Ep. 55 | Political Incorrectness: Superpower or Social Suicide?
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Political incorrectness is not the problem. Your fear of it is the problem. And if that makes you uncomfortable, then good. This episode is just for you. Hey legend. Welcome back to controversial as fuck the podcast today by discussing political incorrectness. Is it a superpower or social suicide? I'm pumped for this conversation.
This is right up there as one of my all time. Favorite things to discuss anything to do with using our voice. And I've voiced by the way. It doesn't just mean the words that we speak. When I think of voice, I also think of our presence, the silence, the gaps in between the things that we say. It's like everything about us that comes before when we speak.
And also what follows. It's all about the presence that we embodied. But today I want to talk specifically about our voice in the realm of political incorrectness. We're living in a time where silence masquerades is politeness. You think about it thinking [00:01:00] social. Settings. It could be online in the social media realm when this silence often it's seen as politeness.
So if there's something that's very uncomfortable, that's being discussed online. It's like, if we just don't say anything, we're being polite, even if we completely disagree, just don't say a word we're being polite. Whereas to me, I actually think that we're being sold a lie. That to be kind, you've got to conform. To be polite.
You've got to silence yourself and I just completely disagree with this. Full-on. This is not my message at all. To me, political correctness, isn't about protection. It may have come off that way in the beginning when everything became about. Oh, just be politically. Correct. Just tone things. Down. Aye. I understand a little. A bit why. Y it. It became a thing in the. Beginning. You know when it's not. About deliberately trying to hurt. Hurt people deliberately. Really trying to cause. Harm to somebody. I get that side. [00:02:00] Of it.
I agree. Fully. But I now don't. Don't think that. It's about protection. I actually think it's about control. I say this with a lot of the topics that we discussed on this podcast. It's about control. It's swung too far. Pendulum has swung too far with every everything we discuss. But at what cost is this now to me, it's costing conversations.
It's costing progress. And it's also costing courage because it takes courage to move us forward in whatever it is. It takes courage to actually stand out and to speak your truth and to go against the grain. It takes a lot of courage. And I think that is now become the cost, courage conversations and progress.
That is the cost of this political correct. Movement that I don't like. Because here's the thing. Every time that we are swallowing our truth, we're actually betraying a version of us. Who knows better. We're silencing that part of ourselves who knows better, who can do better biting our tongue is [00:03:00] not actually keeping the peace. It's not, it's a roading, our self-trust.
And I do want to talk about this for a second, because I'm huge on self-trust I'm huge on discussing self-trust and cultivating self-trust. So many people are chasing confidence these days. They're like, oh, I just want to feel confident. I just want to be more confident, not realizing that is self-trust.
If you don't trust yourself, you are not going to be confident. If you don't work on actively building self-trust you are not building confidence. And what happens with these politically correct movement is every time we silence ourselves to try to keep the peace we are eroding our self-trust. Therefore we are eroding our confidence. You might just think and most people just think, oh, if I just be quiet, It's not costing me anything.
I'm actually just being polite. I'm just being kind. I'm just being XYZ. Not realizing that each time you do that, it is chipping away at yourself. Trust it's chipping away at your [00:04:00] confidence, which means it chips away at who you are. Like fully it chips away at your visibility. It chips away at the presence that you hold.
When you walk into a room, when you speak to people in a public setting. It chips away at your confidence to speak up in a meeting at work or to present to a group of people. Whatever it might be, it chips away at that. It doesn't just affect how you show up online in a social, like social. Media, my God works.
It doesn't just affect you and your presence online in a social media setting. It also affects how you walk and how you talk and how you move through the world. Like these things that intricately linked. I look at these. These topics very differently to most. And it's because I saw the effect that it had on me and my life. I silenced myself so often to keep the peace. Not realizing that was linked to why I had a shitty amount of self-trust and a shitty amount of confidence. [00:05:00] They're linked. They link up to our everyday lives.
So when we actually stop silencing ourselves and we stop waiting for permission to speak. You were not just entering a room. We actually are creating the room. I've been doing a lot of looking into who am I speaking to when it comes to the services that I'm about to launch. There'll be more on that soon, but who am I speaking to?
