On building visibility through conversations #BeingSeen2026 💎
Week Two: Leading Conversations
Hey friend,
Welcome to Week 2 of Being Seen Visibility Challenge. How did Week One go?
Honestly, a LOT came up for me.
There was an excavation of old wounds. Even thinking about posting on LinkedIn twice a week called me to examine how much space I think I should be taking up. How I’ve been capping myself without realising.
Because there’s a part of me locked into old stories and internalised socialisation - classic good girl behaviour.
Making space for everyone around her but her.
Minimising the parts of herself she’s dying to express.
Downplaying her potential, capability and capacity.
Erasing entire parts of herself.
Perfecting the art of non-existence.
So when I ask myself “what’s stopping me from being more visible?” I know the work I need to do.
We all have so much un-learning when it comes to our visibility.
And as I worked on the exercises around possibility, I found myself returning to the Marianne Williamson quote:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?”
Who are we not to be who we know at cellular level we want to be? And how does this play out in our relationship with visibility?
I’d love to know what came up for you.
Leading Conversations
Moving into Week Two: we’re talking conversations, my friend.
The ones you want to lead, to own, to be recognised for.
When you consistently show up in specific discussions – bringing your unique perspective, asking real questions, challenging thinking - you build association with those topics.
People start to connect your name with your expertise. It’s how authority develops: not through broadcasting, but through genuine engagement. Trust follows when you show up authentically, contribute generously, and stay curious.
The conversations you choose to own shape how you’re seen, what you’re valued for, and who actively seeks you out.
Sustained, meaningful participation in the right conversations – one that ideally, hasn’t been put through a machine and starts with human thoughts, human voice and human questions – that listens - that’s how you build a reputation that connects, resonates, creates change.
It’s how you build thought leadership.
A powerful point that came through Being Seen, is how, as leaders, as creatives, as business owners, we can intentionally expand the conversation: how we invite our community into these points of connection, with intentional leadership.
#BeingSeen Week Two
Things are about to get juicy, team.
For Week Two I’ve invited my good friend Emma Griffin, website copywriter and hook strategist, to guide us through the prompts. Emma takes your marketing message from run-of-the-mill to run and tell EVERYONE -so you can finally show up as the real deal in your industry. She’s basically the Sienna Miller in her industry – bold, brilliant and entirely herself. And she lives in Reading now.
Sign up for her Feel Good Copy email series (designed to help you ditch the “shoulds” and write well without rules), or check out her Substack on nurturing a creative practice outside of paid-for creative work here.
Emma suggests we start getting clear on our conversations here –
1) Identify - Which conversations do you want to lead, and why?
Do all of them fall naturally under your business umbrella, or do some feel nebulous and unrelated? What are some ways you can make these dialogues feel more naturally linked to your work? In what ways might you be overthinking the things you want to say, and diluting your voice, opinion or thoughts to fit in with an online/business version of you that doesn’t actually exist?
2) Alignment audit - Audit your marketing from the last 6 months.
Were the conversations you led aligned with your most authentic thoughts? Or were you skirting around the truth of what you had to say? Are there any blocks stopping you from sharing what you want? Fear of judgement? Fear of being cancelled? Fear of disappointing your audience? A lack of language for the nuance of what you do? What do you need to shift going forward to lead these conversations? List three things you’ll change in 2026 to make visible ownership of these conversations feel natural to you.
3) Messaging - Be honest: are you 100% clear on your own messaging, or does it all feel a bit woolly?
Often when we are struggling to show up and be seen, it’s because we aren’t clear on what we want to say anymore. Maybe you once were, but your business and audience shifted so the old conversations you once led with passion now feel too small. Maybe you were never clear, so you never quite landed on The Thing you want to be known for. Spend some time thinking about where your messaging might not reflect your wider mission, and what tweaks you need to bring into it.
Week Two Action:
As Emma invites you to, list three things you’ll change in 2026 to make visible ownership of these conversations feel natural to you.
You don’t have to answer everything. You don’t have to have it all figured out. It’s still January.
Just start the conversation with yourself about the conversations you want to lead. To support the foundations of your evolving visibility going into the year.
Write down what comes up. Get honest. Get specific.
And as always, I’d love to hear what you’re discovering.
Share one insight below or tag me @antoniataylor with #BeingSeen2026 wherever you are.
And if you want to invite a friend or colleague to join us, it’s not too late to start now.
Let’s go.❤️
With love,
Antonia
"She’s basically the Sienna Miller in her industry."
OK, I can retire now!
I watched a Florence Given video this week and the idea of entering your “who does she think she is?” era really stayed with me. It made me reflect on how often our fear of visibility is tied to other women’s judgement. Great tips by Emma x