Building Confidence and Finding Your Voice With the Author of 'Unlearning Silence', Elaine Lin Hering

Do you feel confident enough to speak up when it matters? In this Live Greatly podcast episode, Kristel Bauer sits down with Elaine Lin Hering, the Author of 'Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully".  Kristel and Elaine discuss how to find your voice in your personal and professional life, what prevents us from speaking up and steps you can take to unlearn silence today.  Tune in now! 

Key Takeaways From This Episode

• How to find your voice 
• A look into Elaine's book 'Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully'
• How to handle uncomfortable feelings that surface when you want to speak your mind
• Inspiration to show up authentically as you 

ABOUT ELAINE LIN HERING:

Elaine Lin Hering is a facilitator, speaker, and writer. She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. In her career, Elaine has worked on six continents and with a wide range of corporate, government, and nonprofit clients. She has trained mental health professionals, political officials, religious communities, and leaders at companies including American Express, Capital One, Google, Nike, Novartis, Shell, Pixar, and the Red Cross. Elaine is a former Managing Partner of Triad Consulting Group and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in dispute resolution, mediation, and negotiation.

ABOUT THE BOOK, UNLEARNING SILENCE: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully (Penguin Life; March 19, 2024):
Each of us has a unique gift to offer our community: our voice. But despite our distinct and valuable perspectives, many of us choose to stay silent. Family norms, workplace hierarchies, and biased cultures can make us think twice about expressing ourselves, sharing new ideas, and even speaking out when we know something is wrong. In UNLEARNING SILENCE: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully (Penguin Life; March 19, 2024), speaker and facilitator Elaine Lin Hering takes our culture of silence to task. This paradigm-shifting book explores how we’ve learned to be silent, how we’ve benefited from silence, how we’ve silenced other people, and how we might choose another way.

Throughout life, we’re often encouraged to just speak up! But it’s never that easy. Race, gender, sexuality, identity, and power are instrumental factors that decide who feels comfortable sharing their thoughts— and as many of us know, having a seat at the table doesn’t mean that your voice is actually welcome. Why speak up if you know that it won’t be received well, and in fact, often makes things worse?

Elaine Lin Hering has worked with mental health professionals, political officials, religious communities, and leaders at companies including American Express, Google, Nike, Pixar, and the Red Cross to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. In her work, she’s seen the pervasive influence of silence in many forms. Hering has developed strategies to recognize and unlearn unconscious patterns so we can make intentional choices about how we want to show up at home and at work. Her empowering, compassionate, and practical approach acknowledges that we’ve all been both silenced and silencers.

Connect with Elaine

• Website: https://elainelinhering.com/ 
• Buy Elaine's Book: https://elainelinhering.com/book/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elainelinhering/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elainelinhering/ 

About the Host of the Live Greatly podcast, Kristel Bauer:

Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness expert, popular keynote and TEDx speaker, and the host of top-rated podcast, “Live Greatly,” a show frequently ranked in the top 1% for self-improvement. Kristel is an Integrative Medicine Fellow & Physician Assistant with clinical experience in Integrative Psychiatry, giving her a unique perspective into optimizing mental well-being and attaining a mindset for more happiness and success in the workplace and beyond. Kristel decided to leave clinical practice in 2019 when she founded her wellness platform “Live Greatly” to share her message around well-being and success on a larger scale.  With a mission to support companies and individuals on their journeys for more happiness, success, and well-being, Kristel taps into her unique background in healthcare, business, and media, to provide invaluable insights into high power habits, leadership development, mental well-being, peak performance, resilience, sales, success, wellness at work, and a modern approach to work/life balance.

Kristel is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur and she is an influencer in the business and wellness space having been recognized as a Top 10 Social Media Influencer of 2021 in Forbes. A popular speaker on a variety of topics, Kristel has presented to groups at APMP, Bank of America, Commercial Metals Company, General Mills, Northwestern University, Mazda, Santander Bank and many more. She has been featured in Forbes, Forest & Bluff Magazine, Authority Magazine & Podcast Magazine, has contributed to CEOWORLD Magazine & Real Leaders Magazine, and has appeared on ABC 7 Chicago, WGN Daytime Chicago, Fox 4’s WDAF-TV’s Great Day KC and Ticker News. Kristel lives in the Chicago area with her husband and their 2 children.  She can be booked for speaking engagements worldwide.

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