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Michelle Weinstein, AKA The Pitch Queen, is the host of Success Unfiltered, which features an array of unique and inspiring guests. She talks to all kinds of innovators and achievers, including multi seven and eight figure entrepreneurs, Shark Tank veterans, authors, performers, and investors.

Her guests share their most intimate stories, no holds barred. It’s the raw and vulnerable stuff that you don’t always hear about, like major rejections, epic failures, and unrelenting setbacks.
They share their most inspiring stories of overcoming adversity, never giving up, and achieving success beyond their wildest imaginations.

She created this podcast to help entrepreneurs realize that they are NOT alone. Everyone who has attempted something epic has had their share of setbacks, failures, and NOs. By sharing unfiltered stories from extraordinary individuals who overcame hardships and ultimately achieved their version of success, her hope is to inspire others to stay in the game and hold out for their own dreams.

Her mission and goal is to inspire rising entrepreneurs to break through barriers, overcome obstacles, and make a bigger impact in the world. It’s her passion to show people how to take action, own their value, and grow their top-line revenue. You CAN build a successful and flourishing business and make a global impact by doing what you love, and Success Unfiltered will inspire you ever step of the way!

https://www.thepitchqueen.com/podcast-success-unfiltered/

Sep 25, 2019

122 | Becky Blalock Shares How Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone Builds Confidence

When was the last time that you really stepped out of your comfort zone?

Becky Blalock is the author of the bestselling book DARE: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage, and Career and a trailblazer to the C-suite. Becky Blalock is a sought after speaker, IT thought leader and a champion of skill and relationship building to achieve success in the workplace. She is the Managing Partner at Advisory Capital, a consulting firm providing strategic insight for companies involved in the energy and information technology. During her 33-year career with Southern Company, Ms. Blalock held a variety of leadership positions before becoming SVP and CIO.

Ms. Blalock serves on several public company boards including Hannon Armstrong and Aspen Aerogels and as an advisor in several private equity ventures. She is also active on the Board of Counselors for The Carter Center and is a trustee of the Woodruff Arts.

If you want to get outside your comfort zone, it’s going to require that you stretch yourself!

I did a four month leadership training, and for one of our sessions, we went to a ropes course in the Los Angeles area. For one of the obstacles, we had to climb up a pole, and jump out front to catch the swinging trapeze. 

The pole was wobbling, and I could see all of Los Angeles when I was standing on top - let me tell you, that got me out of my comfort zone! I think my legs were even shaking uncontrollably.

But here’s the reality: when you stretch yourself, and push yourself outside of your comfort zone, anything that you attempt afterwards will be and feel easier. 

Any of the obstacles on that course was nowhere near as hard as it could have been, if I hadn’t already stretched myself outside of my comfort zone!

It’s important to remember that a NO or a rejection just means “not right now”, and it’s a valuable place for you to get feedback! That way, you can keep pushing yourself outside your comfort zone, and it will just keep getting easier!

This week’s guest on Success Unfiltered, Becky Blalock, had a similar experience - but she was pushed! She’s found, as she’s been in the corporate world, pitching her book, and working as an investor, that the more you push yourself outside of your comfort zone, the easier doing the hard things becomes!

If you’re ready to get outside your comfort zone, make sure that you tune into this episode of Success Unfiltered! You’ll be inspired to stretch yourself beyond your imagination!

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Special thanks goes out to Becky Blalock for taking the time to chat with Michelle. Be sure to join us next week for our next new episode!

Entrepreneurs, Do You TRULY Believe In YOU? You know that you have to believe in yourself. So tell me, have you done that yet? If you said NO, you’re not alone. The truth is that you are the most important asset your business has...but you’ve probably invested a lot more in strategies, websites, and leads than you have in serious self-love. That’s all about to change. Learn my 3 simple steps to shift your vibration, upgrade your mindset, and become your own biggest fan with my FREE guide, Believing In Yourself (For REAL This Time)! Don’t wait to give your business the solid foundation for success that it deserves--YOU!

Here are a few key secrets we talked about in this episode:

  • Michelle introduces Becky Blalock.
  • Becky had always had a successful career, so she decided that it was time to write a book, so that she could pass on the lessons she had learned to the next generation of women leaders.
  • People kept asking Becky, “aren’t you afraid that your book will fail?”
  • “You just have to believe in yourself sometimes and drown out the negative talk and surround yourself with people who believe in you.” ~ Becky Blalock
  • Becky got rejected eight times before she finally found a publisher!
  • That inner voice in your head will often tell you that you’re not good enough, but you have to learn to say YES I am good enough, and qualified enough!
  • “We are all so much more willing to take risk when we have people that are cheering us on and that believe in us.”  ~ Becky Blalock
  • Write down what you want: if you write it down, you are 68% more likely to achieve it!
  • “If you stay inside your comfort zone you're never really going to reach your full potential in life because you've got to push outside that and take those risks and learn hey, these things aren't killing me.”  ~ Becky Blalock
  • Every day, challenge yourself to step outside your comfort zone.
  • The most important part of a pitch where you hear NO is the feedback! It’s an opportunity to learn why they said NO.
  • “Competence is a very learnable skill and comes about by putting yourself out there and failing and learning what didn't work.”  ~ Becky Blalock
  • Becky shares her story about the time she jumped out of a simulated parachute training session - it pushed her outside of her comfort zone!
  • When Becky retired from her job, she expected to see many opportunities - but they didn’t come like she expected! So she had to go and create opportunities, many of them by volunteering with smaller organizations.
  • Becky was actually rejected from a job for having a southern accent: it was so demoralizing! When she was going through that, she had to remember to take her own advice, and work on continuing to build her confidence and stretch herself outside her comfort zone.
  • That hard work of volunteering with smaller organizations paid off, and she was able to join several Company boards.
  • With her book, Becky had publishers who were interested, but wanted to make edits - so many that Becky said NO - it would no longer be her voice!
  • She was able to find a compromise with the publishers, but learned that sometimes you have to put your foot down and say NO to them.
  • Becky shares a few tips on how to vet a potential angel investor.
  • “Reputation is everything.”  ~ Becky Blalock
  • Becky shares what she would tell her younger self.

Connect with Becky Blalock:

Entrepreneurs, Do You TRULY Believe In YOU? You know that you have to believe in yourself. So tell me, have you done that yet? If you said NO, you’re not alone. The truth is that you are the most important asset your business has...but you’ve probably invested a lot more in strategies, websites, and leads than you have in serious self-love. That’s all about to change. Learn my 3 simple steps to shift your vibration, upgrade your mindset, and become your own biggest fan with my FREE guide, Believing In Yourself (For REAL This Time)! Don’t wait to give your business the solid foundation for success that it deserves--YOU!


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