When you look at people who are leading visions, they're leaders and people want to follow leaders.

But not all leaders lead the same.

Know that you can command certainty and authority, but have that be in a way that reflects your authentic personality.

Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more.

I'm Lindsay Schwartz, your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, and together

will unlock the confidence and clarity you are looking for to help you get out of your own way

and into action around your next big idea.

In today's episode, I'm going to give you some of my quick tips, things that I have had to change

about my communication style, things that will help you communicate with the world and share

your message with more certainty and authority and confidence. And this whole conversation

is actually inspired by a question that came straight from

one of you. And the place where I get so much inspiration for podcast episodes or free things

that we create for this community is our text list. And this is a place we created really kind of as like a text

mentorship list. I send out at least once a week, a quick little mindset or business tip.

I feel like most of them are more mindset because that's what it seems like everyone loves to hear.

And it's just a little note of encouragement to keep you going to help you take

that next bold step that you need to take this week to move your big vision forward. And when we do

our Q&A episodes, this is also where we get the questions that we answer. But once in a while,

there are questions that don't necessarily make it to a Q&A episode, but they inspire an entire

episode. And today's episode is one of those. So I got this awesome question from Sarah Ray,

and she's a fellow Midwest girl, grew up in the Midwest, something I can relate to because I did as

well. And what she asked is, and I'll give you the context,

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