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 – Your First Step to Speaking Up More

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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18 February 2021

When I work with women to help them grow their businesses and build strong connection networks, Speaking Up is an essential key move I help them to master.

Until we can get some mastery over our ability to speak up, we can fail to meet our true potential in sales, fame, the impact we have and our ultimate success.

It takes speaking up to reach more people, to make more of an impact, and to get more results.

If you want to make a dent in the world, you need to be willing to be seen AND HEARD.

But that can be tough.

Speaking up can make us feel vulnerable.

We worry that someone won’t like us.

Or that we’ll get criticised.

This reluctance to speak impacts most people, but in particular women. Even hugely successful women.

And that’s because a couple of things can happen when we decide to speak up in a more significant way than before.

Say you’re now you wan to do Facebook Lives, or speak on stages, or create a podcast, or run an online challenge and you’re looking to go from where you are NOW to play a BIGGER GAME game.

Firstly, you may feel a case of Imposter Syndrome, that feeling of ‘who do you think you are?’ and that you may get found out as being a fraud.

The second thing that can happen is that what can show up is what author Steven Pressfield calls Resistance, which is that voice that says:

“Stay safe. Stay small. You might get hurt if you reach too high. If you step out and speak up too much, you don’t know what might happen.”

Asking for higher prices, asking for the sale, leaning into opportunities – all that requires you to get past this Resistance and to speak up.

So, what do you do? How do you start Speaking Up more?

In this episode, I share a powerful place to START speaking up more effectively.

Take listen.

I’ll be diving deeper into this topic at the Get New Clients Coaching Week from 8 – 14 March.

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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