When you’re new to leadership or launching your first venture, people tell you to “find your voice.” But what they don’t tell you is that your voice isn’t just a sound. It’s a signal. A signal to the world that you’ve arrived—not to echo others, but to be heard in a way only you can be. Finding your voice isn’t about volume. It’s about vibration. It’s about resonance. The kind of resonance that shakes tables and breaks ceilings—not with noise, but with truth.
And truth? It doesn’t always walk in the room with a megaphone. Sometimes, it arrives with a tremble. A whisper. A doubt. But that doubt—that raw, real, beating thing inside your chest—is where the magic lives. That’s the birthplace of voice. Your voice is found in the moment you dare to stand in your story. Not the one you wrote to impress your mentors, but the one that shaped your scars and fueled your mission.
I’ve walked that path. As a Poetic Voice, a motivational poet, a performer who’s blended art with leadership for decades, I didn’t find my voice in someone else’s formula. I found it by fusing who I am with what I believe. That fusion—of purpose and presence—is what creates a voice the world can’t ignore.
And here’s the truth: your audience doesn’t need you to be perfect. They need you to be present. They want to see the leader who sweated through the uncertainty and still showed up to serve. That’s the kind of authenticity that doesn’t just capture attention—it captures allegiance. Because in a marketplace full of polished pitches and borrowed bravado, the most inspiring sound is the one that feels like home.
That’s the power you have as a new leader. The power to speak not just to impress, but to connect. Not just to perform, but to transform. Your voice isn’t just about commanding attention at a company sales conference. It’s about commanding connection in every conversation. And the only way to do that is to stop chasing what’s already been said… and start becoming what only you can say.
So don’t wait until you’ve figured it all out. Speak now. Speak scared. Speak from the imperfect place where your purpose lives. And know this: every time you speak your truth, your voice finds its wings.
Because the world doesn’t need another leader who sounds like everyone else.
It needs you. Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Undeniably real.
That’s how you lead. That’s how you inspire. That’s how you’re remembered.
