Patricia DuChene’s Post

I don't want to brag, but I have a lot of veryyy smart friends. DVMs. MDs. JDs. MBAs. 
I even have one friend with an MD and a JD. (He's crazy. We know.) School was hard for me. I was good at it, but I had to work for it. I ran out of University of California, Davis with my BS barely intact. It was a means to an end. All I wanted was to control my own destiny and earn my own paycheck. …which is probably why sales grabbed me so early. (I still remember my first commission check 🙌) But when you're surrounded by people whose careers took a decade of school to earn, the imposter syndrome creeps in. They had professions. I had a job. Then I spent 15+ years refining a skill, building a network, finding little wins and woke up one day realizing that sales IS a profession 🔥 Being good at it means respecting it like one. (My team is reading this and rolling their eyes because I say it constantly.) Which brings me to last week. I'm at Disneyland with the family, mid-negotiation with a five year old about why a strawberry popsicle is not a smoothie and does not count as breakfast at 8am. My phone starts lighting up like 🎁 Tyler Bernstein needing eyes on an EOQ deal. I've been named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Sales by Women in Sales & The ABM Agency Devastated toddler in one hand. Phone in the other. (tbh I was not giving power vibes in this exact moment 😅) I'm so honored to be on this list, and grateful to have found a profession I genuinely love and a community I love working with. It motivates me, and it pays for a life I really love living. 🧡 PS - the DuChene parents caved around 930am and bought their toddler a “popsicle smoothie”