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                    Cleo's POV

"Hey everybody and welcome back to part two of the Creator's Collective Broadcast sponsored by Google and YouTube. If you're just joining us, I'm Cleopatra Tatum your friendly neighborhood life coach and I'm here to shine just a little bit of the sunshine I've got stored in my pockets." I smiled as the crowd clapped

"In part one we talked about the Do's and Dont's of relationship breakups. Here in part two we'll be talking about Confidence." I smiled as crossed my legs in my seat

"When it comes to confidence my biggest problem used to be me worried about what other people thought of me. I learned that in the end none of that matters; let's chat" I nodded

"To put it plainly, what other's think of you is NOT your business. What goes on in THIER mind has nothing to do with you. It's really your internal urge to seek approval, validation, recognization, inclusion, and acceptance. All of that stems from YOU relating your happiness with pleasing and living life from someone else's perspective"

The crowd was super attentive

"I know from experience that fixing the way you think about yourself is easier said than done but here are some steps that helped me level up my self esteem. The first step is to STOP staring at yourself in that mirror and picking yourself apart; instead focus on the things you like about yourself."

I watched as people in the crowd nodded and I could've swore I seen some people writing stuff down

"Second step is to STOP comparing yourself to other people. No one on this planet has it together, everyone has issues from the person sitting next to you, all the way up to me standing here and yapping" I said causing the people to laugh a little

"The third step is to learn to forgive yourself for everything you've let slide in the past, you know better now so don't beat yourself up about it. Once you learn to love yourself everything else will fall into place. When I first got with my husband I used to self sabotage a lot because my state of mind at the time was that he could do better and that he was wasting his time with me" I said as I puckered my lips and raised my eyebrows

The crowd laughed

"Clearly that's not true but I was in my own head so bad that had he not gathered your girl up; I would've missed out of the world's greatest man!" I giggled which made the crowd laugh too

"It might sound insane but start to think of yourself as your favorite thing..like cake. If I told you that your favorite cake flavor was disgusting are you gonna stop eating it or are you gonna ignore me?"

The crowd laughed and shouted out how they'd ignore my ass

"Exactly and if you MUST listen to people's opinion.. make sure it's the people who matter. Not Nancy from the coffee shop, not Jim who works on your car, and definitely not Monica at the nail salon." I said causing the crowd to laugh

"Listen to the positive comments from your family, your friends, your teachers, your man, but most importantly..yourself" I finished

Once again everyone stood up and clapped

I really liked this feeling

"The last thing I wanna talk to you guys about today is fear..fear stops you from making big decisions, going for that job you want, going for that girl or guy you want, or going for that hair color you want. Fear stops it all but I can promise you that a leap of faith will get you so far to the point that when you look back you won't even see where you started from" I started

"I want you guys to imagine being at a crosswalk getting ready to walk across the road..on the other side of the street is everything you've ever wanted for yourself plus more. Now metaphorically there could be a car coming from either side; you look to your left and you look to your right. There's no cars in sight but you have this thought of what if" I continued

"What if a car comes from the right? So you look to the right again. What if the car comes from the left? So you look to the left again. What if magically the car comes from the right again? Well now you're looking to right again BUT guess what? You haven't moved, you've made no progress because you're worrying about the what ifs that you already checked for. News flash; you're worried about the wrong what if." I added

"You're scared to apply for that higher up position because you MIGHT not get it but WHAT IF you did? You're scared to ask out that pretty girl at the coffee shop on a date because she MIGHT say no but WHAT IF she says yes? You'll never know what lies behind another door until you open it."

"I too used to ask myself the what ifs. What if I made a channel and nobody cared what I had to say? What if my words didn't help anyone? What if? I'm happy to say that I took that risk, I opened that door and guess what was on the other side..all of your beautiful faces" I said as everyone clapped

"So take that risk and love yourself because you matter, you deserve happiness, and YOU are enough" I finished

Again another standing ovation

"Once again, I'm Cleopatra Tatum aka your friendly neighborhood life coach and I wanna Thank you so much for spending time with me here at the Creator's Collective Broadcast whether you tuned in here or at home, I appreciate you and I love you. Thank you again to YouTube and Google for having me here; I had an amazing time!" I smiled before walking off the stage

I high fived myself and did my little happy dance

I for sure did my big one tonight

"Go Cleo, go Cleo, go Cleo, go" I sang as I danced my way to the back

I was on cloud 2000 right now and I was beyond proud of myself

I knew for a fact that I did well tonight and knowing how big of a platform this was, I was prepared for all the feedback in the morning

Hopefully I was able to reach my target audience and someone out there heard exactly what they needed to hear tonight.

I couldn't wait to call my man and tell him all about it but for now I just headed to the dressing room to change into more comfortable shoes for tonight's award ceremony

I've also met some other content creators who seemed to be pretty down to earth and I could see myself collaborating with them in the near feature

This was a big step for my career and so far it's a step in the right direction.

AN: hey guys! I appreciate you reading so far and I hope you guys like the story!

My original thought for this story was to have it be at least 55 parts meaning there's only 7 more chapters to go 🥳

I truly enjoy reading you guys comments and reactions! Yall are too funny🤣

But yeah enough yapping!
Thanks for reading

~Lee❤️