I arrived in New Orleans with a quiet fear I didn’t want to admit out loud. I didn’t think I knew a single woman attending. And if I’m honest, I carried the same hesitation many women do — the belief that women can be our own worst critics. We judge quickly. We compete silently. We talk ourselves out of introducing ourselves because we assume she won’t be approachable. I expected some version of that. What I discovered at the NKBA Women to Women Conference could not have been