Transcript
Michele Martin: Hello and welcome back to the Authenticity Revolution. There's a special kind of power that comes when you stop hiding.
Michele Martin: Not the curated kind of visibility, but the real kind. The kind where you show up without the mask, without the filter, without needing to prove anything.
Michele Martin: But let's be honest, that can feel terrifying, especially if you spent a lifetime protecting yourself from judgment. So today's episode is a reminder that visibility isn't about performance.
Michele Martin: It's about presence. So in 2024, I was invited to speak at a summit called Let Yourself Be Seen.
Michele Martin: I barely knew the host. I had never spoken publicly online in that way. And when I said yes, I was a nervous wreck.
Michele Martin: I mean, my nerves were through the roof. I stumbled, i shook, I overthought everything. But here's the thing, I still did it.
Michele Martin: And that experience changed something in me. It showed me once again that I could stretch myself. It showed me that I could survive visibility.
Michele Martin: And it also showed me that fear doesn't mean stop. It means this matters. So since then, I've run my own live workshops and masterclasses, and I was recently invited to do a live workshop in someone's school group, the Legacy Changers Lounge.
Michele Martin: Another stretch, but this time with much more confidence. Growth rewires you. And if you're a mom, I highly recommend you check out the school group led by Tunisha Andrews. And again, it's Legacy Changers Lounge.
Michele Martin: So women are conditioned to a small, play nice, tone it down, avoid attention, be modest, not rock the boat.
Michele Martin: And visibility activates all of those old patterns, right? So if your voice shakes good, it means you're alive.
Michele Martin: Authentic visibility isn't about polish. It's about energy. Performance says, prove yourself. But presence says, be yourself.
Michele Martin: Your audience doesn't need your perfection. What they need is your truth.
Michele Martin: And visibility triggers the nervous system. So it's normal to feel heat, shaking, freeze, overwhelm, self-doubt, and racing thoughts, right? Your body isn't saying don't do it.
Michele Martin: It's saying this is new. When you support your nervous system, slow breaths, grounding, and pausing, visibility becomes safer.
Michele Martin: So you could start small. Share one honest sentence with someone. Use your real voice in a story. If you want to record a video, try, you know, just practicing with the camera off first.
Michele Martin: If you want to post something, you're not sure you really want to post it on social media, just post it without over-editing it. um Speaking up in meetings at work or speaking up in a group program that you're in.
Michele Martin: Maybe you're always quiet and you're just watching, which is perfectly fine because I am one of those a lot of the time. um But maybe you want to, there's something that you feel like you really want to share, so share it.
Michele Martin: And practice being visible in low-stake kind of ways. And visibility builds like a muscle. So here's a question that you can contemplate or journal about.
Michele Martin: Where in your life are you still hiding? And what might shift if you let yourself be seen there? Now until next time, remember,
Michele Martin: You're not broken. You're waking up.
