Assimilation or resistance? For many Black women and visionaries of color, navigating professional spaces means carrying the tension between altering yourself to gain access and refusing to bend to protect your truth. In this article, Destiny Muse unpacks the costs of both, the wisdom she’s gained balancing them, and how she’s created a model of adaptive integrity—honoring her identity while moving fluidly between high-end client spaces and community spaces.

And maybe that’s what liberation really is—not outrunning the human condition, but embodying it fully. Not choosing either/or, but finding the wholeness in both/and.

This glow-up isn’t just about business. It’s about becoming the kind of woman who no longer performs to be loved. It’s about rooting into a level of integrity so deep, the right people can’t help but rise to meet it.