so you may have gotten so good at wearing your mask (like Jim Carey’s Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask), you forgot who was underneath.

That's not a criticism. That's just what happens when the world rewards you for performing.

You learn fast. You figure out who you need to be in every room. You calibrate…almost without thinking. And you do it so well that people call it confidence, or professionalism, or poise.

What they're really seeing is the mask.

I wore mine for years inside Big Pharma.

↳ Hitting targets. 

↳ Playing the game. 

↳ Competing with other women for a seat at the table because that was the culture. That was what success looked like there. 

On the outside, I looked like someone who belonged.

Inside? I was a fish out of water.

I'd walk into a boardroom and know exactly how to show up. Exactly how much of myself to reveal. Exactly where the line was between being me and making people uncomfortable.

I never crossed it. NEVER

And nobody knew. I fooled everyone, even myself. (Somebody stop me!) 

That's what masking costs… very, very slowly.

➜ In all the meetings where you said the right thing instead of the true thing. 

➜ All the rooms where you made yourself smaller so someone else could feel bigger. 

➜ All the years you spent performing worthiness for an audience that was never going to give you what you were actually looking for. (Spoiler: they weren’t.) 

Here's what I know about carrying that weight.

It's exhausting in a way that doesn't show up on any performance review.

You come home depleted and you don't know why. Because on paper, everything went fine. You did your job. You were professional. You kept it together.

But keeping it together is the thing that's draining you.

Because every ounce of energy spent calibrating who you are for the room is energy taken from actually being who you are.

And the body keeps score. (...Ask your shoulders. They’ve been holding onto something for years.) 

Eventually something cracks. For me it was a breakdown that took everything I thought I was building and shook it until the mask fell off.

I didn't choose to unmask. I was forced to.

And what came through?

My voice. My Purpose. The version of me I'd been performing around for 27 years.

Here's what unmasking looks like when you do the Inner Work first.

✖️It doesn't announce itself. It doesn't require a breakdown.

✔️It looks like one of my clients posting a dancing video on TikTok.

Supriya wanted to dance for years. Her Inner Child kept nudging her. She kept finding reasons not to - family members would see it, it wasn't professional, what would people think.

Then one day she just did it. Put her phone up. Pressed record. 

The response stopped her in her tracks. Not just likes. Real engagement. Comments from people she hadn't heard from in years. And then a close friend pulled her aside at a party and said:

"It wasn't just you dancing. Your energy is more free now."

That's it. That's what unmasking looks like.

Not a grand announcement. Not burning everything down.

A small, brave act of being yourself. And watching the world respond differently because of it.

The reason most people stay masked is simple: Fear of the people closest to them.

The family member who'll have something to say. (You know the one!) 

The colleague who'll raise an eyebrow. 

The people whose approval you've been managing for so long that stopping feels dangerous.

That's where the Four Circles of Personal Power changed everything for me and for so many of the people I work with.

Supriya described it like this. She was living with her father, someone who had caused harm in her life. She couldn't remove him from her world.

But she could move him in her mind.

"Dad is, like, way out in the Far Outer Circle."

That one realization that she got to decide how much power he had over her inner world. Broke something loose.

She stopped calibrating herself for the Far Outer Circle. Or performing for people who did not deserve to be in her Inner Circle.

And she started showing up. Fully, freely, as herself. For the people who did actually deserve to witness ALL of her.

That's the permanent Miracle Magnet Shift. 

You've spent long enough performing for a world that needs the real you. You’re DONE. 

If you're ready to start taking the mask off - one circle at a time -  The Four Circles of Personal Power is where that work begins.

It's my free gift to you. Download it, sit with it, and see what shifts.

👉 Download the Four Circles of Personal Power here

And if you're ready to go deeper. To have a real conversation about what unmasking looks like in your specific life. I invite you to a private 1:1 Miracle Breakthrough Session with me.

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At Your Service,

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