Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Show Your Worth - Shelmina Babai Abji

6 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational video, Nick Hutchison introduces the book Show Your Worth by Shalmina Babai‑Abji, a senior tech executive who once felt "under" in multiple dimensions—language, economics, family background, and representation. Hutchison explains how these compounded insecurities lead many people to underestimate their own potential. He highlights that Babai‑Abji wrote the book to provide eight intentional strategies that help under‑confident individuals emerge as confident leaders. The video serves as a rallying call for anyone who feels undervalued to recognize their worth and apply the book’s framework.

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Today's video is for anybody that's underestimating their own potential, and in some way, shape, or form, unfortunately, that's a lot of us. The reason I'm making today's video is I just finished reading Show Your Worth by author Shalmina Babai-Abji, and even at the height of her success, a major tech executive at a major tech company, she still remembered how under she felt when she was first starting. Under-proficient in in English because it wasn't her first language. Underprivileged from an economic perspective. She was the first member of her family to go to college. Underrepresented as a woman of color in a major tech business. She felt under, and all of those unders can compound to make you underestimate your own potential. She didn't see a lot of people like her succeeding. She saw a lot of people like her underestimating themselves. So she wrote this book to teach you somebody who's underestimating themselves, 8 intentional strategies to emerge as the leader that you're capable of becoming and have more confidence.