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Life has always brought me gifts… When I decided to teach at Insper, where I taught for seven years and created the Change Management discipline for the postgraduate course in Project Management, I was motivated by an invitation from a former client and friend, Guy Cliquet. He valued my work and understood the importance of a structured methodology to impact organizational behavior. At the time, my goal was to invest in a second career. Something that brought purpose, could be reconciled with my activities as a Director at Accenture and provided me with moments of study and reflection. But what I didn't know was that this action could inspire and connect me with young people (mostly women) who sought change to promote a better world. And that's how I met these two beauties! Two nieces, as I like to call them. Women, young, beautiful, intelligent, privileged, but dissatisfied with inequality and opportunities for minorities, especially women. Unhappy with the role of women in a sexist world, confident in their power to transform and eager for knowledge and connections, they stood out. I confess that I see a lot of the young Sandra in them. Perhaps this identification was the point of connection: my admiration when I saw them dare to approach me and, in a unique way, “put me on the spot”, asking to be part of my organizational and personal world. How can you say no to someone who asks for something you always wanted to have the courage to ask for? How can you deny something that, for so long, you thought you didn’t deserve? How can you ignore the requests of young women who reaffirm that you are on the right path, even when society insists on telling you that you don’t belong there? Amanda and Karol are just like I wish I had been: free, firm, delicate, sensitive and restless. In the podcast, we recorded spontaneous conversations about how this new generation can inspire us to be who we really want to be. We talked about accepting our mistakes, abandoning the pursuit of perfection and challenging social expectations: to be a mother or not, to seek a partner or to go it alone, to pursue a career or just to work? In short, about WANTING, BEING ABLE and SHOULD be whoever we want to be in a world full of rules and expectations. Thank you, my beauties, for always bringing out the best in me. I hope you enjoy our conversation too and share it with those you want to inspire.