It's no secret that I love this room. It's sorta my favorite room on Glow. I love how passionate the women here are and how ardently they voice their beliefs. But I think, in the midst of the good fight, we sometimes forget that we are talking to flesh and blood. To real women. With entire identities, goals, lives, mistakes, regrets, hopes and dreams that live outside of Glow.

So help us walk a mile in your shoes. Here, I'll start:

My shoes started their journey a long time and a long way away in Istanbul, Turkey. My parents were the quintessential immigrants, chasing a better future for their children. My shoes first set foot in America when I was a little older than 11. Without a word of English. Years of hard work followed. And teasing. Much teasing. I wasn't so much a nerd, as the queen of nerds. Thick coke-bottle glasses. Check. Hairy legs my mom refused to let me shave. Check. My mom as the head math teacher in my high school, and me in college level courses in calculus by the time I was 14. Check and check. But they say adversity leads to resilience, and they are not wrong. My shoes also walked me across the platform to receive my diploma from Harvard when I was only 20 years old. In the audience, cheering me on, was the man I would one day marry. My best friend and husband for the past 11 years. The rest of the story, most of you know, the years of the infertility, the painful treatments, and the miscarriage, followed by me giving up my entire career in finance for the fleeting opportunity to have children. And then a different path. A mother. And hopefully, gratefully, an advocate for women, and the very real issues we face. That's been my mile so far....

Please take a moment and walk us a mile in your shoes. What do you wish this community knew about you?