Work Your Brilliance: the uncommon art of being paid to be yourself

What you believe about yourself shows up in your bank account. Not metaphorically -literally

The story underneath the numbers

This is a difficult one to sit with, because it can so easily tip into self-blame. If the money isn't flowing, the conclusion seems to be: there is something wrong with you. But that's precisely backwards. The money relationship is a mirror because everything that shapes how we see ourselves - the messages we absorbed about worth, about whether people like us can have what we want, about whether soul and money can even coexist - all of that shapes how we move in the world of work and exchange.

I spent years believing, at some level I couldn't quite see, that wellbeing and wealth were a trade. That you could have one or the other, but that choosing more of one meant giving up some of the other. I kept choosing wellbeing. I didn't know I could choose both. And that belief - which was never examined, just lived - showed up in every pricing conversation, every salary negotiation, every moment I talked myself out of charging what I was actually worth.

The pivot wasn't a strategy. It was a story change.

What would change if you genuinely believed that the circumstances in which your soul flourishes and the circumstances in which you prosper financially were not in opposition - but pointing in exactly the same direction?

Not as a hope. As a working assumption. Something to test.

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