This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. Look away, look away, look away, I need me alone.

I'll call up thunder, hands of your big sky.

The Gun Club with Calling Up Thunder, a song about embracing your personal power, if there ever was one, because that is our topic today.

If you've caught recent episodes, you will notice that this is part of a larger theme. I've been talking a lot lately about feeling good about yourself,

feeling, self-confident, restoring your self-esteem because if you don't feel good about you

and if you are not advocating for yourself, no one else is going to.

Today's topic is really all about how to get more empowered at work and it requires some

pre-work to get into a place where you're feeling that level of confidence.

If you haven't yet a great starting point could be

to take my online self-esteem quiz, you can access that by texting the word esteem, E-E-S-T-E-M, to the number

55444-4. It'll give you an overview of where you are currently in terms of your personal levels of self-esteem

and it'll give you some directions of where to build yourself up so that you feel as good

about yourself as possible and ready to tackle the world, take on perhaps a boss who is not fully aware of the magnificence

of your power and abilities, and advocate for yourself in all different areas of your life,

including friendships, personal relationships, and more.

And thanks too for all of you that have been sending your questions and letting me know

what you'd like to hear more about.

Today's topic on feeling more empowered at work is a direct result of your advocating your

needs to me through our website at growingself.com by tracking me down on Instagram at Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

and of course Facebook at Dr. Lisa Bobby. So let's do this you guys. Let's talk about

empowerment at work. I think on some level we can all relate to the experience of feeling

disempowered, you know feeling like maybe we don't have influence or that our ideas or even our needs and rights are not being

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