You Don’t Know the Lions That Taught Me How to Hunt
Why bold women move in silence and still take territory...
🦁 You Don’t Know the Lions That Taught Me How to Hunt
Why Bold Women Move in Silence (and Still Take Territory)
📍 A Boss Up Reflection on Boldness, Strategy, and Spirit-Led Power
🐾 The Reflection
Some people think boldness is loud. They think power has to roar. But the truth is — some of the most dangerous women I know are the ones who don’t announce their moves.
I didn’t get this quiet by accident. I got this quiet because I had to learn how to survive in noise. I had to learn how to read a room, sense intention, and move with precision.
Not all the lions who taught me were gentle, but every one of them was purposeful.
They didn’t come to coddle me. They came to prepare me.
That’s when I realized — this wasn’t just survival.
It was strategy.
🕊️ Legacy That Roars
🕊️ My Grandmother
🕊️ My Mother
🕊️ My Best Friend
🕊️ My Elder Mama
🕊️ My Good Friend
These were the lions who taught me how to hunt.
They led with love, sacrifice, protection, and spiritual strength —
…and I carry every lesson.
And to the ones who are still here —
The ones who cover me. Challenge me. Walk beside me.
You remind me to keep my head low and my discernment sharp.
Because female lions don’t just hunt. They feed the pride.
🧠 The Lesson
Boldness doesn’t always look like fire — sometimes it looks like focus.
It’s not about clapping back. It’s about knowing when to clap and when to close the door.
The people who underestimate you are loud because they don’t realize you’ve been trained by pressure. But we don’t need them to see it coming.
We need you to remember you were built for this, shaped in silence, and trusted with strategy.
This isn’t just a moment of survival. It’s a season of supernatural precision.
Let’s break it down.
🔍 Boss Up Breakdown
1. You are not crazy. You are being conditioned.
Those tight, painful, invisible lessons? That wasn’t punishment — that was preparation.
2. Stop trying to convince people to respect the strength they weren’t meant to recognize.
They won’t see you coming — and they don’t need to. Purpose will make the announcement.
3. Lions don’t teach survival. They teach strategy.
You didn’t just learn how to fight back. You learned how to take ground with grace.
✨ Reflection Questions
What “lions” has life used to teach you — not to destroy you, but to develop you?
Are you using your energy to prove yourself, or to position yourself?
Where are you being called to move forward with clarity, even if applause is absent — but your breakthrough is close?
🔦 Next Level Action
→ Journal your answers to the questions above.
→ Then write one sentence that starts with: “Because of what I’ve learned, I will…”
This is how you Boss Up: not just by surviving your story, but by shaping what comes next.
📖 Scripture Anchor
“Even the lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”
— Psalm 34:10 (NIV)
💬 Boss Up Affirmation
I thank God for the quiet lessons.
I see now that they weren’t setbacks — they were strategies.
I honor the ways I’ve grown, even when no one saw it.
I trust my next step.
I walk in vision.
I am laser-focused.
And I was built for this.
🎯 Call to Action
In the comments, share one thing you’ve survived that turned out to be training, not trauma.
Let’s remind each other — we’re not just survivors.
We’re strategic threats.
We’re rising on purpose.
And we’re not going back.
🔜 P.S. The next Boss Up post will go deeper into why we stop shrinking for false peace — stay tuned for “No More Dimming Your Power for Pseudo Peace.”
Covered by Grace. Fueled by Grit.
— Tavon J.