Who am I wanting to work with? Who am I wanting to attract? And I started to think about the archetype of this individual. And I was like, this is the type of person. Who doesn't fit into society's mold that they're too big for that they're too big for what society's created for them. They're too bold.
They. They're told they're too much all the things. And I was like, instead of them feeling like they have to fit into a box, fit into a specific room, ask for a seat at somebody's table. Now I'm going to create that for them. I'm going to create the room for them. They're too big for this world.
I'll create the [00:06:00] world for them.
And I love that because I think often we are told we're too much, if we're politically incorrect and I think no. We're just the right amount. If speaking your truth makes you the villain. I want to say this to you, wear it with pride, where that labor was pride because we live in a world that's obsessed with approval. And your disruption is an active rebellion. But it's also a service to the world.
It's not about being a rebel without a cause you are absolute service to this world when you can speak your truth. Unapologetically from a place of integrity. Again, it's not about being a rebel without a cause it's about coming from a place of integrity, but saying, you know what? I've got questions. You know what I see your point of view, but I disagree. You know what yep.
That's what this movement says. I think there's something else. There there's something else to it. That's not being said, and I'm not going to silence myself to be socially acceptable. And I'm not going to silence myself to be a part of your core group. I don't [00:07:00] give a damn I'm going to create this space for myself.
And that is what you do every time that you stand strongly in your word and you speak your truth, even if it has. It causes waves. Even if there's map massive ripple effects that come after the words that you speak. So this episode is not for the faint-hearted it's for the disruptors. It's for those who know that being politically incorrect is not a liability.
It's your greatest superpower. And let's dive in. All right. We'll start with my issues with the politically correct. Group or movement, whatever you want to call up. These are my problems with it. Yeah, sure. It may have started to create respect. I mentioned that before. I'm not going to elaborate right now. It's actually evolved to a muzzle though. Because every time we swallow our truth, we are teaching the system, whatever system that might be, that it's lies of working.
Where's the progress in this and make this applicable to whatever system industry you're in.
It could be the education system. It could be the [00:08:00] medical system. It could be.
The financial system, it could be whatever career you're in, whatever business you hold, maybe it's in your social setting, whatever it is, you are teaching that system, that group that it's wiser working on. You. That's not progress. That is utter surrender.
A lot of people view politically correct individuals as protectors or they're the ones that are shielding. The minorities. They're the ones that are shooting these groups that need protecting. It's not a shield. It's actually become a leash because it keeps you polite enough to stay controlled, but you're never bold enough to actually change the rules. Sure you may be polite. You might be the one that's seen as the nice person, the good girl. The good girl archetype. But you're not the type who's going to be bold enough to actually change the rules, to actually disrupt the industry that you're in to actually create change.
That is very much needed. You're too polite for that. You're too controllable [00:09:00] and I'm not speaking to you. Cause I know listeners of this podcast and not easily controlled. I'm talking about the archetype of the good girl, the archetype of the one who's just kind to everybody. Who's just the nice one. You're easily controlled. Another issue I have with being too politically correct?
Is there is a death of nuance. I talk a lot about nuance in these podcasts. There's so many different ways of looking at things there's always nuance. It's not everything is just black and white. But we've actually lost the ability to be able to say I agree with this, but I actually also have questions about that. Or, yeah, I see your point of view.
I just see it differently.
Being politically correct. And the movement of being politically correct is actually turned. What is gray areas in conversations into absolutes? Like you're not allowed to question that you're not allowed to discuss that it's off limits and I disagree. Nothing is off limits.
A lot of people are very scared of disagreements are very scared of anything that's [00:10:00] slightly controversial or all this. There's tension there, but that's where nuance lives. It lives in the tension of the disagreements. And I think that if you can hold that tension. You're you have a superpower. People are too scared to hold the tension.
Therefore they're too scared to actually grow. That's where growth ease it's in being able to hold the tension of disagreements, being able to hold the tension of seeing the world in a different way. I don't expect you as a listener to agree with everything that I say on this podcast. I welcome you to challenge me.
