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\"We're hoping everyone will join us. Post a picture or a story of a woman who helped them with [the hashtag] #LeanInTogether, and we want people to really see what's happening there, which is that we are moving to equality,\" she said. \"Women are going to have half of the top jobs. Women are going to reach for any dream. We're not going to be told we can't. And we're going to tell each other we can.\"

Sandberg credits Facebook's Lori Goler and \"The Huffington Post\" co-founder Arianna Huffington, as being strong influences in her life.

Huffington \"has been for a very long time a source of great career advice for me, but also a personal shoulder to cry on, which I needed,\" she said.

Sandberg wrote the 2013 bestselling book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” in 2013 and founded the related nonprofit foundation, LeanIn.org, to help women achieve their goals through education, community and “Lean In” circles, a network of small groups where women meet to practice new skills and support each other.

‘I Miss Dave Still’

Sandberg told Robach that is was the “Lean In” community which helped her cope after her husband died.

The 46-year-old mother of two said she was doing better but added: “It’s still a struggle. You know, I miss Dave still. But I know I don’t have any choice other than to keep going. And I keep going because I look deep and find a resilience inside myself ... But also because I’m surrounded by the support of a lot of people, a lot of women who have really supported me.”

Sandberg said she had to “dig deep” and “and find the belief in myself that I could keep going, that I could -- you know, do function as a single mother, that I would be able to do my job and take care of my children.

“You know, I have resources others don't have, and I'm aware of that. And I'm grateful for that,” she added. “And I think we need to do a much better job supporting single mothers. Because there are so many out there who need our help and often the people who need us the most as a society, we abandon. And we need to change that.”

Sandberg said her greatest hope for the new campaign was that people recognize that women are already supporting each other.

“We will celebrate the women who are helping us. We will get rid of the myth that women are other women's worst enemies, because they're not. And we will start celebrating leadership in women and little girls everywhere,” she said

More information about the “Together Women Can” campaign can be found on LeanIn.org.

Sheryl Sandberg is a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company, the parent company of ABC News.

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