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Protect What You Stand For · Mosaic Sparks with Lesley George

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  SPEAKER_00: Someone with less talent than you, less experience than you, and less clarity than you is out there right now doing the thing that you keep saying you're not ready yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: How does that feel?
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  SPEAKER_00: Does that make you feel good?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let that feeling be the last excuse you ever make.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because today we're talking about why the permission you have been waiting for was never coming and what to do instead.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, welcome back, sparklers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Mosaic Sparks with me, Leslie George, and we are back in our favorite space.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you caught episode one, you know that we talked about Okoye, protecting your convictions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you missed it, please go back right now because it would change how you make every decision.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today we're moving from the battlefield to the lab because today's woman is a genius, a builder, and a disruptor, and never once asked for permission to be any of those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Princess Suri of Wakanda, the youngest member of the royal family and the most technologically advanced mind in the entire Marvel universe.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is designing vibramium suits, creating creating technology that defies logic, running Wakanda's entire tech operation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she is doing all of it with joy, confidence, and absolute zero apology.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suri is young.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she operates in a kingdom built on tradition and protocol.
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  SPEAKER_00: And none of that stopped her from being exactly who she was created to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: She didn't wait for a title.
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  SPEAKER_00: She didn't wait for the elders to validate her ideas.
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  SPEAKER_00: She didn't wait until she had enough experience or credentials or even followers.
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  SPEAKER_00: She built, created, innovated, and then she let the results speak louder than the permission slip ever could.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here is what the world has never told brilliant women directly enough that you have been conditioned to wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait for what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait for the right time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait until you are more ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait until someone more experienced tells you that your idea is good enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or wait until you have the right credentials, the platform, the audience, ooh, the money, the perfect moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: But while you're waiting, someone else, often someone with less talent and far more audacity, is out there doing the very thing you were called to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surrey didn't wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to understand that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's not arrogance and it's not recklessness, it was clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surrey understands something that takes most of us years and sometimes decades to fully grasp.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world does not need your perfect version, it needs your present vision.
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  SPEAKER_00: The idea in your head right now, even in its rough draft and in complete form, has the potential to change someone's life, but only if you bring it out of your head and into the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think about the last brilliant idea you had.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was a business concept.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was a book that you were born to write.
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  SPEAKER_00: A program, a service, a creative project.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now think about what stopped you from acting on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm willing to bet that somewhere in that list of reasons is some version of I'm not ready yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if people do not receive it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, what if I fail publicly?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if I am not as good as I think I am?
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  SPEAKER_00: That right there is the permission trap.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it has kept more gifted, qualified, destiny-caring women on the sidelines than any external obstacle ever has or ever will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the true sparklers.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one is coming to give you that permission slip.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no committee that will review your qualifications and send you a certificate and say you are officially ready to lead, to create, to launch, to write, to speak, or to build.
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  SPEAKER_00: That certificate does not exist.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only permission that has ever mattered, the only one that has ever been required is the one you give yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here is what makes this even more urgent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suri's gifts were never just for her own satisfaction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her innovation she built protected the entire nation.
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  SPEAKER_00: T'challah, what a suit she designed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everett Ross was healed by technology she created.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wakanda's safety depended on her willingness to show up completely in her gift without holding back a single ounce of her brilliance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your gifts work exactly the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That book that you haven't written, someone is waiting for that exact story to heal something in them that no one else has been able to touch.
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  SPEAKER_00: My personal story is when I wrote my first book, my audience is women.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was surprised that a man came to me and said, You know something, Leslie?
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know anyone else felt the same way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's all I needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just that one person that I know that I touched with that book.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about the business that you have not launched?
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone needs the service that you can provide and can't find it because you have not shown up yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: The voice you've been keeping quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone in your world is sitting in silence that you were sent to fill.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you hold back your gifts because you're afraid or waiting for permission, or you're not just holding yourself back, you're holding back everyone who was supposed to be served by you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is too high of a price.
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  SPEAKER_00: Suri knew that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want you to do this one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Name that one thing that you've been sitting on and take one action towards it today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not tomorrow, today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can be you need to send that email.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write the first paragraph.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about making that call you've been thinking about for six months?
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  SPEAKER_00: What about buying that domain?
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  SPEAKER_00: Record the first 60 seconds.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, Sori didn't build Wakanda's entire tech empire in a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: She started with one invention.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you start with one step now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do a permission audit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write down every reason that you've told yourself you're not ready.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then, next to each reason, write the name of the someone who is already doing that thing with less experience, less clarity, or even less talent than you have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And cross out every single reason on that list and write down one word over it, which is the word enough, because you already are.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna leave you with a brag formation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am brilliant, I am innovative, I am fully qualified right now, and I do not need anyone's permission to create what I was called to build.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I can start today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as we get ready to end this episode, this is episode two of our six-episode mini-series.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't you dare leave this episode the same woman who pressed play.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are worth more than you've been settling for.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now I hope you know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go act like it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, this is Leslie George with Mosaic Sparks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love to meet you on episode three.