EP 231: Influence is Your Superpower with Guest Expert Zoe Chance

The Bridge to Fulfillment

Do you wish that your perspective, opinion, and your voice carried more power?

The feeling that your words lack influence is common among women, and the long-term effects of this feeling of powerlessness can greatly influence your path in life.

Digging deeper into where this feeling comes from is an important step toward harnessing your ability to speak up and gain greater control over your life.

You can reclaim your voice and turn it into your superpower!

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake Schofield welcomes Zoe Chance. She’s a writer, teacher, researcher, and climate philanthropist. She has an MBA from USC, a doctorate from Harvard, and teaches the most popular course at Yale School of Management. Her bestselling book is called Influence Is Your Superpower.

In this episode, you’ll understand the deeper roots of confidence and hear the real reason why you might be lacking the influence you wish you had. You’ll learn a mindset trick to help you get more comfortable with rejection, paving the way toward rebuilding confidence and learning resilience. You’ll also learn how to start building your influence superpower.

What You’ll Learn:

• Recognizing the real reasons why you might lack influence (4:43)

• Why shyness is really a reaction to trauma (9:31)

• Proof that you’re better liked than you think you are (18:38)

• The keys to building your capacity for influence (24:54)

• Why women bear the cultural burden of saying “yes” (28:58)

Favorite Quotes:

1. I literally believed when I was a child that my voice was the same frequency as the ambient sounds of the universe, and that's why people talked over me when I spoke. –Zoe Chance

2. Perfectionism and shyness are actually responses to trauma. They’re responses to things that happen in our childhood that lead us to believe it's unsafe to speak or it's unsafe to make mistakes. –Blake

3. To truly come into your greatest potential value and purpose, you have to strip away the things that you're conditioned into and the belief systems that formed the trauma. And when you do that, you can come back to the wholeness of who you always were. –Blake

4. Being able to speak and be listened to is something that sounds so small, and it's simple, but it's much more profoundly impactful than a lot of people recognize. –Zoe Chance

5. The first person who comes to our mind when we need something is much more likely to be a woman than a man… so there's all this male generosity that is potentially being wasted. And there's all this female burnout that is unnecessary. –Zoe Chance

Additional Resources:

Connect with Zoe Chance:

www.zoechance.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoebchance

https://twitter.com/zoebchance

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