070: How to Let Go of Formality with Stacey Shipman
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070: How to Let Go of Formality with Stacey Shipman
Do you have the confidence to chase what you most desire?
So often, we’re conditioned by society’s rules to abandon our childhood dreams for more “traditional” paths. We opt for stability. We stick to the status quo. But in doing so, we put ourselves out of alignment with our true desires.
In this episode, chatting with speaker, facilitator, and podcast host Stacey Shipman about how she broke the mold, made a pivot, and became an entrepreneur to pursue her passions. She’s sharing her journey of leaving a job she was good at for a career she knew she’d love and how she learned to sell and network with confidence.
What you’ll find in this episode:
Why we struggle to show up authentically in our businesses
Making an aligned pivot, even if it means leaving something you’re good at
Rejecting formality and breaking the status quo if it doesn’t serve you
How to gain confidence and ease when talking about your offers
Why you should be networking in your industry and beyond
Aligning with your deepest desires and childhood dreams
Links from the Episode
Visit Stacey’s website EngageTheRoom.com
Subscribe to Stacey’s podcast, Shed the Formaily
Follow Stacey on Instagram
Connect with Stacey on LinkedIn, and send her a note saying I sent you!
About Stacey
Stacey Shipman is a speaker, facilitator and creator of Engage The Room, an unconventional marketing platform for analytically minded, corporately trained, shy or introverted business owners to remove formal protocols stifling their personalities and ideas.
Because you can’t advocate for yourself or your genius hiding behind: “I’m too busy,” perfectionism, data, PowerPoints, collaborators who get all the credit, or the belief you need more credentials.
Plus, human connection is impossible when you are acting like a robot.
Boring, bland and basic are default settings – but they aren’t the only settings. With Stacey's guidance, you can drop learned behavior that never felt natural in the first place, step out of the conventional bubble and engage clients, peers, prospects - anyone - with who you really are.
Quotes:
“Formalities weigh a ton. We learn so many beliefs, behaviors, our own experiences that we start to build up this weight of ways of being… that we have to get really strong if we want to shake that off.” - Stacey Shipman
“I don't have to teach it, but I can be a connector of resources to the people looking for them.” - Stacey Shipman
“When we break those [barriers] down and work from a place that really supports who we are, it feels easy. It may take work, but there's an ease that comes with it.” - Stacey Shipman
“The first thing is to be aware of the roadblock, aware of how it's impacting you. But also be aware of physically how it is showing up in your body.” - Stacey Shipman
“Entrepreneurship and being out on my own has been a giant experiment in exploration.” - Stacey Shipman
“You have to be willing to do the work to explore what's holding you back.” - Stacey Shipman