Natalie FisherCEO, Natalie Fisher Coaching

4 Unexpected Ways To Prepare For An Interview Or Important Meeting - EPISODE #227

21 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this coaching segment, Natalie Fisher emphasizes the often‑overlooked practice of "having your own back" when preparing for interviews or important meetings. She explains that while we commonly focus on supporting others, we must also decide in advance how we will speak to ourselves after the event, regardless of the outcome. The real fear, she notes, isn’t the possibility of a negative result but the internal dialogue that follows. By pre‑planning supportive self‑talk, you can reduce anxiety, avoid self‑criticism, and create a mindset that enables rapid, exponential personal growth—what she describes as "quantum leaps" in performance and confidence.

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Have your own back. Okay? And we talk a lot about having other people's backs and how, you know, you've got your friends' back or you've got your coworkers' back. They've got your back. But we don't talk about having our own backs. Okay? So, having your own back is deciding ahead of time how you will talk to yourself after the meeting or the interview is over. Regardless of the results you get. A major breakthrough I had was I'm not actually afraid of getting a negative outcome. I'm not actually scared of that. What I'm scared of is how I'm going to talk to myself after, if the negative outcome does occur, right? Because once you learn how to have your own back, you will be able to do things that will move you forward in quantum leaps exponentially. Okay.