THE EXPERIENCE · LIBERIA
The six weeks
Six weeks. Six conversations. One journey of becoming.
Becoming Her was not a classroom where young women simply came to sit and listen. Each week became a different chapter: a space to look inward, speak, meet women whose lives showed what was possible and carry practical tools into school, work and leadership.
WEEK ONE · THE BEGINNING OF A SISTERHOOD
Who is she?
Identity, Confidence & the Beginning of a Sisterhood
The question that started everything: Who are you becoming?
Before careers, leadership, networking or professional success, the young women began with themselves. At the Liberian Learning Center, a room of women who did not all know one another yet explored identity, values, strengths, talents, passions, dreams and the experiences that had shaped them.
There was laughter. There were introductions. There were conversations. Slowly, the room began feeling less like a workshop and more like a community.
The lesson: Confidence does not begin with pretending to be fearless. It begins with knowing yourself.
WEEK TWO · PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE
How does she show up?
Personal Branding, Professional Presence & Seeing Yourself Differently
Week Two shifted the question from “Who am I?” to “How do I show up in the world?” Personal branding was never about pretending to be someone else. It was about learning to communicate who you already are through introductions, networking, digital presence, values and the story you want people to remember.
Professional headshots were more than beautiful photographs. They were a way of saying: not someday, not after the perfect job now. Someone worth presenting professionally. Someone with something to contribute. Someone whose presence mattered.
WEEK THREE · VOICE
Can she tell her story?
Knowing your story internally is one thing. Communicating it confidently is another. In Week Three, participants developed a personal pitch bringing together strengths, interests, values, experiences and ambitions into a concise introduction. The process included practice, feedback and reflection. The goal was not memorization. It was confidence.
You do not have to make yourself smaller to make other people comfortable.
Your voice matters. Your experiences matter. Your ideas matter. Learn how to communicate them.
WEEK FOUR · SPEAKER SESSIONS — PART I
What does leadership look like when you can see it?
By Week Four, Becoming Her had moved beyond reflection. The first speaker session brought women into the room whose lives could make possibility feel closer not perfect, not distant, but real. Participants could ask how careers begin, how confidence grows, how challenges shape you and what professionalism looks like in everyday life.
Representation becomes even more powerful when it becomes accessible.
WEEK FIVE · SPEAKER SESSIONS — PART II
There is more than one way to become her.
The second speaker session expanded the conversation around purpose, impact, service and creating opportunity. Miayatta Z. Gbanya, a global humanitarian, and Odelia Y. Acolatse, a social entrepreneur, showed that leadership can happen through community service, advocacy, entrepreneurship and simply noticing a need and creating something in response.
There is no single type of woman you have to become in order to make an impact.
Leadership does not always begin with a title. Sometimes it begins with noticing something that needs to change and having enough courage to respond.
WEEK SIX · REFLECTION, CELEBRATION & GRADUATION
She was her all along.
The final week made space to look back at everything experienced together: the questions, the introductions, the growing confidence, the stories shared, the women who poured into the room and the relationships that had formed. It was a reflection, a celebration and a graduation not an ending to becoming, but a reminder that it is a process.
Becoming Her had officially begun and it would continue in every young woman who walked out carrying her own definition of who she wanted to become.