And this is another big tangly mess that we get involved in is feeling as though we are responsible

for everybody else's emotions and happiness.

And we're not.

I say all the time that putting everybody else first is poison masked as nobility.

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Hey everyone, you're on air with Ella,

and today my guest is the joy junkie Amy E. Smith. She's a confidence coach and a personal

empowerment expert, and I cannot wait to dig deep with Amy today. Hey, Amy, welcome to the show.

I have been looking forward to this all day. Well, I said that you were a confidence coach and a

personal empowerment expert, Amy, but what does that mean? What does that really mean?

Well, I think sort of the nucleus of what I do is I help people truly stand up for who they are

without being dicks about it, you know, without being awful, you know? And I think that's something

we're going to talk about a lot of the fallacy that so many of us are bought into about what it means if we are

forthright with our opinions and our thoughts. So my work is primarily twofold. It is looking at

that internal component, which we'll discuss today, like what is it about who we are that

makes us think our voice isn't valid or that we

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