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Women of Impact

Here’s How You Free Yourself Of Self Doubt | Noor Tagouri (Replay)

Women of Impact

Impact Theory

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education

4.8701 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and host of Sold in America, Noor Tagouri, sits down with Lisa in this week’s episode of Women of Impact. They discuss going against the wave, believing in yourself, and why putting in the hijab transformed her life.


[Original air date: 12-12-18].



SHOW NOTES:


How Noor’s childhood affected her sense of identity [02:01]


The first step to reverse your insecurities [04:18]


Why Noor put on the hijab, despite media standards [07:31]


Cultivating a supportive community and avoid the nay-sayers [12:37]


How to find your purpose [16:42] Why you’re never truly alone [18:56]


Transforming shame into confidence after sexual assault [24:17]


How to avoid victimhood and using trauma to empower you [27:11]


The power of believing in yourself [28:49]


The power of believing in something greater than you [31:25]


Noor’s interview in Paris that shook their community [34:05]


How to stay focused on your purpose, even when times are tough [37:10]


Why you need an ego check [41:51]


Noor’s superpower [46:15]



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3:07.4

Well thank you so much thank you for having me I'm so excited to be here I'm so excited to have that was really kind intro well you've done is so incredible thank you and I really want to start from the moment when you were younger and you wanted to dye your hair blonde and have the And I did and you did. Did you wear the blue contact? I did.

3:08.4

For like a year. when you're younger and you want to die your hair blonde and have the contact.

3:05.0

And I did.

3:05.9

And you did.

3:06.7

Did you wear the blue contact?

3:07.6

I did.

3:08.9

For like a year.

3:10.5

For a year.

3:11.4

Okay, so talk to me about identity and how you felt

3:16.0

and then that transition.

3:17.3

So it really started from a very young age.

3:20.0

I grew up in a very conservative white town.

3:22.1

My first day of school, I walked into class

3:25.2

and I sat down next to the only other girl who had dark brown hair. And I asked her if she was Muslim, so I'd never seen another girl with dark brown hair. And I just realized without understanding what my differences were, I just realized I wasn't like the rest of the kids in my class. I didn't look like them. My mom didn't look like them.

4:47.2

And because of the reactions to the differences, I remember just feeling like I wanted to curl up into a ball and just not let anybody ever see who I actually was. And I, in turn, did a disservice to myself and didn't let myself understand who that was. So I struggled with that a lot. And it was definitely a strong matter of the people I was surrounded by and the community I was surrounded by, like my parents were very encouraging and loving parents. Like my mom was a guidance counselor, so she always knew what I was struggling with, but as many times as she could tell me, I was amazing, I was great, I was doing all of these things. I still had a sense of doubt because I just was like, but I'm not like everybody else. And I struggled with that until we moved out of that area. We moved right outside of Washington, DC, and I experienced my own sense of culture shock. There was so much diversity where I was living and I was almost jealous of how confident everybody was in their own skin. And I wanted to know what that would look like for myself. So I started making a promise to myself that I was going to do anything and everything that felt true to me. And the second that I started doing that, like an in-poor, like just opportunity and self-validation and understanding of who I was just became a reality for me and I realized, wow, I should have done this a lot sooner. But how do you actually do that then? So you've seen the diversity, like, okay, maybe this is something I need to adopt really except who I am. What does that first step look like? Because if you've spent your childhood trying to be someone you're not allowed to. And you see it externally like, oh okay other people are owning it. What is that first step though for yourself? And I'm sure you must have been like, you should scared? I think I was naive. I think I was more naive than scared. Everybody else around you is dressed as insecure as you are if not more. Like everybody has insecurities. Everybody has self doubts. And I realized that the people that maybe were picking on me at school or seem so confident were masking a lot of other things. Because their negativity or animosity or the way that they would treat other people was a reflection of what they were dealing with on the inside. But it was like, wait a minute, if everybody else isn't secure in his dealing with stuff and I'm not talking about like everybody else just in high school, I'm talking about every mentor you have, every adult that you look up to, like everybody has something. And once you realize that you're like, wait, if I just own up to mine and acknowledge mine and stage strong and true to myself, no one can take that away from me. And I realized like if I wanted to be who I wanted to be and I was going to chase after the stream of mine, no one except for myself could stop me. And every time somebody said no, they just weren't the right person. They just couldn't see my vision. Like what I knew was so true to me, no one could take away. And once you realize that like everybody has something, and most people are never thinking about you and they're not thinking about your insecurities and once they put you down or once they bully you or once they whatever they're moving on, you're not stuck in their mind. You realize like, wait a minute, why am I letting people's energy take up space in my brain and in my own energy? Why not just channel all of that into focusing on myself so that I can be a better person or a better community member or a better contributor to this world and become stronger in that. And even when you are struggling with insecurity and even when you're struggling with self-doubt, when you carry yourself higher with a higher head and you just stand taller and you are firm in what you have to say like nobody sees through that strength of yours because you put it on like one thing that I've been referring we just talked about our love for Wonder Woman before this but one thing like my husband told me about earlier this year that I've kept trying to do before any like speeches or any meetings or whatever is the superwoman pose and just putting your hands on your hips and standing really tall and just maintaining that for 15 seconds and realizing, oh wait, I am this strong. Like I am this tall, I am this great and walking in with this energy of yourself, loving yourself, and understanding that you deserve everything that you're going after. I love that so much. As you just did the pose, I were saying like, Oh, she'd had news anchors, they were saying,

8:45.3

oh, you should never get a job.

8:46.5

Oh yeah.

8:47.3

And that.

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