Not Everyone Deserves Your Authenticity with Megan Fuciarelli

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Beckty Mollenkamp and Faith Clarke sit down with Megan Fuciarelli, speaker and "authenticity amplifier," to talk about the flip side of a conversation we hear constantly: not how to be authentic, but how to actually receive someone else's authenticity when they show up as their full selves.

Megan shares her own story of being othered as a child, discovering at 15 that she was adopted, and how decades of people-pleasing and masking shaped the DEI and belonging work she does today. The conversation digs into the real difference between masking and cloaking a part of yourself, why "not everyone deserves your authenticity," the gap between intent and impact, why professionalism norms are rooted in racism and sexism, and how leaders and everyday people can hold space for identities and experiences different from their own without guilt, shame, or blame.

Timestamps:

00:15 — Welcome and introducing Megan Fuciarelli

05:55 — What repeated story has Megan been living lately?

08:16 — Bullied, never enough, and "closeted acceptance" as a kid

09:00 — Finding out at 15 that she was adopted

12:31 — Becky's own earliest memory of not feeling welcome

15:00 — How early wounding creates people-pleasing

16:59 — Imposter syndrome vs. "am I being who I actually am?"

17:13 — Not everyone deserves your authenticity (masking vs. cloaking)