"We found each other. We are just meant to be."
I remember that Dee was laughing when she said this line.
I got to know them via Zoom. Dee, Shaheena, Celestine, Nadhia, and Luna. The five of them are members of the Indonesia team at Girl Power Talk. Throughout one and a half hour of online discussion, I felt impressed by how this organization has put its commitment to advocating for several issues related to gender and women empowerment.
The question is: "How did these five women find Girl Power Talk?"
The story began with Dee April, an Associate for Marketing & PR at Girl Power Talk. She was the first Indonesian to join the company. From the very first time she saw the job advertisement, Dee's intuition told her that Girl Power Talk was the right place for her. So she ignored the other three job invitations she received then. "This is where I belong ... where girls have fun and make movements towards social change."
"Movements" was also the term that attracted Titania Celestine & Nadhia Tiara Astari to join the organization. Both of them serve as Young Leaders for Content & Media Team at Girl Power Talk. Celestine believes that the workplace should be an avenue to channel a voice, in this case, toward issues of women empowerment, something she has been keen about since college.
Nadhia found that the name "Girl Power Talk" itself is very direct and powerful. She said, "They use keywords like 'elevate women', 'social impact', and 'empowerment'. I was really intrigued by that, because I never worked with a company that really values elevating girls."
But "movements" is not the only powerful word that intrigued these girls to join Girl Power Talk. The story from Shaheena Kishnani and Luna Kania are no less inspiring. They are the living proof of how Girl Power Talk continues to provide opportunities for girls to fully realize their potential.
Living in the capital city of Jakarta, Shaheena, an Associate for Marketing & PR, had to spend her college years studying online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation got worse when it came to her trying to secure a job as a fresh graduate at the time. She wondered, "How do I find a job in a circumstance like this?"
Meanwhile Luna, a Sr. Associate for Content & Media, was at her crossroads. Trying to switch her career from a dentist to a writer. There was no company that would accept her to work as a content writer, since she doesn't have enough experience in writing. But when she entered her eighth month of job-seeking, Luna found a vacancy at Girl Power Talk where the qualifications matched hers.