I welcome you to question me to question my worldview, to question the way that I see things. I don't think that I hold the absolute truth on everything. I will speak confidently and boldly on how I do see the world. But I also am open to the fact that I can change my mind when presented with new information. I think that's growth.
I think that takes a level of maturity and it takes a level of self-awareness. To be able to say I could be wrong. Questioned [00:11:00] me and let's hold the tension of the disagreement. Let's hold the tension of seeing the world differently because that's where growth is.
I think that as people we have lost the ability to hold curiosity. There's the politically correct movement has actually become the death of curiosity. And I think that's where ignorance. His bread. Like a wildfire.
Because what happens is when you hold curiosity, when you come from a place of curiosity and having genuine questions, political correctness, stifles that it actually shames the questions that you hold it shames. The fact that you want to challenge whatever narrative it is. That is the politically correct narrative to hold. I'll give you an example, questioning the vaccine mandates, like for instance, during COVID or you know, what any vaccines. Questioning that doesn't make you anti-science. It actually makes you pro accountability. Because when we [00:12:00] stop asking questions, we actually stop thinking critically.
If someone questions vaccines like myself, I question all of them.
I have a real issue with a lot of them these days. And. That's not the politically correct thing to do to raise those questions publicly. I've been doing that for quite a while now for years. And it's not politically correct. It's not a comfortable thing to do. In social settings, it makes people uncomfortable.
Very uncomfortable, but it doesn't make you anti-science if you're that individual who questions them again, it's about being accountable. The political correct movement tries to stifle, curiosity and tries to make you think that you have to shut your mouth. Otherwise you are anti XYZ ed. I don't agree with it.
Another thing is I do agree with empathy.
I think empathy is important and I think true empathy actually listens.
But what has actually [00:13:00] happened with this politically correct movement is people's empathy is now being weaponized and that is turned into, instead of just listening, it's demanding silence to protect people's feelings. That's what the politically correct movement is all about protecting people's feelings.
Yes. I understand. As I said in the beginning, That polit being politically correct in the beginning of this whole movement was about protecting minorities and not causing deliberate harm. That is one way of looking at it. I understand. It's not about causing deliberate harm to people, but it's now turned into silence yourself.
Otherwise you're not an empathetic person. Shut down your questions, or you're not empathetic. Shut down. Any curiosity you have, or you're not empathetic. And it's all about protecting people's feelings. It all comes down to being bubble wrapped.
And it actually avoids the root issues. It seems like everybody, these days is so focused on avoiding offense at all costs. Like the biggest crime that you can actually be a part of these days is offending somebody that seems to be the worst crime that you can [00:14:00] possibly. Be a part of, and it's ridiculous because what actually happens is when we are avoiding offense at all costs, we allow things like corruption to actually thrive. And, uh, the guise of kindness. Everybody just applauds kindness. Well, not realizing that if we silence ourselves and we don't raise questions and we don't have curiosity. Things thrive that shouldn't be thriving.
If your focus is on being polite at all costs. I'll tell you what that cost is. It's your integrity. Politeness always has a price. And it is usually your integrity because true integrity. Isn't about avoiding conflict. It's about navigating it with courage.
I actually say being politically incorrect. As a superpower, like I really genuinely do. I think when you are someone who is politically incorrect, you stand out in a sea of sameness. You stand out and you are a disruptor by being politically incorrect. And no, I don't think you have to be against the [00:15:00] grain on every topic, in every issue out there.
There's that folk confidence of I'm just a big, loud mouth. Look at me. I can question everything. That's not what this is about at all. It's not about being reckless. It's about having the courage to actually prioritize truth over comfort. But there is a difference between being reckless, being allowed mouth like being polarizing for the sake of being polarizing.
You just want to come off as the most edgiest person online. That is a difference between that and actually having integrity coming from a place of curiosity, but prioritizing your truth over comfort. You are not going to silence yourself and silence what you believe is true, just to please, just to be seen as the good girl, just to be seen as the good boy. That's not what this is about.
