Glory
You're an American woman out to dinner with ten foreign men who work for your client. Although you didn't know what you were signing up for at the beginning of the night, the guys have brought you to a restaurant famous for its live squid: The squid is doused in a pot of boiling water and quickly dropped on a large platter in the middle of the table. It dances around like a chicken with its head cut off.
The men insist—laughing and joking all the while—that you try the squid. They aren't going to leave you alone until you man up, start crying, or vomit. More than that, your reputation is on the line here: Are you worthy of working with them, or not?
You smile and eat the squid. The guys clap and cheer. Some make lewd jokes at your expense. One of them even takes a video and posts it online without your consent. As you down the squid, you realize that some places—all fun-and-games-hazing aside—aren't yet capable of treating women with respect, but you rise above it. Maybe you could be an agent of change.
And that's what glory looks like when you work in international sales.