Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

by Tunde Oyeneyin

If you pretend to be someone else, people can’t see you for who you are.

When you show yourself as who you are, your people find you. Authenticity is the intersection of trust and truth.

Authenticity

I believe in living a life on purpose, of purpose, and with purpose. As humans we’re all here to support each other.

People need to be uncomfortable to change.

MLK: Power is the ability to effect change.

I didn’t have to be universally acceptable. I just had to speak up.

the pain of saying nothing was worse than the pain of saying the wrong thing.

The more authentic I was, the more I connected with people.

Maybe your job is to access one. Maybe that’s where you create change. Who knows how far it will lead?

The women I saw with short hair struck me as confident and strong.

I don’t need my hair to be feminine. I don’t need a certain hairstyle to be beautiful. I’m enough.

love yourself. The world will recognize it and send that love right back to you.

We are so quick to put people in boxes, where we think they belong.

I pride myself on being different.

Face your challenges. Write your own narrative. Don’t let your fear hold you hostage.

Fear

I’m proud of myself for letting everyone’s opinion of me go.”

We were saying to the world, “See me as I am.” That’s incredibly freeing.

It’s about women making a choice to let go of what everyone thinks,

finally allowing ourselves to make decisions based on how we see ourselves and how we want to see ourselves.

His time was never so precious that he missed being in the moment with the person in front of him.

When we engage with the world around us, we don’t just elevate our own awareness, we remind other people that they matter.

When people feel like they matter, they pass that on, and so we buoy each other, tied together and keeping each other afloat in stormy seas.

You learn the most in moments of conflict. Your character emerges, and if you take notice, you can find yourself.

the person I always had to show up for was myself.

uncertainty would lead me to a land of infinite and unimaginable possibility.

“soul-care.” A meditation. A walk.

people are in your life for a season and some for a reason.

Life matters. We matter. Each of us in all our imperfection.

We recognize and understand each other, even through our differences.

This is the season to step into your own. This is the season to acknowledge your value, your uniqueness. This is the season to see yourself fully for who you are.

Season

Be your own inspiration, and then spark the light for others.

Light

Find your voice, trust your gut, and SPEAK, because we...

Thank you for being flames that spark the light in my life.