Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Some of you may know that part of my work, part of the work I love to do is helping people improve their visibility,

largely by being in large media outlets, allowing themselves to be seen, heard, giving your voice essentially

a microphone so that you can make a bigger impact in this world with the very special and

unique contribution that you are here to make.

And the reason I wanted to bring this topic up today in an episode is because one message, one thought, one fear, one, one, one perceived reality that's holding a lot of people back from making that big delicious

contribution, showing up and serving in a bigger way, living authentically in your very powerful truth,

is the fear of criticism, right, the fear of being rejected, shut down, laughed at, judged,

whatever it may be that keeps us wanting to play small when we know at some core soul deep level we know that

that's not why we're here we know that we're not here to fear judgment and as a

result do less and as a result just take a little piece of the pie

when the entire pie is available because there are unlimited pies in this abundant universe. If you ever hold yourself back, if you ever think, oh, you know, I'll go for it later,

or there'll be a time in the future when I'm more ready.

My question for you today is this.

How is holding yourself back helping anyone?

Truly. How is you holding yourself back helping anyone?

Least of all, how is it helping you?

And that's a real question.

I wrote this piece for Oprah magazine a while ago talking about shyness, right?

Shiness in situational environments, meaning in different new environments, often when we're

around new people or putting ourselves out there in a bigger way,

shyness is in fact ego. Because your ego wants to protect you from anyone not liking you, anyone disagreeing with you.

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