L-R: Sutton, Jane, and Kat making a toast for adventures and all that. (Meghann Fahy, Katie Stevens, and Aisha Dee)
Every time I watch The Bold Type, I feel motivated and inspired.
1. Rising in the corporate ladder doesn’t need gossips and back stabbing.
Kat, Jane, and Sutton are best friends. Each of them started as secretaries or assistants. Well, Kat was promoted right after two days, if I remember it correctly, to be Scarlet’s Social Media Director. Jane got her dream job – to be a writer, after four years of being an editorial assistant, and Sutton? Sutton took a longer road. But, none of these girls did the back stabbing and gossiped behind the other’s back just to be where they are. Why? Because friends don’t do that. Friends got your back, no pulling someone down. Friends use the Find My Friend App to track you when you got roofied! (Or look for you when you say you are at the office but you clearly are not?) They’d even get that Yogi egg stuck in your poonani (or va-jay-jay), in the wardrobe room.
And please do note. They celebrated Jane’s promotion in the wardrobe room but since someone was needed for work, they postponed the celebration. They had to celebrate it together. Together.
2. Speak for yourself
2. Speak for yourself
Don’t let the bullies bully you, fella. Don’t let them hold you back.
Remember that photo shoot when Cassie took the credit from Sutton? Sutton did all the work for that because the one in-charged panicked because of the lay-off rumors. How dare her? Leaving your team mate behind and suddenly getting all the credit for what she did? Good thing Jacqueline learned about it.
So next time, darlings, don’t be afraid to speak for yourself. It helps you keep your job, and it also helps you show your worth to people. To show them that their power tripping is not working with you. But most of the time, speaking up also helps ease the problems – not just for credit grabbing problems.
So next time, darlings, don’t be afraid to speak for yourself. It helps you keep your job, and it also helps you show your worth to people. To show them that their power tripping is not working with you. But most of the time, speaking up also helps ease the problems – not just for credit grabbing problems.
3. You can be a boss without being a bitch and a dick or a jerk.
No need for The Devil Wears Prada attitude.
If you watched The Bold Type, you are probably envious of the girls having THE Jacqueline Carlyle as their boss! The boss who pushes you to be out of your comfort zone, for you to learn more things. The boss who doesn’t shout at you whether you are with your colleagues or not. The boss who pulls the patriarchy down with her stilettos, and even walks on the treadmill with it. The boss who’s your sounding board for your personal-family-relationship issues. The boss who doesn’t go with the power tripping route. The boss who lets you do your own decisions, making you feel empowered. The boss who believes in your potential to be exceptional and tells you not to be sorry when you really shouldn’t be.
The boss who would even have drinks with you, in the office.
And most especially, the boss who wouldn’t stop you from leaving your job because she knows you have your own decisions and you have to grow in the way you want to.
She’s there to support you. The boss who is happy seeing you happy. The boss who expects you to fall in love, get your heart broken, make adventures, commit mistakes and make amends, take a leap, have sex with the wrong people and the right ones, to unleash the holy hell to everyone who holds you back. Like, where on Earth are you, Jacqueline?
The boss who would even have drinks with you, in the office.
And most especially, the boss who wouldn’t stop you from leaving your job because she knows you have your own decisions and you have to grow in the way you want to.
She’s there to support you. The boss who is happy seeing you happy. The boss who expects you to fall in love, get your heart broken, make adventures, commit mistakes and make amends, take a leap, have sex with the wrong people and the right ones, to unleash the holy hell to everyone who holds you back. Like, where on Earth are you, Jacqueline?
Kat had someone under her supervision. She did what she can to improve her staff’s work but may it be tough love or soft love, working side by side, it just didn’t work. Kat didn’t become a bitch. Kat didn’t scold her for her mistakes. Instead, she did the right thing to do – talked to her together with the HR.
Remember: Be the boss you wish to have.
4. It’s OK to to fall in love and fight for it.
“I should’ve fought for you,” Richard told Sutton. I guess that explains it all.
