Courtney Johnson

It is a skill, it is a muscle that you can grow.

And it's a big mistake to think, oh, that person's just born that way.

All of these things are practices.

You don't have to become a completely new person overnight.

You can slowly start to implement these changes.

Slowly, slowly, slowly build the muscle and get more comfortable being visible.

Yeah, see, that's a big resistance I hear from a lot of people.

Well, what if my boss thinks it's weird?

And I ask them, so what?

What if they think it's weird?

What's going to happen?

Is your boss going to say you're weird, you're fired?

Probably not.

Yeah, a lot of times we overblow that.

the results or we overblow the fears, right?

Oh my God, my boss is gonna think it's so weird and then I'm probably gonna lose my job and then I'm gonna be homeless and then I'm gonna starve and then I'm gonna die, right?

Like, is that really gonna happen?

No.

What I recommend is sharing with them your goal.

Hey boss, it's my goal to get this promotion in the next six months.