985: Boosting Confidence and Slashing Anxiety through Great Boundaries with Abby Medcalf

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Abby Medcalf discusses how to set firm boundaries and keep negativity from ruining your day.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What most people get wrong about boundaries

2) How to stop others from hijacking your mood

3) A trick for dealing with people who are nasty to you

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— ABOUT ABBY —

Abby Medcalf is a Relationship Maven, psychologist, author, podcast host and Tedx speaker who has helped thousands of people think differently so they can create connection, ease and joy in their relationships (especially the one with yourself)! With her unique background in both business and counseling, she brings a fresh, effective perspective to life’s struggles using humor, research and her direct, no-nonsense style.

With over 35 years of experience, Abby is a recognized authority and sought-after speaker at organizations such as Google, Apple, AT&T, Kaiser, PG&E, American Airlines and Chevron. She’s been a featured expert on CBS and ABC news, and has been a contributor to the New York Times, Women’s Health, Psychology Today, Well+Good and Bustle.

She’s the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book, “Be Happily Married, Even if Your Partner Won’t Do a Thing,” as well as the newly released Boundaries Made Easy, and the host of the top-rated “Relationships Made Easy” Podcast now in over 170 countries.

• Book: Boundaries Made Easy: Your Roadmap to Connection, Ease and Joy

• Website: AbbyMedcalf.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy Wilson

• Book: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded by Maxwell Maltz

• Previous episode: 159: Increasing Confidence by Increasing Self-Awareness with Dr. Tasha Eurich

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0:00.0	As I work with people putting out boundaries and holding them is that they get promotions, they leave jobs and get better ones, they save their
0:16.4	relationships in different ways and their personal lives, I mean your life will become
0:19.8	exponentially better once you learn to have them and to hold them.
0:23.8	It's truly the answer to a lot of what you've been looking for.
0:27.4	It's a huge issue.
0:28.2	This people pleasing, wanting others to like us,
0:30.9	and thinking that being nice means not having boundaries and that it's mean to have
0:36.4	boundaries and that's the big lie that wrong faulty belief, faulty logic that people are working from and we have to shift that.
0:44.7	That's Abby Medcalf.
0:51.1	She's a psychologist, author, and speaker with over 35 years of experience helping others create connection, ease and joy in their relationships.
0:59.0	For the last 15 years, her focus has been on boundaries, and she's going to enlighten us.
1:03.3	Specifically you'll learn one what most people get wrong about boundaries.
1:07.3	Two, how to stop others from hijacking your mood and three a trick for
1:11.4	dealing with people who are nasty to you.
1:13.0	I'm Pete McKitis. This is how to be awesome at your job.
1:15.9	And now, here's Abby.
1:21.6	Abby, welcome.
1:22.8	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:24.0	I'm excited to be here.
1:25.6	Well, I'm excited to hear some insights on boundaries.
1:29.5	Could you kick us off with a particularly surprising, shocking, stunning discovery you've made about boundaries that really dazzles people.
1:39.0	No pressure, Abby.
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