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Powerhouse Invictus Women--Dani Speegle, Devyn Kim, Jessi Smith and Megan Rasich--Start "Nice Girls Book Club"
CrossFit Invictus training camp powerhouse members Devyn Kim, Dani Speegle, Megan Rasich, and Jessi Smith are coming together to spearhead a new book club for women in the CrossFit community and beyond. While the club will, of course, be focused on bringing people together with a monthly book, there’s also an emphasis on empowerment, empathy, and growing friendships.
The book club, called “The Nice Girls Book Club,” will read a book (or possibly a few) together each month, and come together to discuss it through Zoom calls and Instagram posts. The women talked about how each of them have individually benefitted from reading in their own lives, as well as how it has brought them all together as friends, and they wanted to share that with the world.
“I think the ability to meet more people, especially in the CrossFit space but in a different light (is important),” Smith said. “We have a friend who joked that we don’t make any friends outside of the CrossFit space so I think this is good for us to branch out and meet people in different walks of life, learn about them, and talk about something we have in common.”
While the experience so far has been overwhelmingly positive for the club’s leaders, it didn’t come without some apprehension and hard work.
There are, of course, kinks to work out, like finding a timezone that works for all participants and how to deal with an audience that is growing so rapidly. Plus, with all four of the women being elite athletes, they were also worried that the club might be taken advantage of.
“I was a little hesitant at first to start the Zoom calls because I was like, are people just going to get on here and be like, ‘oh my God, I’m talking to these CrossFitters?’” Speegle said. “But it was none of that. Immediately everyone was like, ‘let’s talk about the book!’ It was this beautiful thing that we could bring all of these people together and it didn’t have to be able who we were, it was just women coming together to talk about a book.”
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I’ve seen a version of this sign hanging above the entrance of many CrossFit gyms.
Unfortunately, that’s often the extent of the conversation about what to do with our egos–to the detriment of members, coaches, and the affiliate itself.
We know we’re supposed to leave our egos in the parking lot, but few know how.
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