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The Visibility Compendium, July 2019

We covered some juicy topics in July; the one thing you can’t be doing if you want to call yourself an intersectional feminist, the visibility flavour of entrepreneurship, the value of listening if you want to be a good leader, and one key action to take if you’re feeling depleted, particularly as a mother. Below is where you can scroll through everything we shared and catch up on all the goodness. So grab a cup of tea, wine, or kombucha and let’s get into it!

FROM THE BLOG

Failure to act
[Topics: visibility blocks | women speaking up]
‘…in encouraging you to take action, I’m not suggesting you quit your job and spend every waking minute initiating conversations about race or class or sexuality.

I’m saying, when the situation arises, have the courage to speak up.

I can think of many people in my life who haven’t spoken up in

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Entrepreneurial visibility has a flavour all of its own

Visibility challenges are not all created equal.

Here’s one big difference; what it takes to speak up and feel confident talking about things you don’t have a personal investment in, versus speaking up about your own work (programs, services, products that you’ve created and nurtured into being).

If you’re an entrepreneur you’ll know what I mean. There’s a level of courage and vulnerability that’s needed to put your work into the world, to declare it worthy of consideration – not because someone gave you a seal of approval but because you know it to be so. There’s a level of confidence that’s needed to continue to tell more and more people about your work and not feel like you’re harassing them, or ‘being a bother’, or being scammy.

Entrepreneurial visibility requires a type of courage that – as women – we’re not conditioned to feel comfortable with.

As a gender … [Read More...]

The Visibility Compendium, June 2019

We covered a range of topics in June; visibility upper limits, visibility lessons for business, Below is where you can scroll through everything we shared and catch up on all the goodness. So grab a cup of tea and let’s get into it!

FROM THE BLOG

Are you fully expressed?
[Topics: visibility blocks | upper limits]
‘…if you’d asked me before doing the ‘I am fully expressed’ work whether there was much room for movement in this area, I would have said no. I felt good about my self expression.

And the shift that’s occurred has been in the form of a refinement, or redirection, rather than a radical 180 degree turn around. What it has done – and this has made all the difference in the world – has been to bring my method of self expression more fully into alignment with my visibility desires.’

Read the rest here.

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Lessons in irreplaceability by Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Gabrielle Chanel

Were you either picked on as a child or did you see other people get picked on for being different from the crowd? I clearly remember a game called ‘The odd one out’ where everyone would stand around in a circle and you’d wait for the instigator of the game to come up with a reason to reject you for being different.

Awful.

And, of course, it sent a clear message; ‘Do everything you can to fit in.’

Which is fine for some careers. But when you start your own business or you’re a creative, fitting in is a death nail in the coffin of your career. It’s vitally important that you stand out. That you’re memorable in some way.

You don’t have to be wildly different like Lady Gaga, but you do need to reach for those … [Read More...]

Are you fully expressed?

It all started last week when I was running the first of a series of energetic up-levelling classes around visibility with my ‘A Visible Woman’ students.

The classes take you through a process to identify your visibility ceiling; the place you just can’t seem to break through in the pursuit of being seen and heard by the people you’re here to reach.

That might look like reaching 1,000 subscribers, or 10,000 IG followers, or getting people to engage with your social posts, or scoring an interview on the podcast you really love.

Whatever it is, in the class you start by establishing where you currently are and then you work through a clearing process that sees you raising your energetic ceiling. That means that when you do hit that 1,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 you can comfortably sit in that level of visibility without freaking out and sabotaging yourself.… [Read More...]