Hello, I'm Gemma and welcome to Good Influence.

This is the podcast where each week you and I meet a guest

who will help us pay attention to something we should know about as well as answer some of your questions.

This week we're talking about boundaries, what they are, how they can help us, and how social media has helped us spotlight our need for them.

Joining me this week is Michelle Elman.

Michelle is a board certified life coach, author and podcaster. You may know her better by her online

handle Scard Not Scared. She's spoken extensively online about body positivity and representation,

as well as in her first book Am I Ugly, in which she explored her own journey from childhood illnesses and surgeries to a place of body confidence and acceptance.

Her second book, The Joy of Being Selfish, is out in 2021 and tackles the subject of boundaries,

something she often gives advice about in her weekly Instagram Q&As.

It's really exciting you've got a new podcast though.

I'm really excited about it, but I get so nervous doing new

things but then I keep seeing things online about over and over again post keep

popping up about like nobody's really good at something when they start doing it you just need to do it and then you get better at it.

Oh honestly watch my first YouTube videos or my Tiktocks and like all my friends were laughing at me they they were like, you're so cringe.

And I was like, just give me a year.

I'll be fine.

So before we get into talking about specifics, can you explain to us a bit about what

life coaching is and how did you get into coaching?

Yeah definitely so when I got into it five years ago

No one really understood what the word coach meant and they actually thought it was like a sports coach rather than an area of personal development and the best way to describe it is that life coaches are generally more holistic whereas everything like a psychologist or

a psychotherapist, that's very traditional psychology and as much as I

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