And I want to say something because most people are genuinely scared of being attacked online. There is they're scared of someone critiquing them, someone hating on them. Trolls is often used as a term that gets thrown around a lot. I want to say your critics aren't actually attacking you. Is there something [00:16:00] that, that I reframed for myself last year, they're not attacking me.
If someone critique something that I'm saying they're not attacking me. What is often the case, especially if they are more on the spectrum of a hater. They're actually scared of what your boldness reveals about their own cowardice. Your boldness and your ability to stand strongly and to speak your truth in the face of rejection criticism, misunderstandings, trolls, hatred, all of the above. The fact that you still stand strongly and will still speak regardless, highlights the cowardice within them that they're not willing to accept. It's not about you.
And, three things I have on about, you know, a lot of my episodes is self-responsibility self-trust.
And discipline another one I want to add to that is integrity.I'm big on having integrity. What can actually happen is whenever you're too scared to speak the truth, maybe it's in your social setting. [00:17:00] Maybe it's with your friends, your family. Okay. It can be literally that micro level. It doesn't have to be on social media whenever you are too scared to speak up too scared to say something that's on your mind, you're actually disrespecting yourself.
But also the people that you're speaking to, and again, this erodes at your self-trust, but it erodes it yourself respect, which affects your integrity. It affects the way that you view yourself, but also the way other people view you, I'll give you an example. I love individuals who will speak up about whatever it might be and speak so strong, strongly on it.
Even if I don't agree with their stance, I will have the highest levels of respect for that individual. But the fact that they had the sheer audacity to speak so publicly on something that they knew would cause backlash, but they still spoke up anyway. Even with friends. If they, I could. Absolutely disagree with something that they say, but if they say it was such a [00:18:00] Udacity and such boldness and conviction, and it comes from a place of integrity. My God, I have the highest respect for them.
People have even said it to me with this podcast. They're like, you know what I don't agree with what you said. But the fact that you said it so publicly and in such a strong way, highest levels of respect. Think of someone in your life or think of someone that you look up to online, who, again, you might not agree with everything that they say, but it's their balls. Even if they're a woman. We'll say audacity, it's their sheer audacity. They are choosing to not disrespect themselves.
They are choosing. Instead of having comfort, they're speaking their truth, knowing that it might cost them being liked. It might cost them, from everybody loving on them, but it's not at the cost of their self-respect. It's never at the cost of their self-respect.
Another thing the politically correct movement is doing, is it stifling, creativity, innovation, and also rebellion. And God, I love rebellion. [00:19:00] The greatest ideas don't come from. Echo chambers. They don't. They come from people who are bold enough to actually challenge the narrative.
I see being politically incorrect as the birthplace of genius, because it's daring to actually ask what, if everything they told us was wrong. Like again, coming back to the COVID vaccines or the mandates, the, whatever the narrative is challenging that wasn't anti-science it was pro critical thinking. Calling up the woke charade is not hate.
It's not hateful. It's demanding authenticity. It's saying, you know what, something about, whatever it is is fishy to me. Something about is not sitting right with me. If you question that you're not hateful, especially when it comes from a place of integrity. You're actually saying, no, you don't want there's something here.
That's not right. And I'm going to raise questions about it. It's coming from a place of curiosity. It's coming from a place of integrity and it's saying I'm going to choose myself, respect over comfort. I'm going to choose myself, respect myself trust [00:20:00] and not stifling my voice over being liked by the masses. Highest respect for you.
If you're one of those individuals.
Also a lot of people are trying to get away from offending. I don't see a fence as the end of a conversation. I actually think it's the beginning of a deeper one.
Because when our words actually hit a nerve in somebody's it's.
Sure it might be making them uncomfortable. We might be making the room uncomfortable. It might make you uncomfortable. But if you're hitting a nerve, when you're speaking. That's a nerve that's actually worth exploring. That's where growth happens. Curiosity is a beautiful thing to hold in conversations. It's not about trying to prove that we're right. It's about saying I've got questions. One of the questions that I love to ask people is what led you to that point of view?
