Shake The Table—Or Better Yet, Build Your Own

For too long, we’ve been taught to wait—wait for a seat, wait for approval, wait for permission to show up and take space. But let’s be real: who decided these tables were even worth sitting at? Who made these rules? And why should we play by them?

No more waiting. We’re shaking the table. Hell, we might just flip the whole damn thing over.

Because the truth is, power has never been given—it’s taken. And if you don’t see a seat for you? If the space wasn’t designed with you in mind? Then, baby, it’s time to build your own.

Shaking the Table: A How-To Guide

🔹 Stop asking for permission.
Nobody owns success. Nobody owns opportunity. That thing you’re passionate about? That business, that art, that vision? Do it. The industry won’t make space for you? Create your own industry.

🔹 Disrupt the status quo.
Too often, we try to fit into spaces that weren’t built for us. But why conform when you can redefine the standard? Speak up. Challenge the outdated. Set new trends. Be so undeniable they have to take notice.

🔹 Understand your power.
We are not just participants in culture—we are the blueprint for it. Everything they try to sell back to us? It started with us. The creativity, the style, the energy. Own that. Move with confidence.

🔹 Be unapologetic.
Don’t shrink yourself to make others comfortable. Don’t dim your light so they feel less threatened. Take up space, loudly. Walk in like you belong—because you do.

🔹 If they won’t let you in, build something better.
Listen, there’s nothing special about a table made by people who don’t respect you. Stop knocking on doors that were never meant for you. Create your own lane, set your own rules, build your own empire.

Because the ones who changed the game? They weren’t sitting around waiting for their moment. They took it. And now? It’s our turn.

It’s YOUR turn.

-Tish