The emotional outpouring is understandable: Purl’s message is, after all, a beautiful one. Not only does it remind us of the importance of having lots of different voices in the room, but it also stresses the need to build the sisterhood and shine our light on other women.

Or as Marysol Castro, the first-ever Latina public address announcer in Major League Baseball and the first woman announcer for the New York Mets, put it to Forbes, we need to “make room at the table and pave the way, so that younger women might have it just a bit easier on the way up”.

“We’re in it because there’s a whole slew of women behind us who we have to do that for,” she said. “And I don’t take that lightly.”

And for those women, Wilson had this advice: “Focus on what you are doing, forge ahead with your passion, and remind yourself that you are your own unique force.”

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