The Rules Are Being Rewritten. This Time, We Hold The Pen.
Rebellion, AI and visibility for the ones they underestimated.
One year ago today, I launched Glittersphere with a post that said: “2025 has bigger plans for you than that gym membership you’re considering.”
450 comments. 29,000 impressions. Women dropping ✨ emojis like confetti.
I promised a revolution. A space where brilliant women stop playing small.
Here’s what I didn’t tell you:
I wasn’t entirely sure I knew what I was doing.
I’d just helped launch Gemini at Google (then called Bard). The most exciting and terrifying leap of my career. And for AI.
But I walked away. Senior Director. Good money. Respected. All the things you’re supposed to want. And I left because I could feel myself shrinking. Performing a version of success that someone else had defined.
More than that: I’ve spent my whole career creating opportunities for all, not just the chosen few. And I couldn’t do that just from the inside anymore.
So I built things. Two businesses. Raised investment. Hired people (then painfully unhired when it wasn’t right). Learned tech I never thought I’d touch. Posted nearly every day for six months. More than doubled my LinkedIn following.
I was named the #1 marketing influencer. Made the Top 10 Trailblazers list. Met the King. Plotted AI ideas with Will.I.Am in Cannes. Did stand-up comedy at The Comedy Store. Danced on stages.
My DMs filled with women thanking me for saying out loud what they felt. The woman who messaged me from a Pret at 8am before a job interview to say I’d inspired her to show up as herself.
Sounds like success, right?
Here’s the part I masked:
I was approaching burnout. Doing too much and not enough of what I actually love. Lonely despite being surrounded by people. Running every day from the fear. Not of failure, but of not succeeding. Of the last two years of disruption not being worth it.
And the world shifted too.
A few weeks after that optimistic opening post, I went viral for a different reason: “What the Zuck?” My post about the DEI rollback that made my blood boil.
I was right to be angry. Look what happened:
87% to 50%.
That’s the collapse in companies prioritising women’s advancement since 2019. Not a dip. A freefall.
The UK’s biggest businesses slashed Pride posts by 92% in two years. Remote work flexibility? Scaled back. Sponsorship programmes? Quietly dismantled. Targeted development? Gone.
The companies that draped themselves in rainbows did the maths. Supporting the overlooked is now too risky.
This is the Corporate Commitment Recession.
And it’s hitting everyone who isn’t the default: women, LGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled professionals, the neurodivergent, the over-40s being quietly managed out.
Here’s the cruel irony:
AI could be the great equaliser. The thing that finally levels the playing field.
But AI adoption is already behind for women and those with less access. $400 billion is being poured into AI this year. Yet 40% of leaders have no AI strategy.
The biggest risk of 2026 isn’t uncertainty. It’s ignorance.
Good people waiting for permission. Waiting for the “right time.” Waiting for someone to tell them what to do.
Nobody’s coming to save you.
So I did the work. Quietly. Painfully. Honestly.
And somewhere in all the mess, it crystallised.
I help people and businesses become unmissable.
The invisible, overlooked, underestimated, misjudged. The ones playing by rules that were never written for them.
Not through another personal brand course. Not through playbooks and webinars you’ll abandon soon after.
Change doesn’t come just from a training course.
It takes rebellion. Audacity. Fuck-it energy. Badassery in sequins.
Three key principles:
Rebel Against Waiting.
The Fuck-It List™️. Defiant action over delayed dreams.
Rebel With AI.
Master the tools. Compete without permission.
Rebel Into Visibility.
Human resonance is the only differentiator left.
This is the Reinvention Rebellion.
And this Substack, Nishma Unfiltered, is where it lives.
I’ll share what I’m learning, building, failing at, and figuring out.
The AI tools that actually work.
The visibility and marketing strategies from my Google years.
The Fuck-It List™️ methodology that got me here.
The honest mess of building something new in midlife.
No polish. No pretending I have it all figured out. Just me, thinking out loud, with you.
The rules are being rewritten. This time, we hold the pen.
If you’re done waiting for permission. If you’re ready to stop playing small. If you want to become unmissable. Not someday, but now.
Subscribe. Join the rebellion.
And if you want the full toolkit (AI tutorials, the Fuck-It List framework, community access, live sessions) the paid tier is where that lives.
But honestly? Just being here is enough to start.
Let’s go.
Nishma x
P.S. To everyone who dropped a ✨ one year ago: thank you. Your belief in me has been the water to my roots. This one’s for you.
#ReinventionRebellion