This week I've been thinking about being audacious. It's not just been this week to be honest. It's been at least a year in the making and then a few months of talking about it. The openly talking about it has really helped not only build my confidence, but it's also brought a real sense of joy to my work.Being audacious in community creates belief. Not just to our own efforts, but also to that of others. It helps us all believe in what we are trying to do is possible. When we believe something is possible, magic happens.And, this week, the vibe is that good things come to those who are audacious. It pays to be audacious. And perhaps, even more so, as a woman, founder, neurodivergent, 5x mother, the odds are always against people like me to succeed.Sometimes the barriers feel too big to overcome. That life would be easier not pushing for the big changes we believe in. People like me have no choice but to be audacious. To believe that we can do it. It was being audacious that helped me overcome my complete sh*t of 2024 year of stress and burnout.It was being audacious that helped me push through with creativity. To find the joy that helped me claw my way through.Being audacious is what the haters will interpret as arrogance, but it's far from that. It's me embracing myself. Realising I have so much to give. And picking myself day after day to create change.Being audacious, at some point, becomes a necessity. It's the remedy against enshittification. It's saying enough. It's saying no. It's saying that we can do better. And then it's doing something about it, rather than just talking about it.Being audacious is believing in the pot of gold at the end of the tunnel, even if you have no idea how you'll get there. It will help you find your way.Being audacious is a sign of care. And those who know me will know that I say community is care. I'm being audacious because I deeply care about my work and the community that I serve.Being audacious is simply being true to myself. It helped me lose my public speaking nerves because I simply felt comfortable showing up as who I am.And of course, being audacious is like a flywheel. The more you do and believe in it, the more you realise you can achieve. My previous self would never have believed I could build the best tech community out there. I now believe that is a possibility (where I still have a long way to go and it could still fail), but the point is, the odds are increasing in my favour.What I've written this week:Designers need us more than they realiseThe AI Minimum Viable Community