Girl Power Hour

Last night Jeanna and I decided to attend Girl Power Hour, which is a monthly social networking experience for young professional women in Seattle. The event was supposed to be a “stylishly inviting environment conducive to meeting other cool women, sharing ideas, inspiring each other and connecting on a personal or business level, over cocktails.” The goal is “to get like-minded women together in a comfortable environment that facilitates relationship building in a non-threatening way, allowing socializing and networking to occur naturally.” Sounded like a pretty sweet deal to me. I loved the idea of an opportunity to meet other fabulous ladies in a situation where they would be no men to complication the experience or create pressure / competitiveness. I convinced my co-worker, Joni, to come along and check it out.

Held at Solo, the same location of Jeanna’s birthday party, we arrived in style to red carpet – fancy! The tables contained tasty little pink cupcakes and appetizers, and the bar provided fantastic drink specials for the ladies. After sipping our cocktails and socializing for a while, the co-founders of Girl Power Hour, Darnell Sue and Samantha Lawton, got up and talked about one of the evening’s sponsors: Women of Purpose. At a table in the corner the organization was selling beautiful, hand-crafted necklaces made especially for the event, and they had come directly from women in Thailand. By purchasing a necklace the proceeds would go directly back to those women – pretty awesome. (I would have bought a necklace but by the time I got there they had all been snagged, bummer).

Afterward, author Rebecca Agiewich talked about her book, Breakup Babe (also available at the event), and read some funny excerpts about her cheating boyfriend, which I’m sure everyone could relate to in some way or another. The night ended with some killer door prizes and I actually met some very nice women before the night was over. We left with a swanky bag full of goodies that was more than worth the $10 cover charge.

I definitely plan on attending the next Girl Power Hour (they occur on the third Thursday of each month). Let me know if you want to come and partake in what the girls call “changing the social norms of run-of-the-mill women’s networking groups.” Bottom line: cocktails make any get-together more fun.