I’m convinced that in order to take the lead on what you are called to do in life, you have to be comfortable with the controversy and pushback it will create. Because it will come. Not only comfortable, but committed to whatever will come from your actions. You first have to have the controversy worked out in your own mind before you can articulate it to the world.
Further, the pressure and energy that will come against you on that level (sometimes even from those closest to you) will then give you the strength and power to step it up to the next level, challenge, and calling in life. The pushback and opposition ends up being the best thing for you.