Name: Your Work May Not Benefit You (And That's the Point)
Uploaded: 2025-12-08T18:00:23.000Z
Duration: 75
Description: When Laurie McGraw asked Ambassador Shefali Razdan Duggal what she tells young women aspiring to leadership, she started with an image. The ambassador wall at...

When Laurie McGraw asked Ambassador Shefali Razdan Duggal what she tells young women aspiring to leadership, she started with an image. The ambassador wall at the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands. In the center: John Adams, first U.S. ambassador to any country. Right next to him: her picture, the first person of color to serve in that role.

"I cannot tell you how many women of color specifically would come and they would just look at it and start crying. Dutch women of color, women from the State Department that happened to be coming through."

Shefali knows what it means to work incredibly hard and not see immediate results. She knows what it feels like to be overlooked. So when she tells women not to let unfairness become permanent, to get up and work hard anyway, she's speaking from experience. The reason to do it isn't for yourself alone. The person behind you needs you to clear the path, even if you never get credit for it. Even if the results come for someone else.

"You may not see the result of all your work right now. You may not. I hope you do, but your work will benefit hopefully you, but definitely someone coming up after you and that's why you should do it."

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