Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

Let me find out if you've had this experience.

You are preparing to talk to a large group of people who you're nervous about and you start

to imagine yourself getting up in front of this group and you start to feel insecure, a little bit self-conscious, what are

you going to say, what if you say the wrong thing, what if people laugh at you or think you're

stupid, just put yourself in that scenario for a moment. Just imagine yourself getting ready to give a talk

to your office in the consultation room

or maybe a big crowd giving a speech or a talk on stage.

Or even people you just have to address that you're nervous you're going to say the wrong thing.

Just put yourself in that position for a moment and realize how much maybe fear, anxiety, restriction

you feel viscerally in your body and your heart and your mind. What are you feeling in that moment?

Maybe your mind has gone blink and can't remember what you were supposed to say at all.

I think 100% of us, if we've ever been in front of a group of people,

or even just one person that makes us feel this way,

our mind goes blank and we have no ability to say what we planned or is natural to us or is authentic to us.

So today we're continuing our series from the book The Tools by Phil Stutz and Barry

Michael's great book recommend you pick up a copy. In the last two episodes we went over the first two tools in their book and now we're on tool number three

We're gonna talk about that on today's show how to deal with this idea of showing up somewhere

Having to give your voice to something and you feeling

fear or a pullback from that experience. How do you deal with that in your life?

This tool is called Inner authority and the higher force that it pulls on is the force of self-expression.

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