Show Up And Speak Up Confidently

Key Takeaways

Our CEO and Founder, Jessica Chen, recently hosted a Soulcast Media | LIVE event on LinkedIn, where she interviewed the Founder & CEO of Careercake and Career Coach, Aimee Bateman. They shared tips and personal stories about how to show up and speak up confidently. Here are the takeaways for VIP Comm Pass members:

• We need to have the courage to speak up and advocate for ourselves.
• When feeling unmotivated, we have to look inside ourselves rather than at others.
• There was probably a time in our career when we advocated for ourselves, and it didn't go very well. We were rejected, or the outcome wasn't what we had hoped for. This can cause us to fear advocating for ourselves. 
• No one can advocate for us better than we can advocate for ourselves. 
• When we talk about our work, we must first talk about why our work is beneficial for others.
• When advocating for ourselves, we need to ask ourselves, how will the business benefit?
• We have to give others reasons why they should care about what we want. 

• We can be scared, terrified, and confident all at the same time.
• Courage means using strategies to get the job done, even when we aren't confident.
• Confidence happens the more we do something because we become more comfortable doing it. 
• We have to humanize talking to senior leaders or people with impressive titles.
• Understanding people's intrinsic motivation is a powerful thing.
• Public speaking can help us build visibility. 
• We can use music strategically to help us build public speaking confidence.
• If we are nervous about speaking up in a meeting, the earlier we speak up, the better.
• Nobody will give us permission to speak up; we have to find the opportunity to do it. 
• In meetings, focus on the materials rather than the people. So when we are in the room, we are an expert on the material and aren't worried about who is in the room.
• The biggest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
• If we live by people's compliments, we will die by their criticism. 
• We have to ensure we are speaking our truth, not anyone else's. 

When we show up and speak up confidently, it can impact our lives. Being seen and heard in the workplace is critical for career success.

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