When I was a young project manager building affordable housing, I needed to find a way to be both my authentic self and also to get the respect of the construction management team I was working with. I searched for the right way, until I discovered my swagger after the construction crew tried to scare me with snakes. (For the full story, go to Swagger at Work.)
After that incident, I started to talk with other women about how they found their confidence – an idea I begin to think of as swagger. There were so many great stories about women who learned to feel confident by riding a bike or by doing well in math class that I decided to write a book called The Girl’s Guide to Swagger. As I pulled everything together, it became clear that there were so many wonderful stories that it would be best to publish them as a series of books. The Girl’s Guide to Swagger in the Outdoors and Sports is the first in the series.
Over the past two year, I have been focusing on interviewing women and girls who love to be outdoors and participate in sports. Some of their stories have appeared as blogs on the swagger website.
While I was incorporating these stories into The Girl’s Guide to Swagger in the Outdoors and Sports, I was also working on another book called the Taos Hiking Guide.
The Taos Hiking Guide was released in June by Nighthawk Press. I hope to be able to resume work on The Girl’s Guide to Swagger in the Outdoors and Sports later this year. I will keep you posted on progress!
Thanks for your support of this work to increase the voice of women!