Ep 132: When you’re rejected. 10 years later.

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Hilary Rushford

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

They told me I wasn’t sexy enough.

Well not verbally, but I knew that was why I didn’t get the job.

When I was set to return to the same place years later, an unexpected bump took a hit to my confidence.

At the last minute, I had a revelation about what the real change in me since that day was.

Whether this brings to mind going to a high school reunion, running into an ex, or the person who didn’t hire you:

What’s your real glow up?

Hint: It might be quitting the game they wanted you to play, and creating a new one…

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0:00.0	Ah, you're a legend for being here, doll.
0:06.5	You're welcome.
0:08.0	What was that?
0:09.0	You're welcome with Hillary Rushford.
0:11.5	Say it again.
0:12.5	You're welcome.
0:13.5	In advance.
0:17.5	I recently had a revelation.
0:19.5	You want a revolution, I want a revelation.
0:22.5	Hat to Hamilton.
0:24.0	But when it comes to our beauty standards and judgments,
0:28.0	we sometimes try to beat them at their own game.
0:30.5	I put them in quotes, the mythical them.
0:33.5	We sometimes try to beat them at their own game.
0:36.5	When our true, deeper joy comes,
0:39.5	when we choose to play a whole different game altogether.
0:42.5	When I was in my early 20s,
0:44.5	I was rejected for a hostess job
0:47.5	out of Shishi Restaurant in New York City.
0:50.0	The thing about this hostess job is it came with health insurance,
0:53.5	which is like the holy grail as a dancer in New York City.
0:56.5	I've never heard of another restaurant where that was the case.
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