Oluchi Ikechi-D’Amico
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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What you're telling yourself, it can happen.
Maybe it can't actually.
But because you keep on telling yourself that, you kind of start to develop the muscle of, actually, the more I kind of psych myself up, not to the point that's, you know, irresponsible, but the more I psych myself up, I give an example.
I used to be, I mean, I used to be terrified at public speaking.
Now, you know, we were just talking earlier.
I'm like, you know, pretty good.
Like, you know, I treat meetings as almost like a performance because there is an element of you're always, you have to say something.
I'm a big believer in saying something that's not necessarily insightful, right?
It doesn't have to be the most insightful fact that you share, but it has to be interesting.
Right.
If it's interesting, then it means that you're engaged with that audience in a certain way.
And therefore it's a performance, right?
So it's not an egotistical performance, but that's an example of, I would, I never had that mindset of, you know, stepping onto a stage, into a boardroom, into a meeting room, onto a zoom call or whatever it is of, okay, I'm going to, if I'm, if I'm, if I'm lacking the confidence, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be okay.
But I think that there was a point in my career where that resilience kicked in and I kind of knew that I'm going to have to flex.
And it was an early point in my career.
And I knew that the more senior I got, I would have to really flex this particular skill, you know, and it really meant that I had to just believe in myself.
And I would always tell people who worked for me at the time, you need to have that element of flexibility.
faking it you have to be okay faking it right not in a not in a bad sense not in a don't be you right but fake it internally right because sometimes you i could be tremble you know the beginning when i was like delivering these talks i could be really anxious before the talk or whilst during the talk
But you won't know that, right?
Because I'm going to lean into that resilience, that mindset, that mantra, that chant that I've done before, whatever it is, to allow myself to just human, right?
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