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I was teaching a virtual class recently for Women with Moxie, an awesome networking group I’m affiliated with, and one of the participants asked a really great question.

I love this question because it perfectly sums up what many of us experience (and fear) when we start finding success in our businesses.

The question she asked was basically, “How do we deal with people who judge us, or doubt our ability to do our work, when we start getting visible?”

She’s a healer who realized that she had some knowledge that would help other healers in her modality to expand their businesses. So, she put a course together and BOOM people said yes!

The trouble is, the more visible we are and the more success we have, the more naysayers, haters and critics will show up to stop us.

So, what’s a badass visionary to do?

We have two choices:

1. Stay nice and small. Retreat when people doubt us. Let the gremlins take the reins.

OR

2. Say FUCK IT!

There’s a term from way back that refers to this fear called “The Tall Poppy Syndrome.” It’s not a new idea that if we get to big or too important we will be cut down by our communities.

Animals who stray from the heard are more easily picked off by predators. As tribal people, to be away from the pack was extremely difficult and likely a death sentence. So of course, we attach that historical fear to our rise to success in our lives now.

We are afraid of breaking the mold and being cast out.

We think, “Who am I to do this? What do I know? Who do I think I am?”

I ask you this…

Who are you not to?

Who are you to deny the call of inspiration and ignore the path that’s pulling you forward? Who are you to play small when there are BIG ideas flying through your head?

Take this post as official permission granted!

The only thing that will allow you to hang your hat and do the work you’re called to do in this world, is YOU!

Enough of that small potatoes crap.

If you need a community, I got you. There are more of us, ready to welcome you to the land of “Too Much and “Too Visible” than you think.