Week 12: I Am Invisible
Rediscover Yourself: Weeks 1-13
It's time for a reinvention! You’ll bust one limiting belief every week and re-write your empowering narrative. I’ll provide reflection prompts and fun, doable action steps to keep you moving forward. Use 2025 to reclaim the starring role in your own life story. You’ll be more confident, more curious, and more ready than ever to embrace what’s next.
It’s like Glinda said, “You’ve had the power all along, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.”
Desperate for change? Yearning for adventure? You have everything you need to live the life of your dreams within you. You just need a little nudge, that’s all!
I know the feeling, heroine! You passed the age of forty and (poof!) disappeared. We may indeed have resented only being noticed because we were a pretty young thing, but at least we could get people's attention. And I'm not just talking about the men here. Women overvalue pretty young things, too. Widespread societal beauty and age biases can unconsciously influence women’s perceptions and behaviors.1 In other words, we can be just as blind to the wise women in our presence as the men are (check yourself next time you're in a professional environment: who do you give the most credence to?)
Below is the cure for invisibility - and a juicy workbook to support your Pocket Quest™.
Let me tell you a story about my experience with invisibility while doing business in China. I vividly remember the first phone call with the consultant who would help me find my Chinese suppliers. By that point, the company had moved well beyond selling the goods of US distributors. It was time to manufacture my own products and designs, but first, I had to find a factory.
"Can your husband come?" He asked.
"Sure," I answered. "But why? He's not involved in my business."
"They'll take you more seriously if you have a man with you."
And he was right.