An Australian host challenges Tall Poppy Syndrome, the cultural habit of downplaying success, by urging entrepreneurs to adopt American-style confidence. She observed American business owners freely share revenue figures, team size, and brand partnerships. Her advice: identify your credibility markers and state them without apology.
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Welcome to five Minutes of Momentum. These episodes are a short five minute burst of inspiration, motivation and massive action. If you need that little kick up the butt to get things moving and to inspire you to take massive action, then every single Thursday, I'll be sending you through a five minute episode to download, digest and implement to finish your week off strong. Are you ready to get started? Let's go. Welcome back to five Minutes of Momentum. Today I want to talk to you about how to, to borrow some confidence from Americans so we can just kick this Tall Poppy syndrome thing to the curb. I feel like with every new generation, it's getting better and better, but it's still there. Like that Tall Poppy syndrome still shows up for a lot of Australians and causes us to play small and worry about how we're seen within our circles of friends and the circles of business that we're in and Australia as a whole. There's two ways that the Tall Poppy syndrome plays up, right? So one is that we fear being torn down if we start stepping outside the norm of what everyone else around us is doing, right? So there's evidence there that, like, if, you know, we get torn down. The second way that it shows up, which I see this a lot when we do a lot of money mindset work, is the attitude or the energy of being the battler. So in Australia, we do very much villainize the person who's doing really well and succeeding and we lift up the battler. Like, we love to see the underdog win. We love to see people battle and struggle and then when they come out the other side. This is why often, like with entrepreneurial story journeys, people always feel like they have to have a sob story in order to prove their worthiness of being able to have that level of success, which is bonkers, right? It's like, what makes someone deserving of their success? Nothing other than they went for it, they wanted it, they went for it, that's it. And so with spending some time over in America and I've spent a lot of time in America, so FYI, just not my recent trip. So I've spent a lot of time with Americans. Previously I used to work on cruise ships, spent three years years traveling around the world and working on American cruise liners. So I worked with a lot of Americans and also we served a lot of Americans, majority of Americans. And then I spent a lot of time in America and then also recently have just been back and I'm about to head back over now. One of the things that was become so apparent in the last trip to America, when I was in a room of incredible entrepreneurs, I started hearing their stories of success and we did some introductions and we got to meet and mastermind with a few different people. And we were in a room about 80 people I think it was. And what really stood out to me and was even my fear, my hesitation to actually share how well I've done or where I'm at in business. One of the things that was really so clear to me was how easy it was for them to share publicly and very confidently their accomplishments and how well they've done and their credibility markers, right, Was really interesting. So so many people that I was introduced to, they basically would like have a little spiel of like, I've done this, I've done this, I've done this, I've done this. And they will be credibility markers, right? Like I was on the COVID of Forbes. I am a multi six figure business owner. I have 10 team. I have achieved this. Like I won this award. Like, they were so forthcoming in the way that they shared their accomplishments. And what really was so phenomenal to see was that there was no hesitation or doubt or fear around it. It was not like, oh, like, is it okay if I share this with you? It was like, hey, cool, this is who I am. Like, it was just unapologetic. I absolutely freaking loved it. And I was like, I need to borrow some of their confidence to feel so unapologetic in the way that I share my wins and my celebrations and my accomplishments. And I feel like you need to do this too. The other reason why this has become so clear to me recently is that I was talking to a friend of mine who has a business that she has done incredibly well. She actually shared with me a story about how a coach said to her, share with me your pitch. So how do you talk about your business? And she basically shared this pitch that was basically a little bit about like what they do, right? And who they are. And he turned around and said to her, what I want you to do is actually start sharing the top level of brands that you've been working with and some of, one of the one key piece of success that actually shows how, how good you are at what you do. And she was like, oh, I couldn't, I could, I don't think I could do that. And she was like. He was like, cool, let's, let's brainstorm this. Like, let's come up with some really cool, cool forms. And so she was like, oh, okay. So one credibility marker would Be like, we've got over 5,000 members within our community. We've also worked with top brands like Amazon and Walmart. And like she actually had a quite a list of incredible top brands that she'd worked with. And right then and there it almost became so clear to her. She was like, oh, of course nobody was really paying attention to my little business because the way that I was presenting it was from a perspective of it being a little business. And so what I love from that is like, now she confidently goes out and shares those credibility markers to be like, hey, this is how good we are without it being boastful. Like, this is the thing, it's such a fine line in Australia. Like, we're so worried about being boastful, we're so worried about being top noting ourselves when really people don't know how good you are unless you actually freaking tell them. So I want you to think about this for your business. What are some credibility markers that you can start sharing that help you stand out from the crowd, that help you become seen as the go to person that make you sound like you know what the hell you're doing, Right? Like, I think sometimes we, we so just get stuck in the same thing that we just say. We've already always had a little elevator pitch, but unless you put some credibility markers in there, it's just landing on deaf ears because people have heard all the bloody 50 million pitches. So what are some of the things that you can start saying? And I'd love for you to start playing with that and see the response that you get. I want you to start seeing people's eyes light up and being like, wow, that's amazing, right? And then see how you allow yourself to receive that response. Because why that you receive it also, it will be very telling, right? We've got to be comfortable receiving it because you've actually achieved those accomplishments. So own it. Own it unapologetically. Go out there and share it more often.
