Hey everyone it's your girl Breini Lee and welcome to the Pep Talk

podcast where we have real raw relatable conversations with the pep talk you need.

You have the power to create your future, the choices that you made today.

What do you bring to the table, baby I am the table?

Love yourself a little bit more than that ladies come on

dust settles Queens don't and don't forget know your worth and then attacks

period today we're talking about authenticity period. really and truly it is such a huge part of what makes me need.

What helps me to be able to express myself in the way that I do with what helps me to be

self-aware and really and truly is just at the core of who I am, what I do.

I try not to do anything that is inauthentic to me.

I don't go places that aren't authentic to me. I don't work with brands that aren't

authentic to me. I don't have friends that aren't authentic to me. The list goes on. So for me,

being authentic is about being honest with yourself about who you are, what you are and where you are and reflecting that out to the world.

It's about not compromising yourself just to fit in or faking it to be more acceptable to what people want from you.

So one way that I can describe authenticity in a really simple way is me not doing anything that doesn't feel good to me. Not going somewhere that doesn't

feel right to you, not agreeing to do something that doesn't feel right to you. And I feel like one of the people that

struggle with authenticity the most are people pleases.

But to be honest, I don't think people plan to be inauthentic, but I think we do underestimate

how easily we can be influenced in this world.

We live in the world, but we also live in a smaller world, which is called our world.

So our little world is constantly spinning and we're constantly being influenced by society, the

culture, media, friends, family, peers, your enemies, teachers, the music you listen to, the books that you read, and really

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