A short YouTube excerpt featuring a conversational prompt ("imagine your 17-year-old self") and an emphatic response advising listeners to speak up, assert their worth at the table, and refuse to be intimidated—drawing on personal experience and missed opportunities to object. The clip centers on empowerment, self-advocacy, and claiming fair treatment in professional settings.
So a question I like to ask people is imagine that your 17 year old self is watching you right now.
Speak up. Don't let people play in your face. Whatever table you're at, you worked your ass to get there. You deserve to be there. And don't let anybody make you feel like you don't. Because there's so many situations I've been in that I didn't say, nah, that, or like, hold up, no.
Wait a.
Minute, or no, you need to pay me because I just made you $1.2 million on this deal. What you mean you can't, you ain't got. There's so many times that I didn't feel because most of the industries I've been in, I worked at the NBA, I worked at espn, I worked, you know, in entertainment. I've always worked in environments where, you know, it was more so male dominated.