Help me understand. I want to understand, even in relationships, something that like in my past relationships, something that I started to really cultivate was. Help me understand your point of view. I'm not seeing it right now, [00:21:00] but I genuinely want to, I want to understand what you're trying to say.
I want to understand where you're coming from. And I would say the words and it was such an instant diffuser of walls. Like it would crumble any walls, any tension. If my ex partner would say something and I just did not agree, or I just could not understand how we came to that conclusion. I would literally say help me understand.
And as soon as I would say that the war would come down and we'd, there was room for growth. There was room for curiosity, there was room for being able to understand each other's point of view. The end goal was not to agree with each other. It was to understand each other. When you come from that place. And you still raise your questions and you can still disagree, but it comes from a place of absolute love and integrity.
And self-respect. You can have some of the most beautiful conversations.
Another issue that I have with the politically correct movement is I actually think it's quite dangerous in the fact that silence is not [00:22:00] protecting the silence is becoming laws. Think of laws that are getting passed these days and they're getting passed because everybody's silent. Nobody wants to disagree.
Nobody wants to say what they really think. This podcast is a perfect place. A perfect, like I see it as almost like you picked your animals. In the safari, I'm going off track here. You picked your picture animals in a safari and they all come to a common watering hole. That's what I pictured this podcast being it's like the watering hole for all of the disruptors.
So the watering hole for all of the renegades, for all of the trailblazers, for all the rebels out there in society, the outliers, the outcasts, the people who think differently. This is the watering hole for everybody to come and to drink from and to mingle and to understand each other and to have conversations and to question each other and question what's going on out there.
This is the watering hole. We are the people who will question. We are the people who will disrupt. We're not going to just [00:23:00] allow silence to become laws because that is what is happening. And God damn it scary.
Because when we are continually silent in the face of lies, we are actually complicit. We are completely complacent. And again, This is not about speaking up about everything out there, make it applicable to you, to your industry, to your business,
Do your social media platforms make it applicable to you?
I've said this before in other episodes. I don't think we have to speak on every issue out there publicly. I don't. If you run a business that is a soap making business, it would be so weird for you then to then go and speak on abortion on your soap. Instagram page. Make it applicable to you. It could be in your relationships, in your friendship circles, or maybe you have a podcast where you can talk about whatever you want.
Like I created one deliberately for that reason. Whatever it is, make it applicable to you. But when we are silent, In the face of lies, we are complicit.
I know, tell you one [00:24:00] thing.
The fear of backlash fades, but what actually stays with you is the regret.
Of staying silent that can actually lingo with you for a very long time. There are things in the past that I stayed silent about that I wish I didn't. That regret lingers. The fear of backlash has gone, but the regret lingers.
So how do we actually harness and embrace our politically incorrect, super power as I'm going to call it? One thing is about always speaking from integrity. I've alluded to that before. Don't speak from anger, speak from truth. It's not about our ego. If you're feeling really triggered and really angered and very activated by something, don't feel like you have to speak right there.
And then. Don't come from a place of anger. Although that CA. At nuance that can be good at times. Like anger can spark absolute revolutions. But I'm saying in general conversations come from a place of integrity. Come from a place of humility, come from a place of truth.
Also.
The most powerful words, aren't always the [00:25:00] loudest. Speaking from your truth. Isn't about being the loudest in the room. I disagree with that completely. The narrative of, if you're not loud, then you're not speaking. I think you can be the quietest person in the room and hold the most presence. Hold the most power. I think of it this way. Side note. I think of guys at gyms,
if I see a guy who's jacked up, like over the top ridiculous muscles, I'm talking about the types that look like. They've got a million steroids going through them. They're the types of have their shoulders up to their ears. When they walk, they're hunched up like this, and they like peacocking around the gym. That's a very loud way.
Like not volume wise, but loud in what they're doing and the way that they're peacocking and they're wanting attention. I see that as the highest form of insecurity, I do not find that individual attractive at all. It that repels me. I find that man unattractive. And the reason why is his insecurities speaking way louder. [00:26:00] Then what he actually probably realizes it's a, peacocky, it's a show off he thing. I am way more attracted to a guy.
