6 Ways to Step Into Your Power
We're living out loud, and it's time you joined us.
Too many brilliant women are still shrinking themselves, dimming their light, and playing small in spaces where they have every right to take up room. If you're tired of apologizing for your ambition and ready to step fully into your power, these six strategies will transform how you show up in business and life.
1. Own Your Story, Don't Let It Own You
Every struggle is your power source, not baggage. Stop apologizing for your background and lead with your truth - it's your superpower, not your shame.
Your journey - every challenge you've overcome, every moment you had to figure it out alone - that's not something to minimize in professional settings. It's the foundation of your resilience and the source of your unique perspective. When you own your story instead of hiding from it, you command respect and authenticity that can't be replicated.
2. Speak Your Truth, Even When Your Voice Shakes
Stop waiting for permission to take up space. You belong in that room. Your voice carries wisdom from places others have never been.
There's this thing we do - we wait for the perfect moment, the right credentials, the invitation to share our ideas. Stop waiting. That boardroom you walked into? You earned your seat there. That meeting where everyone's dancing around the real issue? Say what needs saying. Your perspective matters, and when you speak from that authentic place, you create change.
3. Build Your Own Table When They Won't Make Room
Stop begging for a seat when you can build your own table. Create the opportunities and spaces where you and others can thrive.
You've spent enough time trying to squeeze yourself into spaces that weren't designed for you. Instead of exhausting yourself trying to fit in, create the opportunities, networks, and platforms where you and other ambitious women can flourish. When you stop asking for inclusion and start creating it, you become unstoppable.
4. Embrace Your Contradictions
You can be soft and fierce, spiritual and strategic. Your complexity is your strength, not confusion. Stop fitting into boxes that make others comfortable.
You don't have to choose between being compassionate and being tough, between being collaborative and being competitive. Your ability to hold multiple truths, to be strategic and heart-centered, to negotiate million-dollar deals while staying true to your values - that complexity is what makes you powerful. Stop trying to fit into neat categories that limit your potential.
5. Trust Your Intuition Like Your Life Depends on It
That inner voice is intelligence, not just instinct. When something feels off, it is. When opportunity feels right, take it.
Your intuition has guided you through every major decision that got you where you are today. Stop second-guessing what you know in your bones. In business, that gut feeling about a partnership, that sense that something isn't right in a negotiation, that excitement about a new direction - trust it. Your intuition is data, and it's often more accurate than any spreadsheet.
6. Don't Shrink Yourself
Stop making yourself smaller to fit other people's comfort zones. Your full presence - your ideas, your energy, your ambition - belongs in every space you enter. When you dim your light, you rob the world of what only you can offer.
This is the big one. Every room you enter, every conversation you join, every opportunity you pursue - you have the right to show up as your complete, unapologetic self. Your energy, your ideas, your ambition aren't too much. They're exactly what's needed.
Living Out Loud
You've survived 100% of your worst days. Now thrive through your best ones - unapologetically and out loud.
The world needs what you have to offer. Not a watered-down version, not a more palatable version, but the full, brilliant, complex, powerful version of who you are. When you step into that power and model what's possible, you don't just change your own life - you change the game for every woman watching.
It's time to stop playing small. The stage is set, the spotlight is ready, and your moment is now.
