I’m sitting in a space right now where something has become painfully clear to me: The world isn’t always about helping you find your voice. Sometimes, it’s about learning how to shut it down. No — not the  world. People. I keep running into what I’ve started calling the shut-ter-downs . They shut down the conversation. Shut down the learning. Shut down the curiosity. Shut down anything that might stretch us, move us, change us. They make it acceptable to stay stuck. They nor