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As a young female entering the workplace, I only knew little to expect in terms of what representation would look like day-to-day. Since I started working at the age of 16, through various industries like retail, sales, promotional modeling, fashion modeling and now as an adult in the “real world” I never paid close attention to representation. Now that I have experienced a full-time commitment where I had to navigate benefits, parking garages, 32-story buildings and figuring out which heels I would wear to work everyday, I have paid closer attention to who calls the shots in the workplace.

My name is Natalie Rogge and I am in my mid 20’s, born and raised in Colorado. I attended the University of Colorado Boulder and graduated in 3.5 years with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Linguistics. I currently attend Roger Williams Law School in Bristol, RI.

My resume is quite eclectic, ranging from my 8 years of professional modeling, 4 years of promotional modeling, 7 pageants I have competed in, numerous retail/sales jobs, and two Greek organizations I have been a part of: Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Alpha Delta.

I came up with the idea for this blog through my studies at CU Boulder and through my acquaintances (and my own) experiences as a female entering the workplace. In my studies as a Sociology student I learned the direct and indirect discrimination women of all backgrounds experience when entering the workplace. I wanted to find a way to open the conversation about these experiences. I recognize the fact that no two women’s experiences are the same, and no experience should go unrecognized. I am fortunate enough to be surrounded with and know women in all different sectors of the workplace. I thought, why not provide other women who are trying to go into these same sectors some insight and advice to help them out?

I believe that representation is everything. If you see someone like yourself in a position of power, it reassures you that that form of success exists for someone who looks like you. However, I think we often forget or disregard the type of work and in some instances privilege (yes I just broke out the “p” word), it took to get there.

Whenever I noticed a women in a position of power, I always acknowledged how amazing that was but I never asked myself how. And that’s just it. I think the “how” is all we are missing to cracking the code on getting more females elected into office, more female CEOs, more female entrepreneurs and so on. Once we can learn from each other the “how” on how we got to where we are now, we can uplift one another and help each other in achieving success.

I started this blog in hopes of creating a dialogue around how women can achieve success in the workplace, and just how they did it. I am focusing on women of all different backgrounds, experiences, ages, and workplace sectors.

If you would like to share your story and how you achieved success, please click the “contact” tab and let’s get in touch! The world needs your story.

Images shot on location in Downtown Denver by @lozticon on Instagram (below).