EP 267: From People-pleasing to Sharing Your Truth Without Fear with Guest Expert Amy Green Smith
Release Date: 11/28/2024
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info_outlineDo you struggle to speak up and say how you truly feel in difficult situations?
Staying silent or feeling a sense of fear about speaking up doesn’t allow you to show up as your authentic self.
While holding back your truth can help you feel accepted, it can also be damaging to your self-worth, hiding your authenticity when it matters most.
But there IS a way to stand in your truth without damaging your relationships.
Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Amy Green Smith. She is a certified life coach, speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Through her work, she helps people transform from people-pleasing to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-worth.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to shift from people-pleasing behaviors into speaking your truth with respect. You’ll hear boundary recipes that will help you overcome self-doubt and conquer the fear of rejection. You’ll learn how to find your voice and speak your truth through fearless, authentic communication.
Speaking up doesn't have to be confrontational. It’s possible to share difficult truths with grace.
What You’ll Learn:
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What we’re taught about acceptance (6:27)
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Looking to current relationships to heal past wounds (12:36)
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Determining when your fear is legitimate (21:49)
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What it looks like to be authentic in the moment (29:41)
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How to ask for what you need: a boundary recipe (38:31)
Favorite Quotes:
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“We often think our experience is just our own, but very rarely are we actually alone.” –Blake
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“When we're talking about finding our voice or speaking up, almost always antithetical to that, is that investment in what other people think- that people pleasing.” –Amy Green Smith
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“Your bullshit tolerance starts to get lower and lower once you realize, like, oh, I should not be spoken to in that way.” –Amy Green Smith
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“That's often why we end up as people-pleasers, because we see things differently than the people around us, and we're told that we are wrong or not okay, or we should be compliant. And as a result of that, we lose connection with our inner compass.” –Blake
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“People feel safer with you if they know where you stand and where they stand with you.” –Amy Green Smith
Additional Resources:
Connect with Amy Green Smith:
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