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Speaker 2: I'm like old.

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Speaker 1: Now, come on, come on, community, I thought I was

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Speaker 1: over it.

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Speaker 3: Hi, guys, welcome back to your Thursday's Girl's Guide. We

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Speaker 3: are still with Ashley the Confidence Coach, and we're answering

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Speaker 3: your questions that you asked over on our Instagram.

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Speaker 4: A lot of questions that we got from the girl

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Speaker 4: is how.

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Speaker 3: Do I feel wanted or like self confident in yourself

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Speaker 3: without needing male validation? Because I feel like that is

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Speaker 3: a big thing from girls in general, wanting attention from

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Speaker 3: males and feeling getting confidence from that. So how can

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Speaker 3: we do it without men telling us enough?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: That is a tough one, And honestly, it is still

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Speaker 1: something that I work on all the time, you know,

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Speaker 1: because especially coming from the industry that I have a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of, it is external validation and.

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Speaker 1: Approval from others, you know, and especially like I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at myself, I'm listening to myself all the time, and

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Speaker 1: so it's something that I'm very conscious about. I think

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Speaker 1: we're coming back to our internal confidence and thinking about

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Speaker 1: what we think about ourselves, our personal stories, what sort

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Speaker 1: of narrative we're having, and we're telling ourselves as to

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Speaker 1: why we feel like we need that validation. So obviously

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be some sort of a wound from our

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Speaker 1: past that is making us feel like we are only

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Speaker 1: worthy with someone else's approval. And I'm not a therapist,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a psychologist, so I'm not gonna go tons

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Speaker 1: into that, but I think that ways that I sort

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Speaker 1: of deal with that is by being my own hype girl,

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Speaker 1: wearing things that make me feel good. You know, like

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Speaker 1: I don't really follow trends in terms of clothing because

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Speaker 1: I don't look that good in.

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Speaker 2: Low wasted things. I don't look that good in like

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's like finding your style, finding things that make you

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Speaker 1: feel good. So I know that I feel good in

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Speaker 1: a crop in high wasted things because I like that

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Speaker 1: in my body shape. Yeah, So I think it's really

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Speaker 1: about the story that we're telling ourselves. And so when

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Speaker 1: you it's about building up your own self worth, it's

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Speaker 1: about building up your own validation in your own mind,

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Speaker 1: and it's about being your own biggest supporter. So I

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Speaker 1: guess that's where it comes into affirmations. It comes into

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Speaker 1: thinking about what makes you feel good. And doing more

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Speaker 1: of that. I guess, you know, it is really difficult.

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Speaker 1: It is something that people have to work on all

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Speaker 1: the time. People say to me that my gap in

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Speaker 1: my teeth is ugly. People tell me, you know, you

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Speaker 1: get very criticized online. Yeah, and so it's easy to

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Speaker 1: take that on board. But I think it only hurts

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Speaker 1: if it has a bit of truth behind it. And

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Speaker 1: if it has truth behind it, it means that there's

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Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, that's really good advice.

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Speaker 3: And I think kind of going off that, I know,

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Speaker 3: within today's society, we have so.

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Speaker 4: Many different trends when it comes to body shapes.

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Speaker 3: Like one second it's the bbl's, the next second it's

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Speaker 4: And like being really small and skinny.

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Speaker 3: And I think a lot of girls, it's a very

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Speaker 3: we can never be happy with who we are. We

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Speaker 3: those things. But what is something that you can do

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Speaker 3: for yourself every single day that makes you happy? In

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Speaker 3: the skin that you're in, and like, as you said,

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Speaker 3: you dress for the body that you're in. What a

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Speaker 3: and learn to love themselves with what they look like

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Speaker 1: I feel like it is definitely about trial and error

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Speaker 1: You know, if you feel comfortable in what you're wearing,

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Speaker 1: And so actually figuring out what looks good on you

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Speaker 1: And and I wear color. I don't really wear black

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Speaker 4: That's the key. I couldn't agree with you more.

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Speaker 3: Especially I love experimenting with my style with the job

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Speaker 3: like a superficial thing of like, oh my god, you

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Speaker 4: I know I'm in pants that I'm comfortable in.

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Speaker 3: Like it's going to be okay because you're not so

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Speaker 3: hyper aware of things exactly.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's the hyper awareness because then that's

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Speaker 1: language techniques. You know, that's what you're focusing on, and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: So just wear what you want, guys, bagg of jeans

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Speaker 2: It'll make you feel more confident for sure.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So there's a very common saying of faking it

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Speaker 3: to your make care. Would you say that that's a

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Speaker 1: I feel like yes, because you've got to try.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can't really become confident and good at

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Speaker 1: it's about faking it. I take it back, Yeah, it is,

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Speaker 1: because like my body language techniques, if I feel nervous

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Speaker 3: Like do you know when you do like oh yeah,

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Speaker 5: Aren't really talking or thinking about that. Do you know

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Speaker 1: Because it's something that you're conscious of and you're thinking about,

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Speaker 1: And if you're drawing attention to it by saying, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's again what thoughts are going on in your mind.

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Speaker 1: If you're thinking about it over and over and over again,

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Speaker 1: people don't actually think about you as much as you

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Speaker 1: think about you, but realizing that you can change your

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Speaker 3: And I think I need this as well, because I

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Speaker 5: I'm meeting new faces every day.

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Speaker 3: How do you start a conversation with maybe new people

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Speaker 1: There is so much strategy behind being a conversationalist. And

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to answer this because I feel like

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Speaker 2: So this is perfect. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So when you meet someone for the first time, it's

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Speaker 1: about building rapid connection with them as quickly as possible,

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Speaker 1: So I call it rapid rapport.

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Speaker 5: Wow, that was really good advice.

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Speaker 3: Girls podcast, Ash. The girls I know that are listening,

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Speaker 3: So we are so grateful for having you on Girls.

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Speaker 3: If you want to hear from Ash again, I feel

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Speaker 3: like we've only touched the.

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Speaker 5: Surface of what you could talk about, So please.

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Speaker 3: Let us know in the Instagram dms in my DMS

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Speaker 3: if we want Ash back on. So thank you Ash

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Speaker 3: so much for coming on, and thank you guys for

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Speaker 3: listening and I'll see you next week.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me anytime, babe, anytime,