Press "Enter" to skip to content

Women Entrepreneurship | Penelope Shihab | TEDxJubileeSchool


to be a mother to be a scientist to be

an entrepreneur is a choice to be

successful in all of those at the same

time is a whole another choice so the

big question is can be can we be

successful tough take my word

yes but tough I will take you through my

life my 20s my 30s and my 40s so you can

have a river or what are the challenges

we face over age in my 20s in all our

20s we face the struggle of balancing

between our professional life and our

married life we want to make the best of

both of them the workplace is very

challenging everyone everyone wants to

excel on the other hand we want a happy

healthy kids can we have all of those

together can we be good in everything at

the same time without each other support

I don’t think we can so the first step

is to be nice with everyone and to get

each other’s work we don’t have always

our – we don’t have always have the

choices we want in our life an example

in front of you I wanted to be a

journalist my father my mother family

wanted me to become a doctor pharmacist

or an engineer I debated my father I

wanted to be a journalist

I used to tell him I am talented in

writing I love writing I love adventure

I’m very curious person and he used to

tell me Penelope journalism is not good

for you

it’s not for you it’s not for us and I

never let my family down

so I did what they wanted me to do and

that was a turning point in my life that

I didn’t take the decision of my future

it’s a big turning point in my life and

this is step number one always fight for

your decisions fight for your choices as

a human being in the arc as an

entrepreneur our culture and our society

are influencing our career choices they

are even telling us when to get married

when to start family it’s the influence

of the culture and most of the time we

find ourself making an excuses for

unachieved for failure blaming the

today today with all of those challenges

in our life we don’t have other options

but to convert these challenges into

opportunities and how by our choices

when you choose when you feel that you

can accomplish you feel that you believe

in yourself that you can be a winner you

will find your own source of

you will find your own source of

confidence and what that what exactly I

did in my thirties I had a wonderful

family amazing four kids a rewarding job

a caring husband deep inside I wasn’t

happy Ted I wanted to live my life by my

own way I wanted to take my decisions I

wanted to have my choices and for the

first for the first time in my life I

took the decision was to quit my job and

to take the first step into the world of

entrepreneurship that was a tough

decision

everyone everyone from my neighbor’s my

friends my family who used to support me

in my 20s they came up to me and told me

Tinnell appear like you are just crazy

you are crazy you’re living a very

stable position into the uncertainity

you will end up nowhere innovation

technology research and development

entrepreneurship are not for women it’s

very challenging and what does it take

to be an entrepreneur in other hand in

other words what does it take to be a

entrepreneur in the arab world very

tough very tough

but doable entrepreneurship main pillars

are motivation to be and motivation can

be achieved by you choose what you like

to do and when you choose what you like

to do you will live and love what you do

you will go every day to your word

driven passionate happy you accomplish

you will get the confidence there you

will feel I am confident I am winner I

am achiever I can do more and when you

go more and more you will feel more and

more confident and you will make a

difference at the end and you will get

your dreams true to be a an entrepreneur

you have to be a test a risk-taker you

have to be persistent you can’t stop

there it’s just you can’t stop you need

to keep going you have to be very very

competitive you have to fight for

yourself and to think big to see global

in my 40s I just started 40s and my

vision to life has changed I used to be

very very competitive a fighter and

always I put my milestones and goals

short term long term and start running

to achieve them my age you start to look

to life in a different world different

like different weights so my vision

today is yes you can achieve but what

you go through today shapes you who you

are tomorrow so what do you want to be

tomorrow you want to be successful

winner happy rich chap

what exactly is your goal in life you

guys are a good example of youth strong

you’re smart you’ve enjoyed and I’m

always proud of you wherever I go you

always globally a word that you’re

always in the first place wherever you

go and you always make all of us proud

this is an example of Jordan of who can

achieve today I look to live as a leader

and I wanted to create more leaders to

inspire people I want to teach people

how to make money I want to teach how to

have a vision I want to make people

fighting the challenges converting them

into opportunities and got those

opportunities tangibles

all of us as Jordanian especially women

to be recognized globally by

achievements can we do this can we be

they’re tough but we can I did that and

we are not less than anybody else in the

world take this from me because this is

my personal life journey are not less

than anybody else in the world it’s our

turn today by this advanced technology

by this research and development to make

a difference in this world and we can

make this difference we started and you

continue so don’t get anybody influence

your choice choose what you want what

you feel good for you but you feel you

like doing and today I’m happy and

always available for anyone who wants to

be the entrepreneur of tomorrow thank you very much

Please follow and like us: