LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - It was a day filled with motivation and inspiration in Lake Charles, where the Women’s Commission of Southwest Louisiana hosted its annual fall conference.

Headlining the event was six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner Kersee, known for her record-breaking success in track and field and her decades of advocacy and work.

“Others will try to pull you down, and put you in a space where now you’re feeling stressed, you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, and then you’re questioning everything, and then you start questioning your own integrity. I would say stay true to who you are and know excellence is excellence,” Joyner-Kersee said.

The 35th president of the Women’s Commission of Southwest Louisiana, Inc., Dorothy Lager, shared how the organization aims to insp

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