch me For a birthday present when he was three I gave my son hannibal an elephant He gave me rome for mother's day My strength flows ever on My son noah built new/ark and I stood proudly at the helm as we sailed on a soft summer day I turned myself into myself and was jesus men intone my loving name All praises All praises I am the one who would save I sowed diamonds in my back yard My bowels deliver uranium the filings from my fingernails are semi-precious jewels On a trip north I caught a cold and blew My nose giving oil to the arab world I am so hip even my errors are correct I sailed west to reach east and had to round off the earth as I went The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid across three continents I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal I cannot be comprehended except by my permission I mean...I...can fly like a bird in the sky...

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