Welcome back to the Vault, where Icons are formed. We’re glad you’re in the room.

"Hey Temi, do you know anything about this decision?"

"Temi, what happened with X?"

"Hey Temi, I was wondering if you knew about Y?"

For the longest time, I recoiled at these questions. I couldn't understand why people kept pulling me into conversations I was never formally invited to. No one gave me that title. No one put me in that meeting. And yet, here they were.

And what made it worse? Not knowing, and then watching my team get negatively impacted because I hadn't been kept in the loop.

I used to huff and puff about it — wishing people would just let me mind my business and live in blissful ignorance. Until I realized it wasn't a setup. It was never random.

Last week, we worked through a reflective worksheet to help identify and reclaim our significance. (If you missed it, catch the replay here.) One of the questions we explored: What do people ask you for, even when you haven't offered it?

That pattern is rarely an accident. What you're suppressing or downplaying is often of great value — and may be necessary to the people around you. It may even be a responsibility you carry toward your world.

Here's the blunt truth: people aren't waiting for who you think you should be. They're waiting for who you are.

If you're feeling that pull, work through the handout from last week. The questions will help you unpack how to keep adding value — and better align with your irreplaceable human edge.

What might someone miss out on if you keep hiding? How much time will they waste searching for an alternative? What problems will they keep running into — ones you could have solved?

We're going deeper on this next week. Come join the conversation.

You are more than what you produce. Always have been. Always will be.

Until next time,

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