FREE LIVE WORKSHOP · WED 25 NOV · 8:00PM SGT · ON ZOOM
Own Your Story: How to UnShrink and Find Alignment in 2027
A free 60-minute session for Nusantara/minority women leaders and entrepreneurs
Who are highly capable and ambitious, but quietly misaligned and burning out, and ready to stop holding back and lead as their most aligned, unedited selves.
In this workshop learn how to:
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See where you're shrinking, and where those patterns really came from
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Turn your lived experience into the authority it already is
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Speak up with presence, without overproving or apologising
Does this feel familiar?
You know you’re capable of more, but you’re still holding yourself back
You're the most prepared person in the meeting, yet you still edit your opinion before you speak
You soften a completely reasonable point so you won't come across as “too much” or “aggressive”
You do double the work to be seen, and still feel people notice your identity first, your hijab perhaps, or your name, and your background before your track record
You undercharge because you don’t think you’re worth being paid more for your work, even though deep down you know you do
You worry about how your identity is perceived and carry the burden of representation
This isn't a confidence problem. Shrinking is a learned response to spaces that rewarded you for being less. And what was learned can be unlearned.
We will cover:
✔ Why highly capable women shrink, and why it was never a personal failing
✔ The 3 places shrinking hides: your language, your behaviour, and the opportunities you avoid
✔ How to stop overproving yourself in spaces where you're the only one like you and how to own that instead
✔ How to carry the weight of representation without letting it make you smaller
✔ What changed for women who did this work, in their own words
About your host:Sarah Bagharib
has made it her mission to help women stop shrinking and lead from their full identity
14+ years in media and comms, including producing for Al Jazeera, BBC and Bloomberg TV
TEDx speaker and emcee for summits of 600+ founders and investors
Founder of Crazycat, which has helped over 6,000 women tell their stories
Mother of two girls, and host of Nusantara Women Conversations
For years, I performed a version of myself that kept everyone comfortable. Burnout, motherhood, a public confrontation with racial bias and the decision to start wearing the hijab changed that.
Now I help ambitious and purposeful minority women leaders and entrepreneurs do what I had to learn the hard way: stop abandoning parts of themselves to be accepted.
On 25 November, there will be 36 days left in 2026.
Think back to January: maybe you promised yourself this would be the year you spoke up in that meeting, asked for the bigger role, raised your prices, or stopped saying yes to everything. And somewhere between the deadlines, or the school runs and holding everyone else together, you shrank and went quiet again. Not because you couldn't do it, but because editing yourself has become so automatic you barely notice you're doing it.
Before the year closes and the planning for 2027 begins, give yourself one hour to pause. Not to set more goals, but to look honestly at the year you've had: where you held back, what it cost you, and what you're no longer willing to carry into the new year.
Come and sit with like-hearted women who know what it’s like to not fit into boxes, and are ready to lead from alignment.
Yes, there is a way to be fully seen and taken seriously, without abandoning your identity, faith, or any part of who you are.