A friend and I had a great opportunity to attend another BPW chapter's event this past weekend. It was a Women's Expo sponsored by there club and the keynote speaker was Erin Brockovich. Yes the real Erin Brockovich not Julie Roberts. No Julie Roberts looked nothing like the real person but from the interviews I have seen over the years and the way the real Erin described herself, it seems as though the personalities could be the same.
A real inspirational story she told about her life from growing up in Kansas, two failed marriages, 3 young children to raise on her own, and the struggle to "do right" that the film portrayed. She has definitely went through the trials and tribulations but her "15 minutes of fame" has now seemed to brought her to a great place.
She told about an "ahh moment" that basically was the center of the story in the movie that pretty much seemed to bring her life full circle for her. She passed along a story about an incident that happened when she was growing up where she decided to skip school with some friends, her mother had drove her to school and dropped her off and Erin immediately walked into school and walked out the back door to meet up with the friends. She decided to return home before meeting up with the friends to retrieve some things. She wanted to leave a note for some other friends who hadn't met up with her yet. She proceeded to give full directions to where she would be, and tacked them on the front door. A short time later her mother appeared at one of the friends house with directions in hand when Erin opened the door. Her mother informed her she would get punished after her father who was a career military returned home that night. After she relayed the story to him with some more lies here and their her father gave her an entire semester grounding: no phone, no friends, no privileges. To add to it her father wrote her a letter expressing the importance of honesty and how deceit can change one's life.
She said that letter that he sent her she has kept all these years and referred to it when she was investigation the now famous California case on the Chromium 6 toxic exposure case. Her father's words of stick to who you are, don't change your moral standings for others and that deceit can create long term problems helped lead her in the path she continues today. Also her ability or "stick-to-it-ive-ness" or persistence or whatever word you care to use hers is the stick-to-it-ive-ness allows her to continue her work on environmental issues.
It made me think about how people today try to wrangle there way out of issues by lying and half truths but as she said in the end it will come back to haunt you. What an amazing gal, if you ever get the chance to hear her speak you won't be disappointed. She can be a little raw for some who don't have what she calls "potty mouth" but she's working on that...check out her website also www.brockovich.com
A real inspirational story she told about her life from growing up in Kansas, two failed marriages, 3 young children to raise on her own, and the struggle to "do right" that the film portrayed. She has definitely went through the trials and tribulations but her "15 minutes of fame" has now seemed to brought her to a great place.
She told about an "ahh moment" that basically was the center of the story in the movie that pretty much seemed to bring her life full circle for her. She passed along a story about an incident that happened when she was growing up where she decided to skip school with some friends, her mother had drove her to school and dropped her off and Erin immediately walked into school and walked out the back door to meet up with the friends. She decided to return home before meeting up with the friends to retrieve some things. She wanted to leave a note for some other friends who hadn't met up with her yet. She proceeded to give full directions to where she would be, and tacked them on the front door. A short time later her mother appeared at one of the friends house with directions in hand when Erin opened the door. Her mother informed her she would get punished after her father who was a career military returned home that night. After she relayed the story to him with some more lies here and their her father gave her an entire semester grounding: no phone, no friends, no privileges. To add to it her father wrote her a letter expressing the importance of honesty and how deceit can change one's life.
She said that letter that he sent her she has kept all these years and referred to it when she was investigation the now famous California case on the Chromium 6 toxic exposure case. Her father's words of stick to who you are, don't change your moral standings for others and that deceit can create long term problems helped lead her in the path she continues today. Also her ability or "stick-to-it-ive-ness" or persistence or whatever word you care to use hers is the stick-to-it-ive-ness allows her to continue her work on environmental issues.
It made me think about how people today try to wrangle there way out of issues by lying and half truths but as she said in the end it will come back to haunt you. What an amazing gal, if you ever get the chance to hear her speak you won't be disappointed. She can be a little raw for some who don't have what she calls "potty mouth" but she's working on that...check out her website also www.brockovich.com
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