The Audacity to Want More : Count Yourself In

What happens when you stop making yourself smaller so everyone else can feel bigger? In this episode of The Melanin Motive, we’re talking about the audacity to want more — and everything that can make wanting more feel uncomfortable. More money. More freedom. More ambition. More love. More creativity. More opportunity. More life. But especially for people pleasers, wanting more can come with guilt. We can become so good at considering everyone else that we forget to include ourselves. We talk about playing small, pre-rejecting ourselves, managing other people’s feelings about our potential, taking up space, letting people be disappointed in us and learning that someone else’s discomfort doesn’t automatically mean we’ve done something wrong. Because maybe the goal isn’t to believe you deserve more than everyone else. Maybe it’s simply to believe you deserve a place in the room too. Count yourself in. 🤎 Welcome to The Melanin Motive.