Rock Your Stripes is a frank, fierce, full-arse femoir; part insightful memoir, infused with feminism, lively spirted, deliberately confronting, and purposefully instructional. An experienced leader, change champion, mentor, proud feminist, and facilitator of ElevateHER – Lean In circles, Jilinda’s book bares her passion and personal mission to encourage women to: step up bravely, stand out boldly, and speak up brilliantly. Adopted as a baby, Jilinda tells of her awakening at age 7 to see life as a blank canvas; a chance to create her own unique, colourful journey. Bursting out from belittling confines, she embraces individualism, makes brave changes, and boldly disrupts the ‘play-it-safe’ conservative conformists. She shares the valuable learnings gained along a zigzag pathway of continually advocating for what is right, fair, equal in choice and rich in opportunity.
Jilinda’s core message throughout the book is:
“Don’t half-arse your way through life … choose to be your full-arse version.”
PURPOSE OF BOOK:
• To inspire more women to step up bravely, stand out boldly, and speak up brilliantly … choose to be their full-arse version, to reach their greatest potential, to play the game of life at 100%
• To encourage more women to sit at the decision making tables and lead much needed change
• To ignite more women into active participation in closing the gap on gender inequality … to be the role-models for our younger women
• To build on the work I’ve been doing in my ElevateHER programs and Lean In Circles … and raise my profile [share my WHY] to encourage more women to get on board [the greater good PURPOSE]
