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I'm always thinking about power from two different

I'm always thinking about power from two different perspectives.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The power that institutions are built on. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
The type of power that sees white men occupying more than their rightful share of CEO roles, board positions, places in parliaments etc. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
We still have a lot of work to do in breaking down structural power and as Beyonce says, it's not something that's given to you freely. You have to agitate for it, be vocal about the inequities in the world, and often you have to step forward and take it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Then there's personal power. This one is more interesting to me in a lot of ways. I like it because it sits within the control of the individual. It speaks to your response to the circumstances in which you find yourself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You can have all the structural power in the world and still be a powerless individual. Just as you can have very little structural power and be an incredibly powerful individual. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Individual power isn't about taking, it's about claiming. It's about embodying what's already there; an energy that's accessible to all. One that people can try to take from you but which ultimately you choose to access within yourself. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Such is the gift of being a human being. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When all seems dark and when other people seem like they're never going to hand over the mic or share the space or acknowledge your presence, remember this; you are not as powerless as you might have been led to believe. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There is a path. It's a more challenging path than the one laid out for those pursuing structural power. But it's a much more fulfilling one and ultimately - when enough individuals come to embody their own power - it'll completely transform the look and feel of structural power forever.

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I used to have a lot of stories about this practice. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ “That’s cheating” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ “I don't want to bore people” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ “I would bother my audience if I re-shared content they had already consumed” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
→ "I need to create some new and shiny every single week" ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Underneath it all, the driving story was this; 'You have to work hard to succeed'. And beyond that was the story; 'People won't like you if things come too easily to you.' ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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These stories create significant blocks to becoming more visible in the world. They slow down your visibility efforts because you're on a constant treadmill of creating new and different and new and different. So there's never anytime to create a system that's scalable. Which means you never really have the chance to reach the people you're here to reach. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The first step in freeing yourself from this continual content production loop is to clear the inner stories driving your behaviour. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The Visibility Challenge is a great place to start with that. It's a short course that investigates, and clears out, the 4 most significant limiting beliefs that are stopping you from being seen and heard by more people. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Pick it up today so you can step off the treadmill once and for all.

So many stories. Absent from mainstream narrative

So many stories. Absent from mainstream narrative that excludes so many more than it invites to its table.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But not just stories. Actual people. People missing. From history yes. And from actual buildings too. Boardrooms and parliaments, television screens, award ceremonies, art gallery walls, public spaces and places.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And then there’s another layer. People are missing from life itself.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Girls are missing. Girls that were born and killed because they were girls.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Indigenous people are missing from old people’s homes. They’re dying before they have a chance to complain about the terrible food and the lack of visitors.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Children are missing from schools and black lives have been taken from the streets in a country where guns are celebrated as a right. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Absence. So much absence.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The more I ponder the question, the more I see the invisible everywhere. Like ghosts hovering in the corners. They’re waiting. Waiting for a sliver of light to highlight their existence.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How to see what’s invisible?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Challenge accepted @cassiemendozajones 😘❤️

Challenge accepted @cassiemendozajones 😘❤️

And a little reflection arising because we’re running a block clearing class on the sisterhood wound next week with our SOV member students so this is top of mind...

I’ve been thinking about how these initiatives can become a double edged sword. It’s a celebration of womanhood (yay!) AND I’m very conscious that it can trigger issues of belonging. So if you’re reading this and you identify as a woman (or non-binary or genderqueer) please consider yourself nominated. You’re my crew and I appreciate you deeply.

And a shout out to some special sisters who keep this smile on my face as I grow the School of Visibility @amandajanedaley, @megjberryman, @mitlesouthey, and @traceykaycoe and my amazing SOV students (you know who you are 😘).

You’re all incredible women and I’m honoured by your presence in my life. #womensupportingwomen #instanbulconventionsaveslives (edited to add this after discovering the origins of this movement and standing in solidarity with the women of Turkey and all victims of gendered violence).

Some days we all need a bit of Obama magic.

Some days we all need a bit of Obama magic.

We love our SOV students. 🖤

We love our SOV students. 🖤

Faux Visibility:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ → th

Lately I've seen a number of women upset because t

Lately I've seen a number of women upset because they've paid big money to business coaches and not seen any results. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I don't know the specifics of those cases but here's what I do know; far too many people are investing in education around business strategy without doing the equivalent work on block clearing and shifting their mindset. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So they end up knowing how to build a business but without the inner work, they don't end up implementing what they've learned, or they do it half heartedly, or they do all the back end stuff and then ignore the bits that require them to put themselves out there in front of people. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Building a business is an inside and an outside job. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You have to attend to both aspects if you want to be successful. You have to clear out your inner saboteurs and you have to get strategic about how you're going to show up and be seen and heard in the world. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There aren't a lot of places where you can focus on both aspects of building a business. There are even fewer places that understand how visibility blocks work and how they're limiting you and your career. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We offer both at the School of Visibility. Each season you stay with us, you'll spend two months clearing and up-levelling and two months planning and implementing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Which means you'll save yourself enormous amounts of time you'd otherwise spend going back and forth between personal development courses on the one hand and business building courses on the other. (All the while hoping that the work you're doing in one place lines up with the work you're doing in the other space.) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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