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Choosing Courage Over Fear Featuring Diana Acuna

Diana Acuna has spent the last 20 years in SaaS, helping companies evaluate and implement software solutions across a variety of industries.

Despite having success throughout her career, deep down she was afraid to be herself and afraid of what other people thought, so she became a perfectionist.

She had focused on the external factors that would progress her career rather than the internal struggles that were holding her back.

One day she decided to choose courage over fear and realized that expressing her feelings, opinions, and emotions wasn’t going to kill her.

In fact, the opposite was true. People engaged and responded positively.

In today’s episode of Smashing the Plateau, you will learn how improving your emotional intelligence can drive lasting change in your career and your life.

Diana and I discuss:

  • Choosing courage over fear [03:26]
  • What happens when you share your struggles [07:57]
  • How you feel about sharing your vulnerabilities [09:55]
  • Techniques for sharing sensitive information [11:59]
  • Diana’s likes and competencies [16:46]
  • Integrating employment and entrepreneurship [18:52]

Today, Diana is a speaker and coaches professionals on how to improve their emotional intelligence so they can drive lasting change in their careers and lives.

Learn more about Diana at https://dianatalks.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianaacuna/.

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Transcript
Diana Acuna:

My father took his life when I was five years old.

Diana Acuna:

And that's not generally something I go around telling a lot of people.

Diana Acuna:

I'm not embarrassed about it anymore.

Diana Acuna:

I was for a long time, but in, in a workplace it's generally not something

Diana Acuna:

that organically comes up in conversation.

Diana Acuna:

Yet over the last two years in Covid, a lot of people have been affected by

Diana Acuna:

mental health and things have happened.

Diana Acuna:

And I had a colleague who lost a family member to suicide, and it was

Diana Acuna:

at that point where I felt, appropriate to share with that person, I've

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gone through the same thing, too.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Welcome to Smashing the Plateau.

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We help consultants, coaches, entrepreneurs, and small business

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owners build their business after a long career, as an employed professional.

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We believe you should be able to do what you love and get paid

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what you're worth, consistently.

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I'm your host David Shriner-Cahn.

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Today on Smashing the Plateau, I'm speaking with the founder

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of Diana Talks, Diana Acuna.

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In today's episode, Diana explains how she learned to share information about

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herself, opening connections with others.

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By deepening relationships, Diana has created lasting change

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in her career and her life.

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Now let's welcome, Diana Acuna.

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Diana has spent the last 20 years in SAAS, helping companies evaluate

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and implement software solutions across a variety of industries.

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Despite having success throughout her career, deep down, she was

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afraid to be herself and afraid of what other people thought.

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So she became a perfectionist.

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She had focused on the external factors that would progress her

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career rather than the internal struggles that were holding her back.

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One day, Diana decided to choose courage over fear and realize that

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expressing her feelings, opinions, and emotions, wasn't going to kill her.

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In fact, the opposite was true.

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People engage and responded positively.

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Today, Diana is a speaker and coaches professionals on how to

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improve their emotional intelligence so they can drive lasting change

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in their careers and their lives.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Diana, welcome to the show.

Diana Acuna:

Thank you, David.

Diana Acuna:

So happy to be here.

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It's great to have you, so tell me about that day when you

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decided to choose courage over fear.

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Sounds like it was a real trigger moment for you.

Diana Acuna:

It was early in my career, and I remember finding it was a colleague

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and, a colleague that had become a friend.

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So it was someone that I felt safe with, that I could, that

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I felt like I could trust.

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And I had previously avoided talking about emotions, I

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thought that they were useless.

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I could operate life without them.

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And I was nervous about sharing some of the things that had happened in

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my childhood and an adolescence for fear of being judged or frowned upon.

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And so in that moment, I shared my story with this gentleman about some

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of the things that I had experienced in my childhood and in my life.

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And that was a pivotal moment for me in my career, in the way that he

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reacted and how he responded to it.

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And I learned that he had actually gone through something similar.

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We ended up I think bonding and becoming even closer as a result of it.

