Meet our featured beauty with brains Shannon Miriah, a law enforcement officer based in Colorado, USA.
She is 31 years old, lives in southwest Colorado and has been in law enforcement for about 2.5 years, 6ish including dispatching. Hostage negotiator, possibly SWAT team in the nearish future. She enjoys baking, music, working out, reading, hunting, fishing. She feels she can be “one of the guys” but also enjoy being a girl.
Here is an interview with her.
1. What are your hobbies, dreams and aspirations?
I have many different hobbies. I enjoy running and for the most part lifting weights. I like riding horses, although I am very novice! Fishing, hunting (also novice on this one). I love to read and enjoy knitting.
My dreams include living on a nice piece of land in SW Colorado, where I can have a garden and some animals (I want goats so bad!). I also hope to travel. I would love to go to Ireland, Italy, England, Spain… everywhere!
I aspire to be the best I can be in my field and to keep learning. I also aspire to be the best human I can be. I want to improve upon myself, and hope to be able to help people going through difficult times, by sharing difficult times I have been through.
2. What does a typical day in your life look like?
Honestly, my days vary so much it’s difficult to say what a “typical” day is. I work night shift, so a typical work day is me waking up around 3 pm, drinking a cup or two of coffee, getting in some sort of workout, then showering and heading off to work. Days off, I wake up mid-morning, drink coffee, and catch up on house work.
3. What does women empowerment mean to you?
I believe I take a pretty different view of women empowerment than a lot of people. In a way, I believe women have concentrated in giving so much “equality” to women, that we have negatively tilted the scales. I do take great pride in being a strong, independent woman and being able to be “one of the guys.” I also enjoy being able to take “advantage” of different aspects of being a woman.
Because I am a woman, if I choose to have a child and breastfeed, my place of employment has to accommodate me. Because I am a woman, people tend to think twice about fighting with me, and I’m able to talk people down better than most men. I don’t want to be treated equally to men.
I can be strong, and stand up for myself, but when needed, I can let the man handle the job. I can shoot a gun, kill an animal, change out a light fixture. But I can also ask my man to do it for me.
Women empowerment to me, means being proud of every aspect of being a woman, and not complaining about being treated “different.” We ARE different, and it’s a beautiful thing!
4. Have you faced any gender based obstacles in your personal and professional lives?
Not as many as you may think. I have actually found the opposite, that being a woman in a man-dominated field has worked to my advantage. It’s often appreciated to be a more “sensitive” individual. However, my guys also know I can take care of myself and won’t take crap from anyone.
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