He doesn't have to be loud. He doesn't have to have the highest volume be the most outspoken. It's none of that. A man who can stand. I notice there's a random talking about gyms, cause I've bloody live in the gym. A man who can just walk like a normal walk. He doesn't have to be the most jacked guy out there, but he has this calm, quiet confidence in the way that he moves his heads up.
He can make eye contact with people. He can smile at random people. He's not, he hasn't got this like D big defensive shield. He's just got this calm, quiet confidence. It's the same with our voices. You don't have to be the loudest person in the room to have the most impact. You could be the most introverted individual out there and still have more impact than someone who's shouting.
Just like that jacked guy in the doom, who's like parading with his bloody shoulders up to his ears.
And he's just like, yeah, I just [00:27:00] find it really unattractive. Just saying. It's the same. If you think you have to be the loudest in the room and it doesn't come natural to you, you're peacocking. It's different. If you are naturally allowed individual, I'm not saying silence yourself. But the most powerful words are not always the loudest.
They're very deliberate. They're sharp. And they're unshaken.
Another thing, if you are wanting to be more politically incorrect, or if you already are, you will know this intimately. Embrace loneliness embrace it. I don't mean use that as an excuse to be a recluse. Okay. Still have a social network still go out with people. Don't use that as an excuse because a lot of people are like, oh, it's too uncomfortable to have conversations with people because I'm just too politically incorrect.
You're using that as an excuse though. If you're then not interacting with other humans in everyday life, that's not what I'm talking about. Don't go and become a recluse in the Bush, living on your own in a hot. Cause that's actually fee. That's not actually embracing, being politically incorrect as your superpower, [00:28:00] because if you can now not mingle with everyday human beings, it's not your superpower anymore.
It's your Achilles heel being politically incorrect often means standing alone though. It does. It means standing alone in how movements begin.
And if you feel alone at times, because you are maybe outspoken about certain things or you do go against the grain a lot, you do question a lot of what is.
Swallowed these days by maybe the general public. I want you to think of it this way. Being lonely at times is not punishment. It's actually a filter for finding those bold enough to stand with you.
You are going to offend. If you go against the grain, if you question common narratives, if you have curiosity about. About what is commonly swallowed by most individuals? You are going to offend individuals. It is not a mistake though.
Again, when it's rooted in integrity, it's done strategically. If you offend with truth, you're not pushing [00:29:00] people away.
You're actually filtering the ones who don't align with your mission. Like this podcast. I'm not deliberately trying to hurt individuals, but I am deliberately repelling, deliberately. I will speak on issues knowing that it is going to repel. And that is more than okay. I'm not trying to be palatable for everybody out there.
This podcast is not at the place is not the place for everybody. It's a place for very specific individuals.
You cannot be more concerned with offending people.
If that conversation needs to happen, it needs to happen.
And again, make it applicable to your life. Maybe there's a conversation that you need to have with somebody in your life that you're, that you've been putting off because you're worried about offending them. If that conversation is rooted in integrity, have that conversation. Maybe you need to let somebody know that they've crossed a pretty strong boundary in your life. And I'm not one of those individuals that thinks you need to have 50 million boundaries.
Cause often nuance here as well, often [00:30:00] that is just you having walls up to keep people out. It's not protecting anybody. It's just keeping people out of your life. But if there is actually a boundary in your life that has been crossed by somebody and you don't want to have that conversation. I'm going to encourage you to have it because the more that you put that conversation off it is destroying yourself.
Trust it is destroying your confidence. It chips away at it every single day. Maybe you need to speak up about something at work or something in your business. Maybe it's somebody that works for you that you don't like something that they did, and you have to tell them, and you're putting off having that conversation because it's really, God damn uncomfortable.
Stop putting it off and have the conversation today. Have it today. Maybe it's an email that you have to send that you've been putting off because it's going to be edgy. It's going to be uncomfortable. Send it. Again, is it coming from anger or is it coming from integrity?
