I Am Enough : Be Empowered and Banish Fear

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This week, Voices.com is pleased to present Nancy Wolfson.
Nancy Wolfson: Today’s way of (attacking announcer) and it has to do with attacking that fear voice from the back of your head that had been saying you’re not good enough. And that maybe there’s somebody who’s found that’s nicer than yours or whatever.
I have to credit my friend, Richard with helping bring this to so many people. You know, it’s this whole notion of “I’m enough”. Training and good course of study really helps you feel this if you can’t pretend your way into it because sometimes really diligent people really need to feel like they’ve earned being enough and so not only is there substance in the course of study but really diligent people oftentimes feel that they’re only enough when they’ve really done their homework and they’re not comfortable being fakers.
So it is on going to a proper course of study and accomplishing that, sometimes empowers people who really respect academic pursuits to credit themselves with feeling like they’re enough. But I would if I could tell your fear voice could get out of there because you are enough. It’s more than a pep talk. Although, you know, as long as you’re in a state or a process of acting here, anyway, I mean, whether you’re acting as a narrator or as the person on the spot, you might have well pretend to act as if you feel confident. That man couldn’t hurt but it’s more than just a pep talk. It’s actually also logical and it comes back to branding.
You see, if you change your branding to be as cool as you think somebody else sounds, that insecurity bleeds through. But also, what if they would have liked your true sound? You know, what a missed opportunity that would have been. It’s you and you have to be the one who can do you the best. Nobody else can bring your styling, your sound to the party as well as you can.
So why move the target? You have to stay authentic and when you’re being authentic, you have to pretend to feel confident about that without worrying that you’re not enough or that somebody else’s sound or style might be more interesting than yours and you’ve done your homework, you’ve deconstructed the copy, you’ve asked yourself the questions that you know you need to ask yourself in the flow chart of deconstructing the script.
Get some game on and bring some confidence to the party.
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