OK. Richard is a super, super, supervisor, probably the head of the Legal Department, compared to Sutton. And age gap of course. We have seen those -- people’s eyes and whatevers when they learn you are dating a co-worker. The workplace romance became trickier because of who they are in the company but again, “I SHOULD’VE FOUGHT FOR YOU.” Yes, The Bold Type babies. Let’s put that on repeat. (I am a SuttArd Fan. Sorry, SAlex.)
5. Don’t stop yourself from having adventures.
Kat has been stuck in the same place for years. No passport and all not until Adena came. I think Adena was her greatest adventure, but the kind of adventure that you will stay and keep running for. Adena made Kat brave – brave enough to take a leap out of her desk and fly to wherever and get those stamps on her passport.
She always say she couldn’t be brave. We always say we can’t but, oh, sweetheart, we can. Not only for someone else but for ourselves, too.
6. Choosing what scares you the most is probably the best choice to do.
Take a leap and make a splash!
Jane did that leap. She let go off Scarlet and Jacqueline didn’t stop her.
Jacqueline even told her, without knowing Jane’s plans, that during the time she needed to choose whether she will take on the job of being Scarlet’s new editor-in-chief, it scared her the most because of the risks. But that was also when she knew she was making the right decision.
Two years ago, we had our planning session and we were asked What are you ready for this year at work? I answered, I am ready to leap or jump. Jumping from one place is scary but do remember that if you won’t, you’d get stuck in the same place. So take a leap and make a splash! But was I really able to?
7. Don’t let society put you in a box.
Society has its own way of putting us in the box, like Adena, a Muslim out lesbian.
She chooses to wear the Hijab. It doesn’t oppress her but instead, it liberates her from society’s expectations of what a woman should look like. Adena is the representation women, Muslim or not, needs to have. She breaks the forms of stereotypes on how a woman should be.
And the best thing I like about Adena, aside from she knows how to choose her battles is that, she understands Kat. She didn’t force Kat even if Kat already told her she’s coming with her. She assured Kat that if she wants to go, she has to go for herself and not for her. (HOW INDECISIVE OF KAT BUT WE KNOW, SHE’S KAT AND THAT INDECISIVENESS WAS THEN REPLACED WITH BRAVERY.) But I still didn’t like the part where she cheated with Coco. But yes, she admitted she did and she wasn’t happy with it and told the truth to her ex.
8. You can follow your dreams.
Sutton ripped that envelope of emergency cash. Sutton did not pursue that position on Sales even if that will give her designer shoes and clothes, and an own place to live. Because she wanted Fashion. She always had. And she chose it. She even fought for her compensation when she felt she doesn’t deserve that rate. She made barters, she spoke to Oliver with her conditions. I really loved that episode. Normally, we set aside our worth because we are scared to speak up, we are scared we might get rejected, so we just go with the flow. But Sutton gave me that I’m Norah Ephron, bitch! attitude. (This can also be on item 2, right?)
Following your dreams may take so many ups and downs, long turns and there might be less of short cuts but it would be worth it. Because it’s your happiness.
9. Mistakes are part of an adventure.
Make amends.
Remember when Jane was accused of defamation because she wrote an article about the lady stripper? Jane fought for it. Jane was so convinced she didn’t commit any mistakes, it was clear to her that what she has written was about women empowerment but no. She did something wrong and she has to own it up, by swallowing her pride that she’s not always right.
10. The NEW normal will make you stronger.
And it works so well that sometimes you don’t even know that it’s not.
The last episode has so much weight. Just like Jacqueline and Mia, there would be times in our lives that we will have bad and traumatic experiences that we will ask ourselves if we can still feel normal. Maybe we will, maybe we won’t, but these things, will make us find the new normal. These will make us realize how much of weight we still carry, making us recognize how stronger we have become.
And with that, I would like to add this:
11. It takes time
You can start to binge watch The Bold Type here: WATCH THE BOLD TYPE SEASON ONE
They already announced that they are renewed for not just one but two seasons! I cannot wait to see Season 2 and 3 of this FreeForm show!
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Nobody from The Bold Type asked me to do this. And I am so glad I was able to share this show to my friends at work and they loved it!
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