"The thing you've been editing out is probably the thing the right people are waiting for."

I started putting a slide at the beginning of my presentations that says exactly that. I speak too fast. I'm neurodivergent, for me that's ADHD and autism, which means I struggle to look at the camera, I need to read my notes, and once I get going I'm not stopping so try and keep up. If any of that's a problem, watch me on replay, I really won't be offended.

I was braced for it if I'm honest. I'd been in enough rooms to know that people have a very specific idea of what credible looks like, and I wasn't sure I fit it. Too fast, too much, too honest about the bits that don't look polished. I thought people would clock it and decide I wasn't the kind of person they wanted to learn from.

Every single comment was some version of: I speak really fast too. I loved the speed.

And I think about that a lot actually, because I spent a long time managing that stuff down. Slowing myself down, softening the edges, making myself more palatable to a room I wasn't even sure I wanted to be in. And the moment I just said it out loud on a slide, the people I actually wanted to reach went oh, that's her.

The thing you've been leaving out because you think it makes you less credible is probably the thing the right people are waiting to recognise in you.

This week, put one thing back in that you've been editing out. Stop removing it, see what happens.

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