Part 5: One last story before launch day 📘

In The Equity Edge, there’s a chapter called The Obstacle Course. It’s about something many of us know all too well:

🌀 “Who do I have to be in your eyes to get this job?”
🌀 “And who do I have to become in your eyes to get this promotion?”

That tug-of-war between who we are and who we’re expected to be.

This is the tightrope that so many high-potential professionals walk—especially when we’re seen as different.
Too bold. Too quiet. Too direct. Too emotional. Too much.
Or not enough of whatever someone imagines “leadership” should look like.

And that’s the real trap, isn’t it?

We start shaping ourselves around someone else’s comfort level.
Dimming. Bending. Second-guessing.
Not because we’re not qualified—
but because we’re navigating an invisible course of hidden rules and moving targets.

The Equity Edge doesn’t just name that pattern.
It gives us language to challenge it—
and tools to build systems where people don’t have to perform identity gymnastics just to be seen, hired, or promoted.

I wrote this book because the obstacle course is real—
but it’s not unchangeable.

📘 The Equity Edge is for leaders, recruiters, (job seekers), and anyone ready to stop perpetuating what they never intended to create.

📘 Order Today!

Let’s rewrite the rules.