I was recently reading Arlan Hamilton’s book, It’s About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage. In Chapter 2, Part 6, she included tips she’s found helpful when she’s about to give a speech or a talk. The tips are to help combat imposter syndrome and other normal feelings of insecurity. Her first tip 1 is to listen to songs of empowerment and she shared her list of songs. I decided to write the list down and give the songs a listen, and see if her songs empowered me.
Rather than hunt down audio tracks, I searched YouTube and created the list below.
17 Songs of Empowerment
Get Up 10, Cardi B
Battle Cry, Angel Haze ft Sia
New Agenda, Janet Jackson
Skyscraper, Demi Lovato
Price Tag, Jessie J
Red Light, Johnny Ling
Follow Your Arrow, Casey Musgraves
Roar, Katy Perry
Keep Your Head Up, 2 Pac
Crazy, Kelani
Fly, Rihanna & Nikki Minaj
All I Have, NF
Try, Pink
Chandelier, Sia
Run This Town, Jay-Z ft Rihanna and Kanye West
This Moment, Janine
Somebody Loves You, Betty Who
Well, I don’t know how empowered I feel after this list, but I still think this is a great exercise. I should come up with my own list and see what I can create. It would be nice to have a list to listen to before work or any time I want to feel a little push.
There’s more to be found about Arlan Hamilton, her book, and her venture capital firm, Backstage Capital, at itsaboutdamntime.com.