Fake it with me
"Lily is going to be good too. I need to be better than good."
"What does better than good look like?" Sofia asked.
"Real," Ava said. "It looks real."
Sofia nodded slowly. "Then be real."
"I'm trying to figure out how to be real in front of four hundred people without it feeling like a performance of being real."
"That's the whole thing, isn't it," Sofia said. "The moment you perform authenticity it stops being authentic."
"Extremely unhelpful," Ava said. "Thank you."
"I'm just identifying the problem. You'll solve it. You always solve things."