I am in Pretoria, South Africa on the beginning of my three-week tour across the country working with women entrepreneurs. In my first presentation on market positioning and elevator pitches, as I said a ‘thank you’ to the INCREDIBLE Femtrepreneurs, they gave me a big WooHoo! 12 success-driven high-tech women entrepreneurs waving their arms in the air in unison. It was awesome. Interestingly enough, there were around 60 other women in the audience who had never seen a WooHoo before. You could tell by the looks on their faces that they didn’t get it but were intrigued.

As the day progressed, the WooHoo’s started to spread. Women who had not been a part of the original WooHoo movement were now putting their hands in the air in celebrations big and small. By the end of the day, the CEO of The Innovation Hub, a male, incorporated a WooHoo into his closing address. Amazing as that seems, it didn’t stop there.

That evening we had dinner with the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry for South Africa, Elizabeth Thabethe, and by the end of the night, we had HER doing a WooHoo. Even unprovoked.

It has taken off and it is VIRAL. Are you in?

ADDENDUM: The fun did not stop there! In visiting Matthew Goniwe Memorial High School in Khayelitsha, a large township in Cape Town, we had the kids of the Youth Enterprise Society giving us THEIR WooHoo! Check out the video on YouTube.

Seems we’ve started something I pray will continue to spread for the good of all those who DON’T celebrate their lives…

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