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Today’s special guest is Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia, and she’s going to answer some questions around positivity, empathy, and tapping into your natural superpower.

Claude is an emotional optimist who believes that we all have the capacity to influence how we feel and how we think. And that even in our darkest times, we know that the light is actually always there.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

• How to start off your day
  
• Showing your natural superpower
  
• Finding your best learning style
  
• How to deal with confrontation
  
• The journey of knowing yourself
  
• Experiences that helped raise Claude's self-awareness
  

Episode Highlights:

How to Start Off Your Day

Your energy introduces you before you even open your mouth. And that's the first interaction someone has with you. So whether your energy is open or close, kind, humorous, or collaborative – that's how you start off your day.

The way you see someone is the way you will treat them. And the way you treat them is what they become. So if you see someone with a very kind face, they're going to treat you well. And other people are going to pick up on that as well.

Be the bigger person in different situations, whether that's holding the door open for someone or helping someone with their bags, or just asking someone how they are today – whatever that looks like, you're pouring good energy into others and into the world.

The action of empathy is kindness and compassion, which everyone has. And that's how you start to showcase your empathy with your actions of kindness and compassion.

How You Can Show Your Natural Superpower

Just be you and just show up as you. The world has changed in many ways. There's you on screen, there's you on social media, and there's you in real life. And the real you is what people will gravitate towards.

And if you are with other heart-based people that want to change this world and revolutionize the way we work, or bring whatever goodness it is to this universe, and to create places where people feel notice and love in this world and conjugate that into any way you all want to, just keep showing up as you because that will get recognized.

How to Deal with Confrontation

When someone is confronting you, realize that very little has to do with you. You can only own your version and your part of the story. And what anyone else is saying is coming from them and their own psychology. If you're hearing terrible stories about yourself, be able to shield yourself energetically because people come up to you with their own baggage.

The Journey of Knowing Yourself

People have no control over who you are. So you must know yourself and know your limits. And even if you don't know what the feeling is – whether you're sad, happy, tired, or whatever – just try to figure out and learn how to identify with your emotions. Knowing yourself is an endless journey, but that journey should have started yesterday, and if not, then today.

Resources Mentioned:

VaynerMedia