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Power Play: Redefining Your Relationship to Power

Power Play: Redefining Your Relationship to Power, by Iman Oubou. Photograph of pink boxing glove shattering glass, by JM0007
Photograph by MJ0007

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

One entrepreneurial woman’s journey to cease from self-sabotage and fitting into cliched stereotypes, reveals a new kind of power

When we fail to define and claim our power, we unknowingly place our worth in the wrong hands and ultimately pay a significant price for it, losing ourselves as a result.

After having launched my startup media platform, , as a novice in the world of entrepreneurship, I had finally reached the notoriously cutthroat fundraising phase of my new career. I was as bright-eyed and hopeful as any newcomer would be, but I had to look and

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