Ep 5. Be Assertive… Because Erica Said So
Not Another Anxiety Show
Kelli Walker
4.8 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Kelli and Erica talk about how being assertive can actually help reduce feelings of anxiety. We’ll talk about what being assertive looks like (many of us mistake it for aggressiveness) and how to start fostering it (disclaimer: it can feel a little awkward at first).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys. Welcome to Episode 5 of Not Another Anxiety Show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker. And today we're going to talk about assertiveness and what it has to do with anxiety. |
| 0:22.6 | I have the ever-lovely Erica from the babybroad.com joining me today. |
| 0:26.9 | Good morning, Erica. |
| 0:28.4 | Hey. |
| 0:30.2 | So how do you feel about talking assertiveness today? |
| 0:32.7 | I don't want to talk about it. |
| 0:35.5 | See, that's a good example of aggressiveness. |
| 0:40.9 | Not to be confused with assertiveness, right? |
| 0:44.2 | It's just meanness. |
| 0:45.8 | I know. |
| 0:46.3 | That's just cruel. |
| 0:47.7 | That's just cruel. |
| 0:49.5 | This is such a great topic. |
| 0:51.0 | And it's, I mean, everybody suffers this at one point in their |
| 0:55.9 | lives. I would say a lot of women suffer this, especially professionally. I'm super pumped. |
| 1:02.5 | So pumped to talk about this. To talk assertiveness. Yeah. So what is it? A lot of us kind of, |
| 1:09.1 | kind of just, I mean, being a little facetious, but a second ago, your example, right? A lot of us kind of just, I mean, being a little facetious, but a second ago, |
| 1:12.9 | your example, right? A lot of us kind of confuse assertiveness for aggressiveness. We look at them |
| 1:18.6 | as one and the same, but really assertiveness is just confidently and calmly speaking your mind. |
| 1:25.3 | That's it. That's simple. And I don't know how good you are at this, Erica, |
| 1:29.6 | but I know for me, there's still room for improvement because sometimes, just sometimes, |
| 1:34.0 | I still hide in the hallway when a salesman rings my doorbell to avoid having to say no thank you |
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