Visible Friday #5: Shoot Your Shot (+ a bonus mixtape playlist)

🐦‍⬛ This week: shoot your shot...

Not recklessly. Not in a "put it out to the universe" kind of way.

Just one small, deliberate act that takes you somewhere you haven't quite been willing to go yet.

A podcast you'd love to be on. A publication you want to write for. Someone whose work you genuinely admire and whose radar you'd like to be on. A collaboration idea sitting in your drafts. A workshop proposal. A DM. An email. An ask.

Most of us wait. We wait until we feel ready enough, established enough, polished enough to deserve the ask. We wait for visibility to arrive before we risk being visible.

But it usually works the other way around.

Courage tends to show up first - and it often looks completely ordinary. Sending the email. Pressing publish. Introducing yourself to that neighbourhood centre. Starting the Death Café. Replying instead of lurking. Letting yourself be seen before you feel certain.

This isn't about being louder. It's about making yourself more available to what's possible.

What if once a month we made a ritual of this? Carving out space for the courage to do something for our future selves. Consciously nudging the edges of our comfort zones. Forging a path in the direction of what's actually calling us.

So, your Visible Friday prompt for this week:

What's one shot you could take that your future self would thank you for - even if the answer turns out to be no?

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Drop yours in the comments - let's inspire each other, swap ideas, maybe even help each other craft the ask.

Mine makes me wince a little to say out loud, but I've always wanted to be on the radar of Sarah Kerr at Sacred Deathcare. So I'm going to shelve my fangirl nerves and reach out.

What's yours?

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And because courage can grow collectively, I’ve made us a playlist mixtape.

A shared 45minute soundtrack for sending the email.

Pitching the idea.

Hitting publish.

Taking the meeting.

Backing yourself.

Trying anyway.

I love the thought of all of us, in different places, building braver lives while listening to the same songs.

A small invisible thread between us.

So before you talk yourself out of it:

Put the playlist on.

Turn it up.

And remember —

“I’m not throwing away my shot.” 🎵

SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5IGD0pI39xbPDezav9lU8k?si=909c818dd1a34e00

(Warning: may lead to some serious dancing - know that I'm right there with you... I love nothing more than an impromptu home office/kitchen dance party! Let's goooooo!)

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Visible Friday #5: Shoot Your Shot (+ a bonus mixtape playlist)