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A Most Inspiring Speech by Courtney Mcleod. Everything was taken from her in the most important moment of her life. Shame, self-doubt and feelings of unworthiness transformed into her fuel and motivation.

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00:00 You're too ugly to play Dorothy.

00:07 We don't want you in this play.

00:13 Tears streamed down my face.

00:16 I burned with shame and embarrassment.

00:20 All of the unworthiness and self-doubt that I felt on a daily basis rose to the surface.

00:28 And I wanted to die in that moment.

00:31 This was the most important moment in my young life.

00:37 And there I was, sitting on the sideline, watching my play being performed without me.

00:45 When I was eight years old, I dreamed of being Dorothy from my favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz.

00:55 I longed to escape and to be someone else.

01:00 I wanted to be beautiful and sweet and have adventures with friends.

01:07 Instead of living my reality, which was being the shy, unpopular girl by day,

01:15 and at home, the lonely, only child, often caught in the middle of my parents' violent screaming matches.

01:26 As painful as that day was, I walked away with the understanding that I just wanted to be loved and supported for my uniqueness.

01:36 And that has become my fuel and my motivation for everything that I do.

01:41 You see, all of the characters in The Wizard of Oz go on this quest.

01:48 They just want the things that they desperately don't feel that they have.

01:52 A brain, courage, a heart.

01:56 And they feel that only this magical wizard can give it to them.

02:00 In the end, they realize they had those things all along.

02:05 Everything that we need for success, happiness, it's already in us.

02:11 We just need to believe in ourselves.

02:13 We were not meant to sit on the sidelines of our lives.

02:16 We were meant to impact the world in a way that only each of us can.

02:20 I now have two beautiful, amazing daughters of my own, ages eight and eleven.

02:29 And I do everything in my power to help them build their confidence for when they have their Dorothy moments.

02:36 And they will.

02:38 The motto in our house is to always be yourself, no matter what.

02:43 But more than that, be proud of who you are.

02:46 I still have Dorothy moments.

02:49 We all have Dorothy moments.

02:52 At least now, I can think to myself, there is no one like me.

02:56 There is no one like me.

02:58 There is no one like me, just like there is no one like you.

03:02 [Music]

Do This To Overcome Self Doubt | Courtney Mcleod

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