I think they get it or at least one of them did, the Lil' Sistas of Antipolo.
While asking them to work on getting a rough start at their introduction letter, I asked a few of them if I could briefly read what they've written so far. They were all kind of shy with what to write so I had done a brainstorming activity to help them and then I told them to write just like they'd talk if they were meeting a new friend in person. I think that helped a lot because what resulted from it were some pretty solid introduction letters.
In one of the letters that I read over, one of the girls commented about me and my boxing class with her. I was very interested though in the surprising comment about me being a "powerful woman" as oppose to something more along the line of a strong coach or strong boxer. To call me powerful and a powerful woman, that was pretty special but what got me was the fact that she wrote I'm teaching her confidence. I absolutely loved that and honestly could have hugged her right there and then.
She gets it. She totally 100% got my mission with the Lil' Pow Boxing Class. It's so much more beyond just boxing and she understood that. She wrote about that. I loved it.
I was really looking forward to today, the launch day of the Snail Mail Sista Program, because I was eager to sit down in a more intimate setting with a small group of the Lil' Sistas of Antipolo and get to work one-to-one with them, away from the physical training (boxing). There are 10 of them that are participating in the trial run of this program I've launched but already some others here have been asking to join in. We first need to see how smoothly this goes and what needs to be adjusted, dropped, added and whatnot. I'm super optimistic about it though. I think it'll be so good for them to connect with girls outside of their current circle, girls that are so different from them but in many ways are the same.
Day one, launch day... total success.
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