This is she's equipped with Jennifer Allwood, a podcast for Christian women in business who want to

earn more from their God-given talent, grow their impact, and lead with faith.

Well, hey there, friends. Welcome back to the podcast. This is she's equipped with myself,

Jennifer Alwood. We're going to be chatting today about over-explaining and especially over-expl explaining as it pertains to business,

to women who are in business, why we need to stop overexplying, what it actually signals

when you do that, my personal journey with over explaining, why it's still a work in progress

for me, et cetera. And so like before you're like, oh, I'm not an

over-explaner. Well, okay, let's just double check that, all right? Because like, have you ever

just caught yourself giving a five-minute explanation for something that honestly maybe needed,

you know, 30 seconds or, you know, feeling like you need to go into great detail. Like, if you tell somebody no, then you follow it up with, you know, I'm so sorry. I just have so much going on. And, uh, or you feel like, you know, I hate to do this, but do, do, do, do, do or I need to change something. And here's why. And so, um, you know, before you know it, you've, you've used a whole lot of words and you're trying to make sure, you know, that nobody's disappointed, that nobody misunderstands you and that nobody's thinking badly.

And so, you know, of you or your decisions or whatever.

And so this is what I want to talk about today because I've had a

couple things come up recently where I have been tempted to do some over explaining and I have

to go back to what I know, you know, is true based on my life coaching certification, based on

psychology, based on healing. Jason has been pointing out to me, you know, other areas that are not business related where I do still tend to over-explain things to people.

And then I had a client who was going to be changing some things in her business.

She no longer wanted to take like custom orders.

And she's like, do I need to put out an email?

Do I need to do a social

media post? Do I need to blah, blah, blah, blah. And in the past, I've had clients who have maybe

stepped away from social media for a period of time. And they're wondering if when they come back,

do they need to give an explanation? And so these are the sorts of examples that I'm talking about.

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