This is for the woman who has done the work, earned the thing, survived the hard part, built something she is proud of, and still catches herself making it sound smaller when she tells the story.
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Some of us got so good at being humble that we started erasing ourselves from our own stories.
You earned the degree, landed the job, built the business, wrote the paper, raised the family, survived the season.
“Oh, it was nothing.” “I just got lucky.” “Anybody could have done it.” No, ma'am. Everybody did not do it. You did.
Not because you think you're better than anybody. Because you are finally willing to tell the truth about yourself.
I remember being in middle school and doing really well on an assignment. My teacher put my paper on the wall. That should have been the whole story. I worked hard. I did well. Somebody noticed.
But another kid made fun of me, and suddenly I was not thinking about the paper anymore. I was thinking about whether being proud of myself had made me a target.
I carried that lesson much longer than I realized. A lot of us did.
A personal message from Stefanie is coming soon. Until then, read a little of the book below and discover why this conversation matters.
I don't want to give you three cute quotes and call that a preview. I want you to actually hear the book.
“I don't think I'm all that. But I do think I'm something.
Say that second sentence out loud right now, wherever you're reading this. Go ahead. I'll wait. If your voice dropped when you got to it, if you found yourself glancing around to see who was listening, that's exactly who this book is for.”
“So let me say plainly what this book is and is not. This is not permission to become arrogant. This is permission to become accurate. You can respect somebody else's gift without lying about your own. You can be grateful and ambitious in the same breath.”
“If I could walk back into that classroom today, I wouldn't waste one word on Kenny. I'd walk straight past him, kneel down next to that girl in the checkered pants, and point. Look at your paper. Not your pants. Not him. Look at what you did.”
Not into somebody louder. Into somebody more accurate.
It may be literal paper. It may not. The point is the same. What have you earned, built, finished, survived, learned, or become that you keep making smaller?
Put Your Paper Back on the Wall can become a keynote, fireside chat, women's leadership conversation, book discussion, or moderated conversation for organizations and events.
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