Welcome to Wednesday. Safe moves are officially off the table.
Last week, I proposed something simple:
Women like us talk about money.
We tell each other what the opportunity pays.
What we charged.
What we negotiated.
What we know.
But the more I thought about it, the more I realized this is bigger than money.
Think about how much you've learned the hard way.
Which questions to ask.
What to charge.
Who actually makes the decision.
Which opportunities are worth your time.
Which rooms matter.
Who you need to know.
What you should negotiate.
What you wish you'd known five years ago.
Now imagine if another woman didn't have to spend five years figuring it out too.
What if your hard-earned knowledge became another woman's head start?
Why this matters right now
A lot of women talk about supporting other women.
I'm proposing we get more specific.
Transfer advantage.
Information is an advantage.
Access is an advantage.
Context is an advantage.
An introduction can be an advantage.
Knowing how something really works is an advantage.
And every time we pass one of those things to another woman, we give her something she didn't have before.
She gets to start further ahead.
That's collective leverage.
Because if every woman has to rebuild the same knowledge, relationships, and leverage from scratch, our power resets with every woman.
But when we transfer what we've learned?
Power compounds.
Today’s Move
Ask yourself:
What do I know now that I wish another woman had told me five years ago?
Then give that advantage to another woman this week.
Send the introduction.
Forward the opportunity.
Share the contact.
Tell her what to ask.
Explain how the room actually works.
Tell her what you wish you'd known before you walked into it.
Help her skip a lesson you had to learn the hard way.
Shorten another woman's learning curve.
Proof it works
You've probably experienced this yourself.
Someone told you the person you actually needed to contact.
Gave you context before an important meeting.
Made an introduction you couldn't have made yourself.
Told you what to ask for.
Warned you about something you didn't know to look for.
The action may have taken them minutes.
But it may have saved you weeks, months, or even years of figuring it out alone.
That's the power of a head start.
And once someone gives you one, you have something you can eventually pass forward too.
Brazen Boost
Collective power isn't just women succeeding beside each other.
It's women deliberately making the path easier to navigate for the women around them.
That's what Huddle Your Teammates means in practice.
Not just encouragement.
Information. Access. Context. Introductions. Opportunity.
The things that change what another woman knows, who she knows, what she asks for, and what becomes possible next.
We don't need every woman rediscovering the same lessons.
We need those lessons moving through our networks.
Brazen Law reinforced: Women like us don't make another woman start from zero.
A question to sit with today:
What advantage are you holding that could become another woman's head start?
That's today's move.
Turn something you learned the hard way into another woman's head start.
—Martise
Founder, BrazenEra
Building Project Brazen 2026
P.S. - In seven weeks, The Brazen Code arrives.
One of its three pillars is Huddle Your Teammates because I believe women's individual power and our collective economic power are connected.
Over these final weeks before launch, I'm sharing more of what it looks like to actually live the Code.
Because this isn't just something I want women to read.
It's something I'm proposing we practice.
One more thing:
If Huddle Your Teammates means we don't make another woman start from zero, there's something you can do right now.
Think of one woman who's building something ambitious.
What could she use that you already have?
An introduction?
A lesson?
A contact?
An opportunity?
A piece of information?
Give it to her.
And if the Brazen Power Letter is one of the resources you think could give her a head start, forward this email to her.
Or send her here to subscribe:
Women like us don't make another woman start from zero.