Your face in a headshot without your partner, your kids, your dog, your tools of the trade, and/or your cat(s). They’ll look like having your face on your website. Often, the first steps into vulnerability as a business owner will be fairly mundane. You don’t have to go from being a master of mystique to spilling your sexiest secrets in one fell swoop.

Vulnerability doesn’t have to happen all at once. A fucking fun game.)įirst, a word to calm the parts of you that are freaking out when I even mention the word ‘vulnerability,’ let alone begin to talk about it. Let’s dive into what keeps you from being vulnerable, where you’re most likely to waste your vulnerability juice, and what it looks like to turn one of the scariest acts most females can imagine - asking for help - into a fun game. That’s not the case, and I want to address this as an introduction to the sort of brave that affects your voice (or lack thereof) the most: vulnerability. They imagine a world in which every secret they’ve ever had is laid bare and then featured on a reality show that’s beamed into every home on the planet - AND it’s shot in HD so that every pore on their face has its own character name and story line. When I talk with my coaching peeps 1-on-1 about being a little more vulnerable in business, they usually freak out. This is what your voice has to do with your work and worth. Past episodes include: your work is not your worth.

This is part 5 in the Voice podcast series.

Another word for brave