What if the thing you've spent years trying to fix isn't actually what's wrong?

Maybe you've been underestimated.
Counted out.
Tried to fit somewhere that never really fit you.
Learned to ask permission before being fully yourself.Apologized for the very thing that makes you different.

Or talked yourself out of something because the evidence around you didn't yet say it would work.

This episode of Thriving Entrepreneur begins with Pat Miller, author of Underdog to Empire: Breaking Barriers and Building Businesses with Strength, Strategy and a Sense of Humor.
Pat knows what it means to be underestimated.
After losing her husband and business partner, she rebuilt Blue Diamond from the ground up while navigating an industry where she repeatedly had to prove herself. She shares what it took to keep showing up, grow the company, remain authentic, refuse to compete in a race to the bottom, and stop allowing her own mind to talk her out of what she knew she could build.

Then Steve Kidd takes the conversation somewhere deeply personal.

What if you've been trying to fit into the wrong puzzle?

When did we start asking permission to be ourselves?

What if your greatest gift is the thing you've spent years apologizing for?What if the thing you're avoiding is actually the thing that's trying to save you?

And what happens when you finally take the step...but nothing outside you appears to change?

Maybe more changed than you think.Because sometimes the evidence comes later.
Sometimes the decision comes first.
And sometimes the beginning isn't becoming somebody new.

It's finally questioning whether the person you've spent years trying to correct was ever the problem in the first place.

Featuring Pat Miller and Steve Kidd on Thriving Entrepreneur.

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