you’re pretty and you know it

So why are you hiding? 

Just admit it.

Everyone already knows. Some people say it out loud. Some people hold back, and the holding back itself is a kind of signal.

You know what’s true about you… you’re beauty. But you’ve been taught that naming your pretty is arrogant, vanity, pride. 

So you’ve learned to answer that truth with an appropriate and polite “thank you”, a humble shrug, a softened tone.  

Your false humility is getting you nowhere. It’s actually stunting you. 

Because when you won’t say what’s true, especially when it’s so obvious, you’ll start to doubt what you see. You let other people tell you what you’re looking at. 

And the longer you do that, the less you trust your own eyes, which is a problem for a woman who is anointed to lead. 

This is what the video was about: you can’t call a room clearly if you’re too scared to call yourself clearly.

Telling the truth about what’s visible, especially when it stings, is the first act of leadership. 

Your beauty is a sermon. It was meant to be heard, so let it preach. A thing designed to be heard can’t be amplified by someone who’s still apologizing for it.

You don’t have to shout. Your beauty already talks. You’ve just been hushing it.

Your Holy Hot Girl™ Coach,

Monique