From mouse to lion

Sarah Brown posed, the now evidently confident young woman Amrit, the question ‘how do you move from being a little mouse to a lion roaring on stage?’

Here’s what she said:

"I was part of a youth organisation called Envision. They came into my school and they were like 'let’s create a project where you pitch to a bunch of dragons' – not the real dragons obviously, but people who were willing to give us money for social change.

So we were doing this project in our school and I was still the quiet person at this point. Some of my friends were quite well spoken and they could really express their ideas really well. 

I had ideas, so I’d be the brains behind the stuff and I was like, 'we can do this, we can do that' but when it came to pitching, I was like, 'I think you guys can pitch this and I’ll like do all the art work.'

And I remember we were rehearsing it in school and they weren’t saying it right. I was just like, 'no, no, that’s not what I mean'. It was really frustrating and then I realised at that moment that if I want to say something that I can’t rely on other people to say that for me. I need to be the person saying it. I need to be the person with the microphone to express the ideas that I have. Because if I don’t say it, no one else will be able to express the ideas that I have. No one else is going to be able to say it better than I can even if I think I’m not that great."

Listen to the full interview here.