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Lilly Singh

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2022-04-21
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  1. “I think it's more so that the people who are the most powerful in my upbringing were men. They were the men in my family, the men at a family party that were in the corner, they got to control the conversation with they said goes, men notoriously in Indian culture are the decision makers, the powerful people. And I know one thing that the men in India, and I don't want to paint all Indian culture men, but I'm just saying as a kid, it was evident to me that the uncles made the decisions. They got to decide what was acceptable, not acceptable. And so I knew one thing that the men would understand was power, money, and influence. And so I think I strived for a career that would give me those things so I could kind of prove a point to them. Being like, you may not understand my value in any other way aside from money, power, and influence. And to some extent, I was not wrong. I've done a lot of cool things in my life, but the things that really made my dad and my uncles go wide-eyed were things like the Forbes list, where things like, oh, she's in a headline. She has her own show. Those are the...”

    2022-04-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Lilly Singh: My Deepest Insecurities Led To My Greatest Achievements · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Life, and if you look at the pattern of everything I've done in my career, I've only now connected the dots that the common thread between all of that is proving myself. And so even when I started making YouTube videos in 2010, a lot of people asked me, why did you do that? And I can give you the answer that I think people want to hear, which was, I want to create a path and no one else was doing what I was doing. And sure, that's all true to some extent, but the real reason was I wanted to be powerful and have influence because I wanted to prove people wrong. I think that has always been that chip on my shoulder. I wanted to prove that being a girl was worthy of celebration. And so that has been a thing that has followed me. So that is truly the chip on my shoulder. That now I'm just fully transparent about.”

    2022-04-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Lilly Singh: My Deepest Insecurities Led To My Greatest Achievements · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Yes Yes, yes, yes. I was obsessed with doing the Rock Johnson. I loved wrestling. I wore baggy clothes. I rebelled in every such way because of this expectation that was set upon me. I think in my adult life, I have learned, and I don't think I knew this growing up. And I don't think I even knew this years ago. I think this is a quite recent revelation. That experience has put a very heavy chip on my shoulder that I carry in my adult life. And I think for a lot of my life, I was scared to admit that, or I was embarrassed to admit that because no one wants to admit that they have this chip on their shoulder. But now I fully embrace it. That chip on the shoulder is for most of my life, I always felt like I had to prove myself in every instance, no matter what it was, whether it was school grades, whether it was my dancing ability, whether it was how I could speak up at a family party. In every instant, I always felt like I had to prove myself worthy because I was born into this reality where being a girl is lesser in Indian culture. And that has followed me into my adult.”

    2022-04-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Lilly Singh: My Deepest Insecurities Led To My Greatest Achievements · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Not even accepted, but if I wanted to make people proud, I think more than anything. I never felt like I wasn't accepted, but if I wanted to be extraordinary in the eyes of people that were disappointed in me, I had to fit the mold. And so a lot of my upbringing was a little bit of this simultaneous I need to fit the mold, but then this rebellious side of me being like, but I don't want to and kind of negotiating that balance”

    2022-04-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Lilly Singh: My Deepest Insecurities Led To My Greatest Achievements · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “The lessons at the age of ten I don't think were necessarily beneficial ones. I was born into the reality of being a disappointment right away, being the second daughter in an Indian family. I was told in my adult life that my grandparents, great-grandparents in India didn't find out about my birth for about two weeks because they had said, if it's not a son, it's not worth calling home about. So that really colored in a lot of my childhood because whether it was ridiculous things like, oh, you know, girls aren't supposed to talk that much, ridiculous things like girls aren't supposed to whistle. Whatever girls weren't supposed to do was very apparent to me from a really young age. So the lessons I was taught that there were rules about being a woman. There was expectations about being a woman and I had to fit that mold if I wanted to be.”

    2022-04-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Lilly Singh: My Deepest Insecurities Led To My Greatest Achievements · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I developed it during season one of the show. Is the struggle worth it? For me, yes, it is. I believe in what I believe so much more than the hurt that I feel.”

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  7. “I don't think the thing was good The community that I did this show for is pissed at me because I nervously made a joke out of context and that broke my heart every day.”

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  8. “I was born into the reality of being a disappointment right away. There were rules about being a woman. My mom did not grow up with queer culture. So for me to expect her to operate from a place of my lived experience, how was that math ever going to add up”

    2022-04-21 · The Diary of a CEO · Lilly Singh: My Deepest Insecurities Led To My Greatest Achievements · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT