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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

Do you ever feel awkward or uncomfortable in meetings? Do you experience anxiousness or insecurity when called on or when you make an attempt to speak up?

And when you do choose to speak up,

do you wish you were received with more confidence and clarity?

Well, that is what I want to help you with here today.

How to command a room. Any room no matter who's in it and be

it a virtual or a physical room. This is especially important for women, particularly in typically male-dominated environments.

You'll notice the 80% plus of my team are women.

They are amazing, and getting them to step into their power, to own their presence and

use their voice, has taken work.

Why?

Because, face it or not, women are confronted with additional challenges, a phenomenon

called anticipatory pushback.

It is a tangle of social conditioning and psychologically learned responses that can hinder their presence

before they even speak. Anticipatory pushback is anticipating not being listened to, not being taken seriously, or being marginalized and disregarded.

And even if it doesn't happen, anticipating that reaction causes women to shift in their seat, have their voices go up in pitch,

and signal signs of underlying anxiety.

Oddly enough, becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy of the very thing they were fearing to begin with

but here is the empowering part awareness is the first step to changing this the The next step is preparedness. I'm going to give you

four suggestions here. Number one is be prepared. One of my not so secret secrets is I am always

prepared and I mean always I prepare for every encounter

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