Coach Cherie Harris

26/10/2026

Your team notices the conversations you avoid.

When the same issue keeps coming up and nothing gets addressed, people start wondering what you’re willing to accept.

I understand the hesitation. You don’t want to upset someone or make the situation worse. So you wait—or quietly take on the work yourself.

But clear expectations and honest conversations help people know where they stand.

Start with what happened. Ask for their perspective. Agree on what needs to happen next.

You can hold someone accountable and still treat them with respect.

That’s how you become a leader people can trust when things get uncomfortable.

What makes a difficult conversation hardest for you: starting it or staying clear once it begins?

22/09/2026

Sometimes the hardest part of the conversation isn’t the other person.

It’s us.

We imagine everything that could go wrong. We worry about how we’ll sound. We search for the perfect words until fear convinces us to say nothing at all.

Tonight, we get out of our own way.

We’re going to find the right words, choose the right tone, and figure out how to start the conversation without apologizing, overexplaining, or backing down.

Bring one real conversation you need to have.

You don’t have to come polished. Come honest.

**Tonight, we fix it.**

The Authority Shift
Free Live Masterclass
Tonight at 7 PM Pacific on Zoom

Save your seat through the link in my bio or visit:
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21/09/2026

Stop it.

Stop rehearsing the conversation in the shower and never having it in the room.

You know exactly what you need to say to your boss. To the person who keeps talking over you. About the raise you've been "waiting for the right time" to ask for since January.

You're not confused. You're scared. And you've gotten really good at calling it "being professional."

Tuesday, September 22 at 7 PM Pacific. Free. Live. On Zoom.

Bring the one conversation you've been avoiding. We work it, live, together. No theory, no worksheet you'll never open again. The actual words, in your actual voice.

Save your seat: cal.com/the-authority-shift

Now go say the thing.

21/09/2026

Fear is the gatekeeper.

That voice that edits your words? The one that shrinks your thoughts? It's not protecting you—it's protecting them from the real you.

What would you say if you weren't afraid of the reaction?

13/09/2026

24/08/2026

Have you ever talked yourself out of sharing an idea and then watched someone else say almost the same thing?

Your words do not have to come out perfectly to matter.

Say the idea. You can always clarify it later.

If this is something you struggle with, my free Speak Up Starter Kit can help you practice. The link is in my bio.

Download Speak Up Starter Kit https://bit.ly/speak-up-guide

21/08/2026

The way you talk to yourself matters.

That voice in your head hears every “I can’t,” every “I’m not ready,” and every “I’m not good enough.”

But here’s the good news: you can change the conversation.

You don’t have to pretend everything is perfect. You just have to stop tearing yourself down while you’re trying to grow.

Speak to yourself with the same patience, encouragement, and grace you give everybody else.

Because you are listening. ❤️

What’s one thing you need to start saying differently to yourself?

19/08/2026

You know what to say. You're just not saying it.

You gave a whole TED talk in the shower this morning. You were awesome. You had comebacks. You were holding a loofah like a mic.

Here's the part that should bother you. It's not that you don't know what to say. It's that you're not saying it. Those are two completely different problems.

Before you walk into that hard conversation, say the first line out loud in the shower: "Can I schedule a few minutes to talk about what happened?"

Say it out loud. Feel it. Let it run through your body. Then go say it for real.

You've rehearsed enough. The words are already there. Go say the darn thing.

DM me the word CALL for a free Breakthrough Call.

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17/08/2026

Turn the sound on for this one. 🔊

This is my client realizing OUT LOUD how much she's changed. Leading meetings. Working across departments. Transforming, her word, not mine. And yes, I made her say it twice. 😄

This is why I do this work. Not for the strategies. For THIS moment, when a woman hears herself and realizes she's not the same person who started.

Your version of this moment exists. It's waiting on you. ✨

Free Speak Up Starter Kit, Download it here https://bit.ly/speak-up-guide

14/08/2026

I used to be the favorite boss. That was the problem.

Being liked feels good. Being respected changes everything. Too many leaders avoid hard conversations to keep the peace, and it costs them their strongest people.

This is the uncut version, everything that didn't fit in the short clip.
Inside my Speak Up & Stop Shrinking Workshop I teach the S.P.E.A.K. Method™ so you know exactly what to say, how to say it, and when.

DM me the word CALL for a free Breakthrough Call.

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