In session number 11 with Amy Cuddy, author of presence, bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges.

Here's what's coming up.

Yeah, you need to manage the impression that you make on yourself.

That's what you need to manage.

And you can manage that.

And if you manage that, then you are naturally presenting your real self to other people.

You know, people often refer to the research that psychologists do as

me search. You know, in actual interactions, you want to keep that good open posture, but not those

ridiculous over-the-top cowboy poses, you know, engaged and not trying to challenge people to a

duel or something. You know, how you carry your body is really affecting how you carry your mind and how you carry up your life.

Here we go.

Yo, what's up, y'all?

Welcome back to the sessions. I'm your host, Sean Croxton. Thank you so much for tuning in. Before we get started, I just want to apologize for missing last week's episode. Today's guest, Amy Cuddy. She was a little bit under the weather, so we decided to push back a week. So I didn't have any content for you. But Amy and I got together. We got the recording done this

week, and she rocked. You're going to learn a lot in this episode. She is the author of Presence,

bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges. And I highly recommend you go over to

YouTube and you check out her TED Talk. It's been viewed millions of times and changed all kinds of lives.

It's called Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are. She is a social psychologist. She is also an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Her website is Amy Cuddy and she totally rocks. Here's Amy.

Amy Cuddy, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me.

Thanks so much for being here. Thanks so much for writing your book. Thanks so much for doing your

TED Talk. Very influential on me. And I'm sure to those who read the book and also watched

the TED Talk, you crushed it. And I was able to make some changes to my own life personally

from reading your book. And actually, typically when I do a podcast or an interview, I'll read the book twice or three times to really get it in my head. And I was reading your book the second time. And I actually had to stop. And the reason I had to stop is because there was so much good stuff in there that I wanted

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