Have you ever walked into a room and felt it before you even said a word?

The shift in the air. The eyes that adjust. The silence that is not quite silence. And in that split second — before anyone speaks, before anyone moves — you have to make a decision that nobody prepared you for: do I make myself smaller so this room stays comfortable, or do I stand fully in who I am and dare the room to expand around me?

Most women have been in that room. And most women have, at some point, chosen to shrink. Not because they were weak. But because nobody ever told them they had another option.

In this episode of You Are You Unapologetically, Dr. Kim R. Grimes sits down with Barb Smith — founder of Journey Steel, a $5.8 million company with 25 employees, and Journeys Soaring Impact, a nonprofit creating pathways for inner-city youn ...