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Today's question comes from Victoria, and Victoria Rights.

Hi Marie, I'm wondering whether you have some tips for self-promotion

How to go about speaking well of your brand and letting the passion shine through how not to be afraid to blow your own trumpet. You seem much better at this in

the US than we are here in Australia. I always feel self-conscious and nervous

when I try to promote my own business like I'm bragging.

Please help. Thanks Victoria.

Great question Victoria and I hear this all the time.

You know, you often hear the term shameless self-promotion as though there should be shame in

self-promotion. I think it's important that we slow down and really ask ourselves

this question. Where did we learn that self-promotion is bad and more importantly

why do we accept that as the truth? As intelligent thinking human beings, why is speaking about something that we do or have done a bad

thing and why do we equate expressing joy or confidence or pride about our work with something we should feel shame for.

It's just crazy.

I have a completely different point of view on this.

In fact, I think you should feel ashamed if you don't promote yourself. Point is, if you do something great, I want to know about it.

So here are three reframes to help you get a little more comfortable tooting your own horn.

And the first one is, focus on what you can give versus what you can get.

So I say this every single week, right? The world needs that special gift that only you have,

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