I've got some questions for you.
What is scarier? Think of this? What's scary to you. Is it being disliked for telling the truth? [00:31:00] Is that scary or is it living in a world that's built on lies because you stayed quiet.
The second one is white. Scary to me. I would much rather be disliked. Than to live in a world, built on lies that I never questioned. Cause I just, I was too scared to.
Because if your words are not making somebody uncomfortable, somebody. You're probably playing it too safe. If you are not offending somebody at this point in your life, you are. Absolutely playing way too safe. If you haven't had someone disagree with you, if you haven't had someone be really uncomfortable because of something that you've said you were playing it too safe.
So. I want to encourage you right now to begin to question what is deemed as unquestionable. Do you start your own conversations to remind the world that truth doesn't come wrapped in bubble wrap. Everybody just is so goddamn bubble wrap to these days. Everybody's so concerned with offending or with. Being labeled [00:32:00] as.
The weirdo. God, I wear that label.
I would encourage you. Don't do share this episode, have the conversations that are hard to have. Don't put it off any longer. Whatever is sprung into your mind during this episode that you've been putting off, don't put it off any longer. Using your voice. Isn't just rebellion. I see it as a rebellion, but it's more than that.
It's actually reclaiming ownership of your mind. That's what this is. It's about having critical thoughts. Being able to question things, being different. To what is commonly acceptable out there. And every time you actually speak. You're giving someone else permission to rise alongside with you as well.
So think about the influence that you have, the impact that you're here to have in your life. Again, it could be within your friendship circle. It could be outside of that. It could be in your business, in your career. Whatever make it applicable to you, but every time you speak, you are giving permission to someone else to rise alongside you.
Not that they need your permission, but it is like that. It's like a permission slip. People are [00:33:00] watching you people, what you, that you don't even realize they're paying attention to how you speak. They're paying attention to how you move through life. To your integrity. And the more that you actually say things. Even in the face of fear, even in the face of backlash criticism, and you say it from a place of integrity, it is so palpable and people feel that. People can feel like we're not stupid.
Human beings can tell when someone is saying something that is disruptive, but it's rooted in so much integrity. They're not trying to be polarizing for the sake of being polarizing. They're not trying to be edgy. What they're saying just is edgy because of the sheer fact of the D of the topic and of what they're saying, but it's rooted in absolute integrity.
It's rooted in courage. That individual is disruptive, but from a place of pure integrity and it's palpable, we feel that. And people will follow that. You will [00:34:00] attract your people so many. You're hearing a lot online. I've everybody wants to be magnetic these days. And I don't think a lot of people realize what that even means, because if you're magnetic, sure.
People are attracted to you. They're attracted to your magnetism, but think of a magnet, it also repels. You cannot be magnetic. If you're not repelling, you cannot be someone that people will follow. If you're not also absolute, absolutely repelling the ones who shouldn't be following you.
If you're more focused on having integrity and having absolute self-respect, you will question, you will raise your questions.
You will speak your truth no matter what. And you will also have the absolute self-trust knowing that whatever comes your way, you will move through it.
Because that's what self trustees it's being able to say. Yep. I've made this decision. I'm speaking my truth. And no matter what comes my way after it, I will be fine.
I will find a way to move through [00:35:00] it.
That is the utmost levels of self-trust. So share this episode, legends, thank you so much for tuning in. If you have any questions, please raise them on any of the social media platforms. As you know, I will discuss your questions. In a comment chaos episode. I always love when you have questions for me or when you just speak your mind. Tell me what you think.
Tell me what you think of this episode, what you think of. The world, what you think of. the politically correct movement? Tell me what you think. I will literally read it out loud in a comic chaos episode. And the more that we actually discuss our thoughts, someone else will resonate with what you have to say. Anyway, I love you.
Leave it there. Stop trying to be politically correct individual. You are not designed for that. You are way bigger than that. This world needs you and your voice exactly as it is. So do not silence yourself anymore. I love your guts. Legend. Have a great week. Bye.
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