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You can tell so much about a leader by the way the You can tell so much about a leader by the way they speak to their team. 💯 Facts.

Toxic and insecure leaders speak down:
👎🏻 They talk as if their team is always behind.
👎🏻 They assume incompetence.
👎🏻 Their words shrink confidence instead of building it.

👉 Example: “Why isn’t this done yet? You should already know how to do this.”

The message isn’t about progress, it’s about control. It treats the team as if they’re incapable or always falling short.

Healthy leaders do the opposite. They speak as equals and often even above the current skill set.
👍🏻 They assume their team can rise to the challenge.
👍🏻 They give feedback that stretches instead of belittles.
👍🏻 Their words create growth, not fear.

👉 Example: “I know this is new for you, but I trust you’ll figure it out and I’m here if you get stuck.”

The message honors effort, assumes capability, and raises the bar without diminishing anyone. Toxic leaders double down on insecurity. Healthy leaders lift their team by speaking as equals. One voice shrinks. The other expands.
Happy Halloween, beautiful souls! May your day be Happy Halloween, beautiful souls! May your day be filled with magic, mischief, and a little mystery. Here’s to every witch, dreamer, and creator who’s brave enough to keep conjuring something out of nothing.

Remember that creativity is alchemy! Every idea you bring to life, every risk you take, every version of you that’s brave enough to evolve is a spell in motion. ✨ 🔮 🎉 

May your cauldrons stay full, your boundaries stay firm,
and your inbox stay ghost-free. 😉
Holy cow, it’s Halloween again. 😇🤭 Another year of Holy cow, it’s Halloween again. 😇🤭 Another year of creating, unlearning, rebuilding, and remembering who we are underneath the costume.

We spend so much of our lives trying to be the thing, the expert, the brand, the authority, that sometimes we forget we were already the magic.

So here’s to showing up in all your layers. To laughing at the mess.To remembering that the work was never about being flawless, it’s about being real. 

#throwbackthursday to one of the few times I’ve ever dressed up for Halloween as an adult. Ten years ago! I thought this was rather clever, haha. I really need to dress up for Halloween more, honestly.
The ghost that’s been following you wasn’t failure The ghost that’s been following you wasn’t failure. It was you, the version that knew she was capable of more, still waiting to be chosen.

Every time you silenced an idea to play it safe, every time you shrank your offer to fit someone else’s comfort, she lingered.

Not to scare you but to remind you she’s still there.

You can’t exorcise potential, you can only become it.

At some point, the haunting ends when you stop running from your own brilliance and start living like the woman you once dreamed of being.

The only thing truly haunting about potential is what happens if you never let it live.
🧪 Introducing: Elixir of External Validation™ 👻 D 🧪 Introducing: Elixir of External Validation™ 👻

Distilled in the fog of your very own self-doubt and bottled beneath a waning moon. 

The elixir everyone’s been drinking for centuries and wondering why they still feel empty.

Brewed from the whispers of other people’s opinions you’ve stayed up at night imagining, Elixir of External Validation™ is specially formulated to keep you performing for approval and terrified of your own creative power.

💀 Ingredients:
- The need to impress your father, brother, best friend, or boss.
- One drop of “What will they think?”
- A heavy pour of “Who am I to…?”
- And just a dash of social media comparison for that extra sting.

✨ Effects may include:
- Temporary numbness from false praise.
- Strengthens your addiction to applause. 
- Paralysis at the thought of being misunderstood.
- Chronic creative constipation.
- A haunting fear of your own voice.

🕯️ Warning:
Highly addictive. May cause long-term disconnection from your purpose and temporary highs mistaken for fulfillment. Side effects include delayed success, misaligned audiences, and the haunting realization that no amount of applause will ever make you feel whole. 

Once consumed, the only antidote: Silence. Solitude. And the sacred act of remembering who you were before the world told you how to be seen.
She asked the glass for guidance. It asked the sam She asked the glass for guidance. It asked the same question back.

Long before dashboards, spreadsheets and data, there were mirrors. Bowls of water. Crystals that shimmered with possibility.

They called it scrying, the art of seeing what couldn’t yet be seen. Those who mastered it didn’t chase the future... they learned to listen.

Now, we do the same thing under fluorescent lights. We check insights and analytics. We forecast launches, conversions, and engagement rates trying to catch a glimpse of tomorrow.

But just like the scryers of old, most of us forget the most important rule: The glass doesn’t show what’s missing. It reflects what you bring to it.

If your vision is cloudy, it’s not the data. It’s what you’re avoiding.

The entrepreneurs who lose their way aren’t lacking data —
they’re afraid of their own reflection.

Because at some point, you realize the glass was never magic. You were. How you interpret the data is your magic. Your perception is your competitive advantage.

You’ve been the oracle all along. The glass was just waiting for you to look.
A Cautionary Tale for the “Good Enough” Soul They A Cautionary Tale for the “Good Enough” Soul

They say ghosts haunt the places where they left something undone.
If that’s true, there are millions of us walking around half alive. 

Not because we died too soon, but because we waited too long.
We waited for permission. For proof. 

For someone to tell us it was safe to want more, to be seen, to create the thing that’s been whispering through us for years.

And in all that waiting, time kept moving. The world spun forward.
The spark dulled under deadlines and “maybe laters.”

We called it being responsible, but really it was fear, dressed up in logic. 

The real horror isn’t failure or what everyone is going to say. It’s never letting yourself be fully alive in your own lifetime.

You won't build anything meaningful waiting for someone else's approval. You'll never realize your potential if you keep asking for permission or if it’s the right time.

The truth? It’s never the right time. And it’s always the right time.

So this Halloween, bury the part of you that’s been haunting the edges of your own potential. Lay “good enough” to rest.

And let the REAL you, the unfiltered, unapologetic, wildly creative you — rise.
💬 “I’ll start when…” There’s always a reason not t 💬 “I’ll start when…” There’s always a reason not to start.

“I don’t have enough experience.”
“I don’t have a plan.”
“I don’t have testimonials, equipment, followers, confidence…”

Sound familiar? We dress resistance up as preparation. We tell ourselves we’re waiting for clarity, but really we’re just waiting to feel safe.

Here’s the truth no one wants to hear: Clarity comes from motion. Confidence comes from doing. Experience comes from failing forward — not sitting still.

Every business, brand, and body of work you admire? They started with something messy, unpolished, and a little uncertain.

Start anyway.
Say the awkward thing.
Post the half-perfect idea.
Launch the version that feels almost ready.

Because “ready” isn’t a finish line — it’s a mirage that moves every time you get close. The magic doesn’t happen when everything’s perfect. It happens when you decide to start anyway.

What's one small thing you can do consistently to start showing up for what you're creating?

#TakeTheLeap #EmbraceImperfection #StartNow #FearlessAction #MessyBeginnings #CourageOverComfort #ProgressNotPerfection #CreateYourPath
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