🔥 The quiet flex: In Community #103

Your weekly spark centering entrepreneurial leaders, creators, and culture-makers from the rising majority

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🙌🏽 Welcome to In Community.

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“You have to have insane confidence in yourself, even if it’s not real.” — Mindy Kaling, producer, writer, actress

We don’t talk enough about the fatigue of being “the one.”

The one with the perspective.

The one with the language.

The one who can translate culture into strategy, pain into insight, and nuance into a 360 campaign deck executives suddenly call “brilliant.”

We’ve mastered excellence in silence. Now it’s time to master visibility with purpose.

Not performative. Not just LinkedIn-optimized. Not the “humbled to announce” strictly corporate promotion.

I’m talking about the kind of visibility that’s for us: Expands influence. Multiplies opportunities. Reminds the world that we don’t just inspire markets — we move them.

This is about building in public, even when you’re tired, overlooked, or over the nonsense.

Because hiding your process? That helps no one.

🔥 Quick break — I need your help, for real

I’ve been pouring into my YouTube channel — unfiltered takes, community breakdowns, behind-the-scenes thinking, and of course, my new show interviewing inspiring leaders.

I’m pushing hard to hit 1,000 subscribers in the next two weeks, and I’m only 14% of the way there. That’s 86% left to go! And I can’t do it without this community.

👉🏽  If you’ve ever gotten value from Hue or my work — stop for 5 seconds and hit subscribe. Your support genuinely moves the mission forward.

And make sure to catch the latest episode out today, featuring Dr. Marcus Collins, best-selling author, Beyonce’s former strategy lead, and expert on culture.

Tune in. Subscribe. Be part of the movement.

✨ The Visibility Loop (Your Cheat Sheet)

Use The Visibility Loop, my 5C framework to help you start to flex.

CLARITY: Know the story only you can tell.
CREATION: Turn your thinking into shareable moments.
CONSISTENCY: Not daily — just unmistakably you.
COMMUNITY: Engage the people already leaning in.
CURRENCY: Convert influence into opportunity, income, impact.

Do this with intention. Repeat. Refine. That’s the quiet flex.

🔗 Your Confidence Bridge

Remember what Mindy Kaling said? Sometimes confidence comes before clarity. Sometimes, your story — your perspective, your voice — deserves to be heard before everything feels fully ready.

That’s building in public: showing work before it’s perfect. Claiming space before the world recognizes it. Taking up air in rooms that weren’t designed for people like you. 

Confidence isn’t the starting line — it’s the bridge. From “unseen” → “undeniable.”

Show your work. Not for applause. Not for validation.

For impact. For equity. For the next generation watching us do what hasn’t been done before.

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Early-access signups are open — follow the journey, shape the curriculum, get early pricing.

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🎁 P.S. Don’t Miss This! Give/Get: Holiday Joy Exchange

Before the year closes, join us for a high-energy, virtual community event:

  • Give: Offer a skill, insight, or connection

  • Get: Ask for help, feedback, or an intro

  • Connect: Build genuine relationships and leave inspired

Quick, simple, powerful — a space to give, get, and grow together.

📅 When: Dec 10th at 5pm ET
💻 Where: Online (Zoom)
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This is your moment to show up, connect, and close the year with momentum. Don’t sleep on it.

✅ Now Hiring

What you asked for, delivered.

Is someone you know considering what’s next for them? Here are a few roles with people hiring across the network. I’ll be adding roles here every week, so stay tuned and make sure to spread the word.

💥 Content & Community Specialist — Hue (Haaaaalp, I’m still hiring for this one!)

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In community,

Fahad