Sally ZimneyFounder & CEO, Be Moved by Sally Z

Showing up anyway VS showing up at all costs

31 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker guides creators through the process of deciding how much personal content to share and how to overcome the fear that holds them back. She explains that the fear of sharing is normal and often serves to keep one "small," and once recognized, it can be set aside. The next step is to filter personal stories through the question "Why would my audience care?" to ensure relevance and connection. She emphasizes the importance of "showing up anyway"—pushing past fear to be present—while distinguishing it from "showing up at all costs," which would mean forcing presence when sick or when technical issues make it impossible. The overall message encourages authentic, audience‑focused sharing without sacrificing well‑being.

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Some things to think about as you are trying to figure out, like, how much do I share? What do I share? What's holding me back? Is this legitimate real fear that's holding me back, or am I just being kind of a scaredy cat about it? So once you figure out that, uh, this fear that you're feeling is just normal and it is trying to keep you small when you are trying to show up bigger, and you get to be as big as you want. Once you've done that, then it's really a matter of what to share in a way that's going to connect most with your audience. So it's okay to bring some of your real life into that. In fact, I think it's super, super important. But we want to use the filter of why would these people care about this? So once you have figured out that I'm not going to let this, what I call shrinking fear, keep me small and hold me back, and there is something of value and interest for my audience, then It's a matter of showing up anyway. It's not showing up at all costs. It's not showing up when you're not well. It's not showing up when the, just the tech isn't working and it's just not in the cards today. But I just want to make sure that we are not holding ourselves back because we're afraid. That's when we need to push ourselves to show up anyway.