Trust your own seat

Women's confidence · Little Light original

You may walk into a room and feel the old urge to prove, immediately, that you deserve to be there. Take a moment to remember what you have actually done. The work you prepared. The decisions you carried. The times you learned what you needed to learn because other people were depending on you. Let those facts sit beside the nerves. You can speak with care, ask for clarification, and disagree without making a performance of certainty. Your voice does not have to resemble anyone else's to be useful. Give the woman you have worked to become a fair hearing, especially when the first person she needs to convince is you.

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