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And that moment led me on this path to go to therapy, do self work and really just

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start this whole evolution and journey of focusing more on how I feel quite

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frankly, in emotions and how those things could really benefit me and being okay.

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Quite honestly, with talking about some of the things, that happened to us as

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people and not just as professionals.

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And from that point on, what did you do

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differently in your work environment?

Diana Acuna:

It was an evolution that took time, truthfully.

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I would say I kept, sort of testing the water to see, was

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it safe to continue to do this?

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Cuz I think it's a balance too of, I don't, know that you need to go around

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sharing your story to everybody.

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But I think being on honest, being authentic, owning who you are instead

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of trying to hide that and having courage to share opinions, even if

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they're maybe less than popular, usually tends to get positive results.

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And so I just continued to try that over and over again in ways that I think that I

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felt would be safe, and learned over time, there's a lot of power in doing that.

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And I think continued to get a lot of evidence.

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Like every time I did that, every time I took a risk, and I was courage

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and I said something that I thought maybe would be unpopular, or I said

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something or I did something maybe that I wouldn't have otherwise done.

Diana Acuna:

The responses that I were getting from people, surprised me in a good way.

David Shriner-Cahn:

You know, it's interesting, reflecting on how I've

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behaved in similar situations and, and I couldn't agree with you more

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so I know, for example, when I'm writing, emails to our list or sharing

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some posts on social media, which are designed to help our audience of

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consultants, coaches, and small business owners do better in their business

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and improve their business success.

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When I write something.

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if there's a point that I want to make and I write something where I share

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how I may have struggled with the same issue, I tend to get a better response

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from people, either a better open rate or, or I'll get more responses from the

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email or more responses to the post.

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Yeah.

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So I totally see it.

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for example, I recently wrote a post about trying to, I think it was trying

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to focus on, just getting a small amount or maybe even just one like major thing

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done per day and trying to say no to all the distractions, which I find really

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hard to do, because the distractions are usually people that want some kind of

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help for some, with something and not all of those distractions are going to,

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produced great result for my business.

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Whereas if I know that there's one thing that I've really

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gotta make an improvement on.

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If I want to work on, a marketing piece that takes some concentration,

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for example, And distractions of, all kinds of requests from different people

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are going to deter my ability to focus on the, creating a marketing piece.

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So I totally relate that sharing something personal about your own struggles can

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really make a big difference in your, the response that you get from people

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. Diana Acuna: Can I agree.

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Yeah.

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The other thing I was thinking about is, I spent a long time in my career

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as an employee before I became an entrepreneur in 2006, and as an employee,

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I always felt like I needed to be, I need it to be right most of the time.

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And that sharing something where I was struggling, was going to impact

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my career negatively or impact how my performance was perceived

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by supervisors and colleagues.

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And I wonder, what you've experienced around the same thing, particularly

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since you're still, you are an employee now, as well as an entrepreneur.

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Yeah.

Diana Acuna:

great question.

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I feel the same way, or at least I felt the same way for a long time that,

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showing weakness or showing areas where they were, things that I still needed

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to work on or were not my strengths.

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I saw that as a risk or threat.

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And what I've come to learn is no one is inherently good at everything.

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And.

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So it's okay to be human.

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and I think now, especially in this day and age, people respond so, so

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well, and so positively to authenticity and to knowing what your strengths

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are and what you're good at and being vulnerable and asking for help.

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And I learned that pretty quickly that yeah, sure there may be some

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people maybe who want to take advantage and exploit that if there's

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something that you're weak at.

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But by and large, most people don't.

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Most people are good and kind and generous and want to help you.

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And for me, I've always found it really beneficial to, to ask for help

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and to be vulnerable because that's the only way generally you're going

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to get help is if you ask for it.

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And I think it's also a really good way to establish trust and rapport with

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somebody in going through that kind of exercise and exchange with them.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Yeah.

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Now at the same time, when you're about to share something where

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it's a personal story or something where you perceive that you may be

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struggling and you want some help.

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Do you feel that there's a piece of what's going on where you may be, you

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reluctant to share it, even though particularly given your experience

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and what you've gone through and what you focus on in your, speaking

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business, that being vulnerable in the long run is likely to be beneficial.

