Brat McCay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

When it comes to how you're perceived in your professional life, it's likely you want

to be taken seriously.

I want your words to carry weight, you want to be influential and listen to regardless

of your position in a company, you want to carry yourself with gravitas.

My guest today is an organizational psychologist and executive coach who explains how to cultivate

this quality in her book, Authentic Gravitas, who stands out and why.

Her name is Rebecca Newton and we begin our conversation together by delving into the

trace that go into embodying gravitas, as well as the miss we have about this quality.

We discuss how gravitas doesn't necessarily include confidence, charisma, as well as

its false manifestations.

Rebecca then walks us through the steps to carrying yourself with gravitas and meetings

and presentation, including why you should script the beginning and end of your speeches

and how to put more gravitas into your voice and words.

We also discuss what to focus on when you're pulled into an impromptu conversation, how

to get real feedback about how you can improve the way you carry yourself and how to convey

gravitas and online communication.

We then discuss why practicing self-leadership is so important to developing gravitas, why

Rebecca thinks everyone needs to create a personal thought leadership window, and how

you can use your drive to and from work become more thoughtful and reflective.

When we enter conversation with the questions you should start asking yourself today to develop

more gravitas.

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