BONUS BLOG: “Don’t Apologize for Doing Your Job Well,” VP Harris said

With gratitude to a super friend for pointing me to this —

Vice President Harris never called a little girl cute or commented on her outfit; instead, she’d say, “You look like the smartest person in your class.” The vice president would say, “Let me hear you say, ‘I am a leader,’ ” and even the youngest girls would say it back. I filmed hundreds of clips of Kamala Harris telling young people to believe in themselves because they can achieve anything. And I noticed myself changing my conversations with my nieces, stopping myself from commenting on their outfits and asking instead about the thoughts in their heads.

One time, I needed the vice president to redo a line for a video, and I started out by apologizing, saying, “Ma’am, I’m so sorry, just one more time” before she interrupted me, “Don’t apologize for doing your job well.” From then on, whenever my instinct was to minimize myself, I would consider what my boss had told—and showed—me.

SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-videographer-wish-could-183600207.html