Episode 50: Trusting Your Knowledge with Rebecca Mackay Miller
This week, we’re back with another live coaching episode!
I’ll be chatting with brand and storytelling strategist Rebecca Mackay Miller. Rebecca founded her company Bloc + Rose to help business owners create fulfilling brands that feel right and do good through feminist strategies and the power of story.
We talk about that very sneaky imposter syndrome, the shift that happens when you go from the corporate world to running your own business, and the vulnerability of not being able to hide behind a bigger organisation.
As we work through the patterns we fall into when we try to hold power, Rebecca also drops some amazing insights on why storytelling is essential within small businesses, especially in the frame of greater cultural understanding and evolution.
A big thanks to Rebecca for coming on and sharing her journey!
You can find Rebecca at:
or on IG @blocandrose
QUOTES
REBECCA
“I used to write thought leadership pieces. I used to do talks that marketing week. I loved it, but it was almost like it wasn't my [opinion]. It was my opinion, but it was protected by the shroud of this company name.”
“You own YOU. Your USP is you. What you have to bring is unique and that's what we dial up. That's what you step into”
“How can we evolve as individuals and people in a species if we're like: well, this is the way it's done. Because that actually goes against everything that it even is to be human.”
“Storytelling is so much more than a business tool. It's a responsibility because cultural narratives that have governed how we exist for however many years are rightly being dismantled…and people look everywhere for meaning, including small businesses and brands and people. So everything that we put out from a story point of view contributes to the making of the next cultural narrative.”
“Contributing and actually sharing what you think achieves the same thing, technically, because you are visible and showing up, but in a way that is far less connected to success.“
RAY
“What is it that you think is holding you back from either starting this story or continuing writing the sequel, making it a trilogy?
“There’s this feeling of like: if I'm in a powerful position, I have to know it all. And actually, when we do that we are holding onto power that's not ours.”
“The power you feel like you need to have doesn't exist. So you don't need to have it.”