Welcome to Impact the World, the show for and about creatives, change makers and entrepreneurs.

This is an insight episode, where I share a few quick tips to look at why you are needed and why you are enough.

So 15 years ago when I began this work, it was very easy for me to think of people who

were already doing the kind of thing I was doing in my field and see that they were more

progress, they'd been doing it longer, they were really good at it.

So I could often think to myself, well, why am I needed?

And what I've learned and come to understand over the years is

all of us are needed because we are all completely unique. We all have a very unique way

of seeing things, delivering things, and being an emblem for somebody who is going to need

you. So one trap that I see people fall into a lot when they forget that they

are enough and that they are needed exactly as they are, is they try and emulate or become someone

else that they admire. So the world doesn't need another Oprah Winfrey or another Brendan Bichard

or another Elvis Presley because those guys are either already out

there doing their thing or they have been out there doing their thing and their imprint

is now left on our collective. What the world needs is how you are going to imprint our collective.

Because you are a composite of all of the experiences that you have had so far. And so that's what you

need to share with the world. And also, we tend to have a human disease of not being enough.

So you being willing to work with that inside your own mind and still step out there and

recognize, actually, I may not be quite as good as I want to

be in this area or this area, but I'm just going to offer this that I can because you never

know what it's going to do for somebody else, how it's going to empower them, or just the act

of you showing up in the world gives someone else permission to be brave enough to show up themselves.

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