Hello and welcome back to the clearer, not louder podcast.

My name is Beatrice and I'm your host.

And this week I'm really, really excited to talk about this concept of restraint as a form of power.

Restraint in the voice as a form of power.

Because what if saying less is saying more?

This week's episode is inspired by,

there's this first in the Proverbs that says,

fools are quick to express their anger,

but wise people are patient and control themselves.

There was a post I did a couple of weeks ago where I said you could tell someone off

and feed your ego or you could hold your poise and stick to your principles.

And I want to talk about that a little bit because how many times have you been in a situation

where someone is irritating you, pushing your buttons, not doing things the way you would do

them?

And you feel like you want to tell them about themselves.

Like let me just tell you about yourself.

Let me just tell you all the things that you're doing wrong because it's very obvious.

And clearly you don't know.

And clearly you need my help.

I can't be the only one that's ever felt this way.

I can't be the only one who's ever re-read text messages that I've sent to people like, no, no, no, I should have said

X, Y, and Z. I should have really told them about themselves. No, no, no. If I would have said

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