Sometimes we override our own power with silent communication. This can look like... Nervous smiling Rushing the end of sentences Excessive movement (this is the one I have the most trouble with) Entering conversations late Soft openings Check out our new video that goes deeper into how to shift these behaviors to add more weight to your words and your presence.

Hi, community! I am Rachel Davis and glad to be here. I want to be a grounded and connected person and my communication skills have never been trained. I speak in big rooms with confidence and I am also a mom who wants to be softer. Already I am learning a lot about myself and glad I am not alone in these behaviors. I crave growth for myself, my career and -of course-mostly my babies. I need to work on my tone and I look forward to growing my awareness. I can't thank you enough @Genesis Be 🙏

Good morning, MCs! For most of my life, I had a lot to say, and no idea how to say it. I was the kid who felt everything deeply but couldn't get it out in a way that made people stop and listen. I'd leave conversations feeling invisible. Not because I didn't have anything to offer — but because I hadn't yet learned how to express what was inside me. It wasn't until I found rap, poetry, and painting that something unlocked. Those art forms taught me that expression is a skill. And like any skill, it can be learned, practiced, and owned. This video is for anyone who's ever felt overlooked, unheard, or invisible in a room. You're not invisible. You're just underexpressed. And that changes today. Drop a comment and let me know — what's your outlet? How do you express yourself best?

- Talking over people - Rambling - Speaking in a condescending tone - Always needing to be right These are all things that I've done at some point in my life. What about you? It wasn't because I was a bad person, but because we are ALL taught communication habits within our households and communities. Some of those habits actually stifle connection rather than build it. Not many of us take the time or self-awareness to really develop better communication styles or seek tools to help us break the pattern. Here are some poor communication habits that could be pushing people away, and how to fix them through repetition. Which one resonates with you or someone you love?

I've been on stages for over 20 years. And I want to be honest with you about something, it was not a straight climb upward. There were big wins, yes. But there were also very public failures. Bouts of real shame. Moments where I missed the mark badly enough that I had to sit quietly with a question I didn't want to answer: Am I actually built for this? I want to talk about that question specifically, because I think if you're wired the way I'm wired... observant, internal, introverted, someone who processes deeply and feels things more than you let on, failure doesn't just sting. It tends to confirm a story you've already been quietly telling yourself. That you're not quite enough. The people who make it look effortless must have something you don't. Maybe you should have waited until you were more ready. That shame spiral is a particular kind of trap for people like us. Because we're already doing more internal work than most people realize, and when something goes wrong in public, it doesn't just sit on the surface. It goes deep. It gets absorbed. And it can stay there for a long time if you don't know how to work with it. Here's what I eventually learned...not from a book, but from actually failing repeatedly on stages, in front of people, and having to figure out how to come back. Failure, when you don't let it finish you, strips your ego down to something more useful. It teaches you how to listen without defending yourself. How to take feedback without collapsing or shutting down. How to look at what went wrong with enough honesty to actually fix it. That capacity... to stay open when everything in you wants to contract... that became the foundation of what I now call magnetic confidence. And I want to be clear about what I mean by that, because it's different from what most people teach. Magnetic confidence is not the belief that you won't fail. It's not performing certainty you don't feel. It's not telling yourself you're the best in the room. For people who are quiet by nature, that kind of performed confidence doesn't just feel fake — it feels like a betrayal of who you actually are. And it never holds up under real pressure because it was never real to begin with.