How can you respond when you get interrupted? Take it back!

Women are 2-3 times as likely to get interrupted and that is FRUSTRATING - or maybe a few steps past frustrating to angering.

Watch the video for two phrases I've found to be particularly helpful to redirect the conversation back to what you were saying so you can get heard!

A few weeks ago I was challenged by some successful speakers to look at how I was messaging my business - and I realized I reacted COMPLETELY differently to their feedback than I would have in the past.

When I first started my business (and for most of my corporate career as well), I took every single piece of feedback as verbatim truth, especially when it came from leaders and people I viewed as "experts."

This was the overachiever in me. Be better! Do it all! And do it all NOW!

I recently presented my keynote at a large conference for women in Engineering. I opened my keynote — Discover Your Authentic Voice - And How To Use It To Create Change — with a story about the feedback I received in my corporate career that I was too direct. Because of that feedback, I started to hold back the bold, fiery side of me. I questioned my voice and began to speak more cautiously. Not thoughtfully, cautiously.Which begs the question -- should I have ever listened to that feedback in the first place?!?

This is going to be fun! It's time to do some Marie Kondo-ing. And we're taking this way beyond your closet.

I invite you to think about how you can Marie Kondo your entire life. I've been doing this slowly over the past several years - and can I tell you how FREEING it is?

You can Marie Kondo your activities, decorations in your house, even relationships. It's okay to let go of things that are no longer you. Or that never were you - you only had them because of the "should" and "supposed-to" rules you've been taught.

You also get to ADD what DOES feel like you.

Just in the last few weeks I've had several conversations with women at different events and books clubs reading my book about setting boundaries and saying no. A lot of the discussions have focused on two big questions: Are you even allowed to say no at work? If so - HOW DO YOU DO IT?!?

Cyndi Lauper embodied a totally different kind of power than what we would traditionally define as powerful. She was powerful in her joy. In her light. In her FREEDOM.