Erin McGoff

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84 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard May 2025

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The Jefferson Fisher Podcast · Erin McGoff: How to be Instantly More Confident at Work · 13 May 2025 podcast

Jefferson, thank you so much for having me. It's so great to get to talk in person after exchanging so many DMs.

Oh my gosh, congratulations to you. Your book is fantastic. It's on my bookshelf. And I have to say real quick, my mom is your biggest fan ever. And she loves your content so much. So shout out to mom.

Claire. She's the one from Texas from the Panhandle.

Oh, so important. The way that you communicate with yourself is the most important person you will ever communicate with is yourself. I always say like my key to confidence is just being your own best friend, you know, talking to yourself the way that you would talk to a best friend. So, you know, if I look in the mirror and I hear that thought of, oh, I don't look very good today.

I imagine if my friend was saying that and what I would say to her and I'd be like, you're ridiculous. Like, it's OK. Just go take a shower. You know, so I like to keep it real with myself, but also give myself so much empathy and compassion because we're oftentimes our worst critics. So be your own best friend. I'm my own best friend.

Yeah, I probably sound a little bit crazy. But yeah, I mean, after a while, it just became a habit. Like, you look in the mirror or, you know, you hear those critical thoughts of yourself where, oh, I sounded bad in that meeting. Oh, those people didn't like me. And then you just respond to yourself and you're like... those people probably liked you.

There's no indicator that they didn't like you. And then after a while, that just becomes one singular voice. I know it sounds kind of split personality-ish, but I truly, I noticed it the other day. I'm like, wow, I'm actually really kind to myself. I keep it real. You can't just be worshiping yourself all the time.

You have to keep it real with yourself, but you would keep it real with a best friend. You don't just worship a best friend and constantly... you know, boost them up and up and up, but you need to be real with them sometimes. So that's why I like that kind of saying, be your own best friend.

Get your butt to the gym, yeah.

I am, yeah.

Oh, that's so funny. Yeah, I'm the youngest of six. We're all about two and a half years apart. So there's like a 12 year gap between me and the oldest sibling.

That's a great question. I think I'm a typical youngest child. You have to learn how to get a word in. And that's why I think I speak so quickly is because, and have a sense of humor. A lot of youngest children have a sense of humor because we're just trying to get our word in and trying to get attention.

So I definitely learned how to like think really quick on my feet, be pithy and concise because it's, You're trying to just get a word in. And to be fair, my parents were really good about giving everybody equal attention and time and being very fair about things. But yeah, you definitely learn how to be very quick on your feet.

Yeah. Oh, definitely. And yeah, being the youngest, you're always talked down to as well, especially of six, you know, it's the bottom of eight people. And so everybody's always talking down to you. So you really learn how to kind of like manage up from a young age and like talk up to people. And it was definitely always challenging. treated older than I was, I think.

So people always told me I was mature for my age. So yeah, I would say very, very much affected me in a positive way growing up in that big, big tribe. But yeah, I definitely don't want to have six kids. I don't know how anybody can manage that this day and age, but they do.

So, so many different places. I mean, every morning I listen to business podcasts, I read studies and research, but I also just talk to people. Every single day in my DMs, I'm conversing with recruiters, business owners, and especially job seekers. And I just like to be like kind of a boots on the ground person listening.

And then when it comes to all the advice that I share, it's truly just wisdom that I've stolen from so many people in my life. You know, I listen to TED Talks, but I also just will like give advice that I heard from my dad or from, you know, my aunt or something like that. So it's truly just a mosaic. And I basically just look to some of the wisest minds in the world.

I listen to what I hear repeated over and over again. And then the cherry on top is kind of what I've experienced in my own life. I don't really give advice from personal experience. I more like to research a variety of sources and then kind of boil it down and then put my personal experience kind of as a cherry on top.

So I run a lot of my content like through friends who work in different industries and stuff like that. So, yeah, it's really my content's a lot more researched, I think, than people realize.

Yeah. I mean, at the end of the day, like we're both giving subjective advice, you know? So you might say one thing, another career expert might say another thing. So yeah, like as much as I like to pretend it's objective and research-based, like at the end of the day, it really is just subjective.

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