Strong women, powerful conversations
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, we hosted a panel discussion event with The Beauty Crop. The theme was ‘The voice of women’.
It was great to spend the day with with the strong women on our panel - Betty (survivor and entrepreneur), Emily Chalke (Co-Director at Ella’s), Ning Cheah (founder of The Beauty Crop), Timi Phillips (business leader), Rochenda Sandall (actor) and STORRY (singer and survivor) - plus many more in the audience.
Ella’s’ ambassador Sofia Jin was our host for the event, which took place at the beautiful Marazzi Showroom in London. There was bubbly, there were sweets, it was fabulous. And most importantly, the discussion was STRONG.
From left: STORRY, Rochenda Sandall and Timi Phillips.
During the panel discussion, we talked about architectural and data bias, gender pay gap, the motherhood penalty, self-confidence and the challenge of multiple disadvantages. We celebrated progress that’s been made, and discussed what’s needed to keep moving forward.
“Women are more prone than men to wait until they feel 100% prepared before we put ourselves out there. I’ve learnt that it’s good to be willing to screw up. Failure is an event, not a character trait.”
It left us feeling passionate and uplifted about ‘The voice of women’, and encouraged us to keep building each other up to change the world.
A beautiful performance by STORRY, accompanied by Francisco Catarro.
We were also so fortunate to have STORRY perform a song to complete the event, leaving us all teary-eyed.
“We (women) are not competition to one another. We need to take and make our own space. Let’s stop yelling at the boys’ club to let us in... and instead make new spaces... and build from the ground up.”
The guests left feeling empowered with a goodie bag from The Beauty Crop in hand. Thank you to all who attended and to our wonderful panelists!
We received a lot of positive feedback from the event and plan to hold more in the future. Sign up to receive our emails below, to stay in the loop.
