There was the composed one.
The competent one. The one who walked into rooms and commanded them. She was allowed to be visible. She was the one people came to. She was the one they promoted.
And there was the other one.
The one in a relationship I knew was not right. The one whose private life did not match the image I was projecting. She had to stay hidden, because I was certain that if anyone saw her, they would question my leadership, my credibility, and my right to be in the room.
Somewhere underneath all of it, I believed them.
So I performed wholeness while quietly coming apart. I suffered in silence. I waited for someone to ask whether I was actually all right, and I made very sure that nobody ever would.
Then I lost both of my parents.
And the divided life I had been managing so carefully stopped being manageable.
What I needed was not more motivation. I had more than enough of that. What I needed was an exchange. A limiting belief system for an empowering one. A room built to hold the weight I had been carrying alone.
That exchange is the entire reason these four days exist.
And it is not work I am willing to attempt through a screen.
I am a Leadership Strategist, Coach, and International Speaker. The daughter of Dr. Myles and Ruth Munroe. I have spent my career building spaces for leaders that go where most coaches cannot, and will not, follow.
This is not the space I wish I had found.
It is the space I had to build in order to find it.
Charisa