Lynn Smith

Because my belly stuck out.

And then when I tried to lose weight, don't get any smaller.

It was a constant critique on my appearance.

Very little feedback on my content, on my reporting, on my shows.

almost I would say 99% was on my appearance.

And so that inner critic was constantly eating away at me and I had to discover through a huge failure.

I bombed a keynote when I first left the business and I had to go through that lowest of the low moment to discover what I now teach, which is how to beat your brain bully.

because it is it's the root cause of what held me back in my career.

Even though you rattle off a lot of these great achievements, I was held back by my brain bully over and over and over again.

And now when I'm working with leaders of billion dollar companies,

I am brought in to help them to have a more magnetic presence and to articulate themselves in a clear way so that investors or employees or viewers are moved by them, not being like, wait, what did he or she mean?

And when I expose to them that it's that inner critic, they're like, oh, well, I'm not afraid.

And I'm like, no, no, no, because there's an ego piece here.

You know, executives tend to not want to admit to fear.

It's, yeah, but what's really going on in your mind when you watch this clip and you're stumbling and you're saying a lot?

And he or she will say to me like, oh, well, I'm worried about not getting all the data in or saying the wrong thing and stock price goes down.

I was like, fear, fear.

Or what if somebody doesn't like this?

Fear.

So I constantly sort of bring it back to, listen, that voice is running the show.