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Yet in the short run before, you're about to say something where you're

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sharing something how do you feel?

Diana Acuna:

My immediate reaction in terms of how I feel about

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it is probably really nervous.

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and I think maybe one other thing to point out to, David in terms of my professional

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business still being employed.

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And then my speaking business that I'm doing in parallel is I think

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part of it's using judgement.

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In terms of what to share with whom and who to ask for help for.

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So for example, I'm fortunate in the people that I work with and

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that I'm employed with, where I've known them for a while.

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We have trust and rapport.

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And I generally feel very comfortable about being Diana through and through with

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them, but that's not always been the case.

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So in certain scenarios, I have relied on people that I've formally worked

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with or people in my network to ask for help where I, there was a relationship

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or there was some trust and credibility built because I felt like that was

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safer quite frankly, to solicit help or to solicit some, information to

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help me do something in that capacity.

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Whereas maybe, I felt like I was still working on building

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trust and proving myself.

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Maybe if I, was relatively new at a company and I wanted to build

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my image and have some quick wins.

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Maybe I would get help from somebody else.

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So I think it depends.

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And I think that's where you have to use judgment in terms of

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what you want to share and how much help you want to ask for.

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And thinking about all the various resources that you have in terms

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of, where you can solicit that from.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Yeah.

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So one technique that I'm hearing from you, if you're about to share something

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where you're not quite sure how it will be perceived by the person that you're

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about to share it with is to, test sharing that same information with somebody

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where, you have a strong trusting bond.

Diana Acuna:

Exactly.

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And David, if I can just be, perfectly candid with you in the audience.

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Just to give a real life example.

Diana Acuna:

My father took his life when I was five years old and that's

Diana Acuna:

not generally something.

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I go around telling a lot of people I'm not embarrassed about it anymore.

Diana Acuna:

I was for a long time, but in, in a workplace that's generally not something

Diana Acuna:

that organically comes up in conversation yet over the last two years, in Covid, a

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lot of people have been affected by mental health and some things have happened.

Diana Acuna:

And I had a colleague who lost a family member to suicide, and it

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was at that point where I felt, appropriate to share with that person,

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I've gone through the same thing too.

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And so I think, like I said, going back to judgment, I would never, ever

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had, have had ever shared my story with anybody that I worked with at that point

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in time until that moment happened.

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And I made a judgment call to be, vulnerable with him and to

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let him know, like, I'm so sorry.

Diana Acuna:

And I don't know exactly what you're going through, but I've

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been through something similar.

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So I think you're right, David, it's a combination of testing and knowing trust.

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And then I think you can also find scenarios with people where you have

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things that you can relate to as well.

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And then you can use those things to continue to build trust

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and rapport with each other.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Yeah.

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Are there strategies that you recommend to people to test out these various

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scenarios where you're sharing bits of information about yourself with different

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people, as you're trying to improve your own emotional intelligence and also

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maybe be seen in a slightly different light over, longer period of time?

Diana Acuna:

Yeah, I think that's a great question.

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I think that there's two ways I would look at doing it.

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One is with people that you already know and trust.

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So your friends and family, because it's already safe and you have that existing

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connection and relationship and you can talk to them and let them know this

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is something that you're working on.

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And to the extent that you want to, practice it.

Diana Acuna:

Certainly you can, I've had many conversations with some of my

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close friends about exactly this.

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And then outside of, conversations with your friends or peers or family, there

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are also exercises that you can do as well to practice or learn about yourself

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in terms of becoming more self-aware and socially aware of other people as I think

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that's the other component to this as well, is you having a good understanding

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of who you are and how you communicate.

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But then also having starting to have a good understanding of how other people

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are and how they communicate is also a very helpful and an objective way.

Diana Acuna:

And when it comes to the communication of this,

David Shriner-Cahn:

Right, yeah.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Can you talk a little bit about some of those exercises?

Diana Acuna:

Yeah, sure.

