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Patty: Hey there. Patty DomÃnguez. Happy Friday. Episode 18 on a real talk episode I just wanted to drop some words of wisdom.
Yeah. I'm so wise.
For some the information that I've just been coming across when it comes to the clients that I work with and so I always think these Real Talk episodes are good and they just kind of come to me as topics come up in conversations that I have. And one of them was around the who am I conversation with who am I to do that. You know I've never done that before or very intimidated by so and so because they seem like they have their act together and I don't really I'm not at that level yet so I'm a little intimidated there.
These are conversations that come up and I'm sure at one point in time you may have felt the same I know I have felt the same even the the fact that I'm doing a podcast I would have never thought I could do a podcast say maybe 10 years ago.
And what I have found is that there is such authenticity to our real stories the real experiences that we go through as human beings and our experiences that really create a point of fascination. I love Jim Rowan and he is a business philosopher. Now remember one thing that I heard from him was that interested people want to know if it works and fascinated people want to know how it works. So the thing that makes an idea a person a topic a subject a book fascinating is when somebody wants it when they stop in their tracks and they say well that's interesting.
How do you how does that work. Tell me more. They've created a point of engagement with you and what's really fascinating to me is that for so long I would hide the things that made me what I believe is flawed. I would hide out because I was so ashamed of them because I was so not the same as everybody else around me. And this is what I mean is that I think about for yourself what is it that makes you fascinating. What is it that people are interested and really fascinated to say well wait a minute.
But tell me more about that. Think about those times those stories that you can share. Because here's the deal people are casually interested in maybe what it is that you do if they're casually interested. There's really limited value of exchange. But if people are fascinated by you there's the. Open Door in which you can create a real connection.
And that's a very powerful thing. So at that point they want to know more about you. They know what they want to know why you do what you do how you do what you do what is it that makes you take you know so that it requires a certain amount of disclosure on your part to share more about those things that maybe have had held you back in the past or maybe a mystery about your behavior or a process or the way that you think or the curiosity which you operate.
So for me the whole box or the mysterious things about my behavior is it has to do a lot with the background and I've noticed that when I share more about my background and certain clients maybe we have these conversations and how I grew up or certain things that in the past day I was so ashamed about just come from coming from a situation where I was physically abused as a kid and I stuttered so bad.
So bad growing up that I couldn't even say my name which is really crazy. And I used to hide situations I used to hide and speak in situations people told me that that I would be doing a podcast where I would be doing public speaking presentations. I would say there is no way and the thing is I diffused the things that held me back when I started putting it out there and...
