I need to do something for myself, I need to do something for myself, I need to do something that I like and I need to be honest with myself about what I want.

So if you are nervous about something, you have to get confident and that confidence isn't just about saying affirmations.

It's really about being prepared and

trusting the preparedness that you've done.

Welcome to the Boss Bay Podcast, the place where we share with you the real behind the scenes of

building successful businesses, achieving people performance and learning how to bounce it all.

I'm Danielle Kante, co-founder and C.O. of Boss Babe and your host for this week's episode, where I actually had the pleasure of interviewing attorney turned entrepreneur Ashley Kirkwood. Now, Ashley and I have quite a lot in common and I'm sure a lot of you will relate to this because neither of us were born entrepreneurs and we actually both started our careers out with doing vocational degrees.

So mine was in chiropractic and Ashley's was obviously in law.

But in this episode we discussed how not only did we kind of find the courage, the mindset,

and the determination to make that transition from having a career into an

entrepreneurial world but we also kind of spoke about how we did that and the

detail around it and actually really shares with you guys how she leveraged speaking engagements to grow

her business which in my personal opinion is often a missed opportunity by so many.

For this episode I want to open it up with a quote.

It's not a Bossway one but it's one by the most

amazing woman, Oprah Winfrey. And the quote is this, speaking your truth is the most powerful

tool we all have. And I think so many of us actually shy away from speaking out

we shy away of speaking our truth we shy away from speaking up in front of people and

something I've really learned over the last couple of years is that speaking up, speaking on a stage,

it really doesn't have to be a scary thing and it's actually something that you can really learn to embrace.

So I hope you love this episode and I know Ashley and I would love for you to tag us and share

us with your favorite takeaways the bits that you've really gone and gone, oh yeah, that actually makes sense and I'm going to do something and change something

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