Hilary McVeigh

I've had a similar experience where I was just walking along the esplanade where I live, the beachfront, and there was a woman just dancing full right in front of the surf club, like really going for it.

And yeah, you see this energy of just that's authenticity and not caring what other people think.

And that's what it's so interesting.

We think that we have to be a certain way, but we're all just drawn to authentic energy and we can't fake that.

It's a felt sense.

It's a felt sense.

And so I remember even starting my business, I thought that I had to like talk a certain way or should I be more serious?

Yeah.

Or, you know, should I be more structured?

All these things.

And yeah, I got to a point of, no, that's not how, you know, the way that I speak is actual for me.

What are we trying to fake and try and be something we're not?

It doesn't attract the people that are meant for your energy.

Yeah, and that's what we can miss out on.

Yeah, I remember there was multiple moments.

Yes, it was not an overnight thing and I was brave and just did the thing.

No, it was incremental.

And it got to the point where I just even remember my family said, you don't need to do this.

And it was interesting because they were the people I didn't want to let down or I had this idea that they would be very disappointed in me.

And especially the same, my grandma, she was always really proud of her granddaughter that was a lawyer.