Welcome back to the show. You were listening to Style Your Minds. I'm your host,

Cara Allwell, and I'm excited that you guys have joined me again. So this is

gonna be a quick one. It's 8.15 in the morning here. I just had some coffee and

it was just something on my heart that I wanted to just jump on and share with

you guys because I think it's really, really important. So I've been having a

lot of conversations lately with men and women, you know, friends about how we

present ourselves in the world and how we show up specifically as women and

how men perceive the way we show up as women, specifically very successful

powerful women. And I've been dating as I've been talking about on the podcast

and meeting people and when I meet someone and they ask me what I do, I very,

you know, matter-of-factly share what I do and I explain that I've written

nine books and I've got a podcast and I've got this, you know, global women's

empowerment lifestyle brand. And I don't think that that comes across as too

much or, you know, intimidating, but I was having a conversation with one of my

guy friends a couple weeks ago and he's adores me and I adore him and we're very

close. And I said to him, you know, a lot of the conversations seem to get

weird with men when I explain what I do. Either they're super impressed and then

they kind of like back off or they just back off completely and they don't know

how to handle it. And he's like, you know what Karen, maybe you should just, you

know, not say nine books. Maybe you should just say that you wrote a book. And in

that moment, I was like, first of all, I had to pick my job off the floor that he

was actually saying this to me, but I immediately called him out. And I said,

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