About this event

In 2025, The WIMDI Speaker Series is inviting engaging speakers each month to give interactive talks on topics that help women kill it at work.

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Welcome to Talk 1 of 13 - From Anger to Collapse to Action: Activism When it Feels Like You Can’t Win

Making change in today’s political climate can feel like shouting into the void. Whether it’s disappointing election results, world conflicts, or the pervasive sexism of your everyday life, for most of us, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are the name of the game.

The anger, grief, and collapse we’re feeling are normal reactions to catastrophes too big to conquer individually. So we shrink in on ourselves, repress our overwhelming emotions, and sink into our couches, numbing out with a social media feed we increasingly despise.

Is there another way? Maybe one that doesn’t give ad revenue to a cadre of megalomaniac billionaires with questionable politics?

This talk will focus on repairing our hurt, restoring our hope, and re-galvanizing ourselves for the activism ahead. We’ll cover:

• How collapse and numbness keep us from igniting change
• The lessons women and girls are taught at every life stage that keep us small and disconnected from our anger
• How to re-connect to your feelings – and the drive to change they create
• Concrete strategies to help you take positive action to challenge injustice

The goal of this talk is to help you pick yourself up and dust yourself off after a frustrating loss so you can keep going to create change.

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Jennifer Cox

Jennifer is a London-based psychotherapist specialising in women's issues. Her practice is international, and the universal experiences of the women she treats inspired her to set up the organisation Women Are Mad movement 18 months ago. It then exploded into a global podcast Women Are Mad!

Her book, Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage Is Hiding And How To Let It Out dropped in the summer in the UK, and has sold multiple translation rights. It arrived in the US and Canada in December 2024. 

Holly Burton

Holly is an executive coach for women in male-dominated industries. She works one-on-one with ambitious women to help them lead, get promoted, and create the careers they actually want in industries they love.

As a mining engineer for the first ten years of her career, Holly was exposed to one of the most male-dominated spaces -- just 17% female. She uses the unique perspective she gained as a woman in mining, alongside her obsessive nerdiness for all things feminism, leadership, and career to help women create the working world they deserve while they wait for the rest of society to catch up.

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Timeline of Our Fun Event:

• 12:00 pm - The event starts with mingling, socializing, and small-group networking. We recommend putting your webcam on* (even if you've already transitioned to work-is-over-dress-like-a-slob mode) to help you make the strongest possible connections with your new WIMDI friends!
• 12:15 pm - The talk starts! Most talks contain interactive elements, question prompts for you to complete, or other activities that make multi-tasking difficult. Get out your notepad and prepare to soak up some knowledge.
• 12:45 pm - It's #WIMDIasks time! We end the night with our interactive community-based resource that lets you crowdsource any challenge in your life through the network of all the WIMDIs in the room.

How Online Events Work:

• We'll email you the login info for the Zoom meeting 5 minutes before the start of the event.
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• Our events are interactive and will require your attention and input throughout the course of the event.

Attendance Notes:

1) Gender:

This event is open to individuals of any gender identity.

2) Code of Conduct:

By attending this event, you agree to adhere to WIMDI's code of conduct, which you can find at wimdi.com/code-of-conduct-and-policy.

3) Privacy, Photography and Recording*:

This event is being recorded for release on the WIMDI YouTube channel. By attending you consent to the terms laid out at wimdi.com/video-release/. We understand that some of our members may not be comfortable being recorded, and we don’t want this to stop anyone from attending. Our Video Policy has helpful tips for staying internet-anonymous at our events. Learn more at wimdi.com/video-policy/

Online WIMDI events use Zoom, as such we cannot guarantee that no photos, screenshots, or recordings will be taken of you during the event by other attendees. We love it when our members connect at our events using both video and audio, but we understand if our members prefer to participate with their video turned off to preserve (more of) their privacy.

4) Donations to PAFNW (Pacific Association of First Nations Women)

As part of this event we have the option of donation to the Pacific Association of First Nations Women for their scholarship fund for Indigenous women and girls. This is a concrete way - beyond land acknowledgement - to redistribute some of our collective financial privilege to support Indigenous women.