Episode 25 - The Ugly Baby problem

Thursday Think Bites · May 28, 2026 · 3m · transcript

Episode 25 - The Ugly Baby problem

A colleague I hadn’t spoken to in 10 years got on a call with me and said:

“Have you seen yourself in those videos?”

No hello. No warm-up.

Then came the feedback:

Bad lighting. Bad editing. Not professional enough.

I defended it immediately.

“Raw is the point.”

But here’s the uncomfortable part.

She wasn’t the first person to say it.

My mom said it.

My husband said it.

I ignored both.

But hearing the same feedback from someone with no agenda finally made it land.

And that’s when I realized:

Sometimes we don’t reject feedback.

We reject the source.

Leaders do…