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Stacy Collins

@stacy.collins239

6 months ago

Posted On: April 14th 2026, 11:34 pm

Those athletic letters come easy for Ty, but this year he brought home an academic letter😁🧡🖤 he even surprised himself with this one😂 Proud of my boy❤️

Comments (3)

6 months ago

kj.__876

🔥🔥

6 months ago

chelsea_collettedc

Soooo great !🔥🔥

6 months ago

coachemupdre

My man! Stay great young king!

Lesson 6 💌: You don’t have to change who you are or how you look to be taken seriously.

Looking back, I don’t think it was the complaint itself that affected me most. It was what I took away from it.

That perhaps if I dressed a little differently, wore less makeup, made less effort with my appearance, blended in a little more… people might take me more seriously.

And I think we have all been there…

Changed something about ourselves, not because we wanted to, but because we worried about how we might be perceived.

Of course, there are professional standards, dress codes and safety considerations. I’ve spent my career in medicine, and I understand their importance.

But there’s a difference between dressing appropriately for your job and feeling you have to dull your personality to be respected in it.

At the time, I was a young medical student. I didn’t question it. I just put on scrubs and got on with my day.

And perhaps that’s the bit I’d do differently now. Not necessarily the clothes, but the assumption that someone else’s judgement of my appearance must mean there was something wrong with it.

As I raise my daughters, I want them to understand that feedback is important, but not every opinion requires them to change.

You can be feminine, enjoy fashion, love makeup, wear pink shoes AND be intelligent, capable and professional.

One doesn’t cancel out the other.

And I wish my younger self had understood that a little sooner.

Have you ever changed how you look or dress because you worried you wouldn’t be taken seriously?

What would you buy if given KSh 25 million and only 30 minutes to spend it, without buying a car, house, yacht or plane?

@kontrolledinsanity 𝐊𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐒 ~ just keep lifting and let time do its thing 🙂‍↔️
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Stacy Collins

@stacy.collins239

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