How much further would I be in my career if I wasn’t so self-conscious about how I look?

I cannot believe that I'm recording this video, but here goes anyway.

Hi, I'm Coach Jennie! I'm the coach for humans who have impatient ambition (like many of YOU) - people who’ve done some great things, but want more…and it’s just not happening fast enough.

I help you stop squandering your potential and take immediate action on their next big thing, so that you can get farther & faster than you ever thought possible.

https://www.coachjennie.com/ and @coachjennie on all the major socials. To kick the tires in my world, visit http://tackleyourfears.com/

Also, curious about that moment with @melrobbins ? You can see the segment here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3XFDeSm9fc - thank you @creativelive for making this video available here.

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Did you ever see the time where Mel Robbins -- yes, THAT Mel Robbins -- invited me onto a stage, literally yanked me onto a stage in front of the camera and thousands of people, and I told her about my half-brained idea to write a blog called "Diary of a Fat Life Coach?"

Yeah. That happened.

it was a powerful and amazing, and honestly, transformative moment up there with one of my personal heroes, one of my mentors that I've been looking up to forever, and I had this amazing coming out moment of like, I don't look like everybody else and everybody's accepting me. And it's okay. And it's great.

But do you know what happened immediately after that moment, after this amazing moment that we have on film forever?

One of the audience members came over to me and handed me his card, trying to sell me some MLMs milkshake.

The moment I had finally conquered my fear of being seen, really seen my whole body in front of thousands of people as Coach Jennie, as this expert, I was accosted by a diet-monger who felt the need to fix me.

Now I'd be remiss if I didn't also say that most of the people, the vast majority of the people in that audience came up and were so wonderful to me. I got tons of hugs and encouragement and not everybody was trying to feed me some kind of milkshake to make me thinner.

I also got tons of positive feedback about that moment from people all over the internet. In fact, I get this all the time. People see that video now and they see Mel pull me off of that tiny little stool and see how terrified I was.

And I have met some of the most amazing people because of that moment. In fact, that video is one of the reasons many of my favorite clients have even found me.

So I am forever grateful for that moment and I can't help, but deal with the fact that I should be over this. Given what I do, given that moment, all of these things, I should be over all the self-consciousness crap. Right?

By now, I should have found or invented some sort of coaching tool to get me out of this mindset forever.

But the truth is I'm not,

I've read the books. I've joined the clubs. I've been in the clubhouse rooms. I've watched the videos. I've looked high and low desperately looking for "the cure" that is going to make me stop worrying about what you think about my girth.

And yet it's always there.

It's just not realistic for me, at least not right now.

I've come to realize that the answer for me is to pick a different battle.

I have accepted that I am probably never going to stop feeling self-conscious in my own skin. And that's a terrifying thing to say out loud here on YouTube for the world to see when I am a life coach who is helping people get farther, faster and do really great things.

But it's true. And by accepting that I'm always going to have a part of me that's worried about that, I can shift my focus to a different battle altogether. In other words, I can accept that I'm always going to have these self-conscious thoughts and just let them come. They're not going to kill me.

The real battle is to stop letting that self-consciousness keep me from being visible.

You see, I'm done trying to be done with the worry. The worrying is with me for life and that's okay.

Society has etched that worry into my DNA and it kind of sucks, but it's also not the end of the world. So I'm moving forward.

What would suck and what would feel like the end of the world for me is if I don't ask for the opportunities that the skinnier Mel Robbinses of the world ask for themselves.

So that's me. It's your turn now, are you ready to pick a different battle?

Thank you for listening to this very raw video of mine. I, I'm not really sure who needs to hear this except me. And, if it's only for me then it was worth doing, but my gut tells me that there's somebody else out there that needs to hear it too. And if that's you, I appreciate you taking the time to listen.

Till next time, keep making it happen no matter what.

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