89: PRESENCE: Women with a Voice. #2 of 3 Re-Imagining Feminine Power Feminine Power Time with Christine Arylo

What does embodied power look, sound and feel like in a woman who is expressing as her whole and true self?  What does it look, feel and sound like in you? In your presence? In your voice, spoken or written? In how you are received and perceived by others? 
How do you access your truth, your voice and use it to amplify your visibility, influence, and presence in the world… in a way that is true to your expression, your authentic self?
The models for what power looks like in a person, what it sounds like, what people respond to, are distorted.
So we as women and the women before us have to distort and contort ourselves to get a seat at the table, be taken seriously, have our voices heard, or take on the qualities of men or intellectual machines without heart.
That time is over.
No more contorting, distorting our presence to fit in.
And also no more having to scream to be heard, be serious to be taken seriously, and suppressing our femininity in how we dress, speak and show up.
Today I invite you to explore within yourself the ways in which if you knew how to more powerfully wield your voice and presence, you would create more of the reality you desire for yourself, the world and what matters to you.
Whether that is in your relationships, your career, your message, your business, HOW you show up and the presence you are in it, matters big time.
But how we’ve been taught to use that voice, to show up to get what we need and be heard isn’t working for us as women.
So today, in this episode of Feminine Power Time, PRESENCE: Women with a Voice, #2 of 3 in our Re-Imagining Feminine Power series, I invite you to join me, Christine Arylo, women’s leadership advisor and catalyst, and special guest Alexia Vernon, author of Step into Your Moxie, for a session that will touch your heart, open your voice, and inspire you to expand in your expression in this world this year.
We dive into:
The history of what women have had to do to be heard or be taken seriously – thank you so much! And it’s our turn to do it differently.
Why women are not taken seriously or heard – and men are often listened to over women
Revealing what you do when you feel confident or insecure when speaking – are you a bunny, a bull, a cheetah or a owl? And how you may be sabotaging yourself?
Reclaim what leadership is – and why we must do this as women to have the influence we desire in the world.
How to have your full range of emotion and also be a powerful catalyst for change and elevation not more separation
Difference between trying to BE something, and being who you are – and how to tell the difference
Is what you look like on the outside reflecting who you are on the inside?

What happens when you move from your focus from trying to inform and get other people to understand and to shifting to focusing on connection?

Where your feminine power and voice lives in your body – and why spanx, bellies and flat abs are short circuiting our power How do you find and express your natural communication super power? Here are some of the wisdom bytes from the show followed by how to connect with Alexia, including her book Step into Your Moxie – and also upcoming retreats with Christine Arylo.
 
WISDOM BYTES:
 
Leadership is not bestowed vs. leadership is embodied and chosen.  

Embrace your leadership power, do not try to “own” your power.

Confidence comes from stopping to grip your body and let your body do what it knows how to do to connect with others and move the energy. It intuitively knows when to stay still, we know when to move.
  Your power comes from your presence, not your position.
  If you know what your core essences are, then you can be who you are truly are.
  If you don’t know who you are in your core, you will contort yourself to fit in.
  As women who want to have more impact in the world. we have to harness our storytelling power.

We are being called to speak more clearly,