Welcome to the Simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Good morning and welcome to the 95th episode of the simple

Sophisticate. I am really looking forward to sharing with you what I discovered in a book that

recently came out but her topic has been in the news and in the discussion of conversations for the last couple of years.

The book is called Presence and it's by Amy Kirti.

It's about bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges and is inspired by her

Uberly successful TED Talk in 2012.

And you may have seen, for example, the episode of Gray's anatomy, I believe it was last year,

when we have Amelia standing in her Superman pose.

And at the time I had heard, I'd read a few articles about it, but I actually hadn't watched the TED Talk yet, and then I watched the TED Talk.

Needless to say, our body has more influence over what our mind is thinking and she dives deep into this

concept so that's what we're going to dive into why not find your personal power

that will ultimately lead you to living your best life.

We're going to break it down.

We're going to talk about how you do that and what the benefits are.

But before I get to that big discussion, today's

putte pleasure is a film I've mentioned in the This and That's,

every Friday we have a this and that on the blog,

and I talk about various books and various movies that are just

coming out. Most of the items, I have never seen the whole film or the whole book. I'm just

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