“Start taking those little steps towards speaking up more in any situation. And even if you don't feel confident about doing it, it will build your confidence because you will start to get positive responses. It's one of those things that when you start doing it, you get immediate results, even if you mess up a little. You still have the chance to go back and remediate it, fix it. But if you don't speak up, you never get the chance to fix anything. And you're gonna be stuck in the same frustrations and problems and resentment that are only going to grow. This has nothing to do with shyness. This has nothing to do with introversion. Anybody can do this, we're born assertive. So let's get back to our normal state. So we can enjoy life and get people to treat us that we want to you want to be treated and get taken seriously and be respected and have some self-respect as well.”
Our guest today is Ivna Curi who studied electrical engineering but ended up working with analytics, most of her career in different areas. And one of the things that she soon came to realize was that she had no issues with logic and numbers and calculations, but struggled with the fact that she wasn't speaking up enough and in the right way. Luckily, in her first position as a people manager, she had a mentor who coached her on how to have these hard conversations. Ivna started to teach what she learned to her team and today she’s helping her clients speak up more assertively.
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