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Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad you're back here with me this week. Okay, so I wanted

to share a quick story about a woman that I do some coaching for. She's incredibly

successful. She is in corporate America. She's a senior vice president of one of the largest

companies in the US and rockstar, complete and total rockstar. But like most of us, she

has our moments where she needs someone to give her a hand and help pick her up and she

wants to run ideas against somebody else who's been in similar situations, which is super

smart. Completely get it. Well, this week I was very taken aback by a meeting that I had

with her. She sent me a text message and said, Hey, is there any chance we can meet this

week? We weren't supposed to meet this week. And I said, yeah, of course, you know, we'll

find time. We got on the calendar. Felt the time. And as soon as I got on the call with

her, she says, this is so dumb. And she kept saying that I know this is so dumb. But listen,

hey, listen, this is really dumb. This, I don't know what's going on. I'm being so dumb.

And before she could get anything else out of her mouth, they just stopped her and said,

first of all, whatever it is, it's not dumb. You're not dumb. You're one of the most successful,

smartest people I know. So let's fire that, right? The point that I want to make for you

right now is sometimes we don't even notice how we're speaking to ourselves or how we are

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