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Coaching for Leaders

232: How to Tame Your Inner Critic, with Tara Mohr

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tara Mohr: Playing Big Tara Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being. She is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead*, named a best book of the year by Apple’s iBooks. Tara is the creator and teacher of the global Playing Big leadership program for women, and of the Playing Big Facilitators Training for coaches, therapists, managers, and mentors. Your worst critic is probably yourself. In this conversation, Tara joins Dave to show you how to tame your inner critic. Actions to overcome your inner critic Write down your inner critic’s most commonly voiced lines. Create a character that suits your inner critic’s voice, and then picture it when you hear the voice. Look at the voice with compassion, trying to understand what your safety instinct is afraid of. Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0

Well, I'm not sure about you, but the worst criticism I've ever received has been sadly from myself.

0:10.0

On today's show what all of us can do to better manage our own inner critics.

0:15.0

This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 232.

0:18.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. innovate learning, maximizing human potential.

0:25.6

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:31.6

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't

0:36.8

born, they're made. And this weekly show will give you access to the best thinkers, resources, and actions to develop your leadership

0:47.0

skills and I'm glad to have you back or perhaps joining us for the first time for a conversation today that is going to hit home for so many of us.

0:57.7

And if you've listened for any length of time to the show, you know that a big focus of my work in helping leaders is looking

1:06.4

internally in how we can be more effective in our own personal leadership and

1:12.0

the conversation that we're having with

1:13.5

ourselves. And one conversation that we all have with ourselves is the conversation

1:19.8

with our inner critic and that's why I'm really glad to be able to welcome today's

1:23.9

guest who has done a lot of work on helping leaders to start to manage their

1:30.4

inner critic and to not be bound by the things that her

1:34.4

inner critic is often telling us and that is Tara Moore.

1:37.9

Tara is an expert on women's leadership and well-being.

1:41.4

She helps women play bigger in sharing their voices and bringing

1:44.9

forward their ideas in work and life. And Tara is the creator of the Plain Big

1:50.1

Leadership Program and is the author of Playing Big, Practical Wisdom. Big a best book of the year by Apple's eye books.

2:02.8

She's attracted the attention of notable women

2:05.2

such as Maria Shriver, Jillian Michaels,

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