HeyJaredStephanie Cross
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When everything starts looking like a you problem (opens the original)
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I’ve noticed that sometimes several things seem to go wrong at once.You’re putting off something you actually want to do.You’re needing far more preparation for things you already know how to do.An opportunity you’d normally be excited about comes along and your first thought is, I genuinely cannot deal with that right now.So you start explaining yourself to yourself.I’ve lost my confidence.I need to stop procrastinating.I need to get more disciplined.Fair enough.But when a woman suddenly has se
The inconvenient problem with changing what works. (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot in my work recently.We talk about things like perfectionism, overpreparing, people pleasing, overthinking, being hyper aware of how we’re coming across as though they’re obviously things somebody would want to get rid of.Which makes sense on paper.In real life, it’s a bit more complicated.Because if you’re a woman who has done pretty well for herself, there’s a decent chance some of those things have also been really useful.You prepare for everything because b
What if you don’t want to turn the hard bit into content? (opens the original)
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I watched a woman online this week explain that the last few years had been really difficult.No make up. Eye patches on. Talking honestly about where she was at and why she wanted to start showing up differently.And I believed her.I also had this slightly uncomfortable thought:God, even this has to become a series.I don’t mean that as a criticism of her.It just made me think about the strange position we’ve got ourselves into online, where even “I can’t keep performing like this” can require you
I went a bit quiet (opens the original)
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I became a mum last year and to be blunt, I just didn’t have much interest in keeping up with the internet as well.I was still working with clients and still thinking about my work.I just wasn’t particularly interested in documenting all of it while I was doing it.And actually, I’ve now been working on my own in my business for over a year.It’s been incredibly freeing.For the first time in a long time, I’ve had the space to properly ask myself what I want my work to look like.Which sounds obviou
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