Jul 15, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
Visibility is not vanity. It is infrastructure. If people cannot be seen, they cannot be funded, promoted, hired, followed, or supported. In this episode of *Is Anything Real?*, I sit down with…
Melissa MoodyGuest
Leslie GreenwoodGuest
Adam W. BarneyHost
It's clear that that didn't happen by accident, right? You're solving something real here.
In one sentence, even at the executive level, what's the biggest lie women get fed about visibility?
I would say the biggest, I don't know that, I suppose we're maybe fed it in a roundabout way.
But I would say the biggest lie is when you talk about what you've done publicly, it is egotistical and about you.
Whereas when you reframe it to share your experience so that others can gain from you, when you turn it into giving, it becomes much more palatable for a lot of the women we speak with.
But when I realized that when I show up and one more person sees their journey in my story and feels a little more comfortable and a little bit more empowered, it's worth it to me that's my why everybody has a different why for stepping into the light but we've all thought that the why for stepping into the light if we think about if we think it's for our ego and our own personal gain it feels ick if we reframe that in one of many other ways for women leaders all of a sudden it becomes very doable and potentially even joyful Right.
I mean, we see that from I mean, people have been specifically told that, you know, by their bosses, like, I need you to take down your newsletter off your LinkedIn for us.
But then also we did original research, you know, a couple of years ago about the socialization of young girls compared to boys.
And even the words that we were taught as children to describe what was good.
It's clear that that didn't happen by accident, right? You're solving something real here.
In one sentence, even at the executive level, what's the biggest lie women get fed about visibility?
I would say the biggest, I don't know that, I suppose we're maybe fed it in a roundabout way.
But I would say the biggest lie is when you talk about what you've done publicly, it is egotistical and about you.
Whereas when you reframe it to share your experience so that others can gain from you, when you turn it into giving, it becomes much more palatable for a lot of the women we speak with.
But when I realized that when I show up and one more person sees their journey in my story and feels a little more comfortable and a little bit more empowered, it's worth it to me that's my why everybody has a different why for stepping into the light but we've all thought that the why for stepping into the light if we think about if we think it's for our ego and our own personal gain it feels ick if we reframe that in one of many other ways for women leaders all of a sudden it becomes very doable and potentially even joyful Right.
I mean, we see that from I mean, people have been specifically told that, you know, by their bosses, like, I need you to take down your newsletter off your LinkedIn for us.
But then also we did original research, you know, a couple of years ago about the socialization of young girls compared to boys.
And even the words that we were taught as children to describe what was good.
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