Diana Acuna:

So a couple, and these are ones that you can do on your own they're

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ones that you can do as a team.

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They're ones that you could do, with a coach things I've done with people

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that I've mentored and even with people that are on my team are through Gallup.

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Does CliftonStrength Finders.

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Then you can do that as an individual employee or as a manager, which is

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a great way to take a survey and ask you some questions about things that

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you like and helps you understand what your top five strengths are.

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And I like their philosophy on strengths because it focuses on what you're

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inherently good at, because you can always be more of what you are, but it's really

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hard to be something that you're not.

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And then there's another.

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A similar type of survey, that's called the DiSC assessment, which I

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also like as well, similar to Clifton, but different in that it tells you

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what your communication style is.

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And then it also helps to inform you of what the communication styles of

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others are, which is really helpful.

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I think particularly if you're trying to learn how to read a room

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or how to resonate with other people and learn the different types of

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communication styles of other people.

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So those are two very tactical, practical, easy tools that one can do individually.

Diana Acuna:

Or as I said, in, in a team sort of setting,

David Shriner-Cahn:

That's actually really great information, Diana.

David Shriner-Cahn:

And in your own case, what do you find are the, you do well when it

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comes to your own competencies and also what it is you love doing.

Diana Acuna:

Empathy.

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is, one of my top strengths comes naturally to me.

Diana Acuna:

I think that it has a big part to do with the, nature versus

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nurture how I was raised.

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And in interestingly enough, as does reading a room, being able

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to pay attention to, what people are feeling and, or their, facial

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expressions, body language.

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And I enjoy that.

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So I think that's part of the reason why I've been in sales.

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And I enjoy speaking is I like interacting with people.

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I have this weird duality, I think of being somewhat of an introvert, but also

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really enjoying people in a way where I like to see what makes them tick.

Diana Acuna:

And I think that probably ties back to my strengths and the things that I'm good at.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Sounds great.

David Shriner-Cahn:

And, who do you love serving?

Diana Acuna:

I love serving women in tech, in particular.

Diana Acuna:

I've been fortunate to work, obviously with all kinds of different

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professionals, but I have a special place for women probably that

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were just like me 20 years ago.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Can you talk a little bit about where you are in your

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career and, a little bit about how the employment and entrepreneurship

Diana Acuna:

yeah.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Is working out, going on simultaneously?

Diana Acuna:

Yes.

Diana Acuna:

Great question.

Diana Acuna:

Probably am a little unique compared to maybe some of the other

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guests on Smashing the Plateau.

Diana Acuna:

I'm still currently employed full time working in software.

Diana Acuna:

Which I love.

Diana Acuna:

And I've also been in my, started my business a couple years ago.

Diana Acuna:

So I'm doing both, which is quite fun and interesting.

Diana Acuna:

And obviously the goal, at some point is to transition, into

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just having my own business.

Diana Acuna:

but for the time being, I'm doing both.

Diana Acuna:

Working in software, managing a team and then, nights and weekends

Diana Acuna:

running the speaking business.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Wow.

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Do you have any advice for people that are in your situation being

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employed full-time and also wanting to do something as an entrepreneur?

Diana Acuna:

I would say, go for it.

Diana Acuna:

I've found you can do it.

Diana Acuna:

I think it's just a matter of prioritizing what's important

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to you and making time to do it.

Diana Acuna:

And while I think at face value, it can seem daunting.

Diana Acuna:

It doesn't have to be, it's just a matter of doing a little something every day.

Diana Acuna:

And I got really good advice when I first decided to do this, which was to

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decide to just do something every day.

Diana Acuna:

And so when I first started, I made a commitment to myself to just do

Diana Acuna:

something for 30 minutes every day.

Diana Acuna:

And I, for the most part have done that.

Diana Acuna:

I've there have been some times where I've given myself a break and I've

Diana Acuna:

needed it and I've taken it, but I've never, ever really fully stopped

Diana Acuna:

or felt like I wanted to put it on the shelf or a walk away from it.

Diana Acuna:

And some days that 30 minutes is just staring at a screen or reading an article

Diana Acuna:

to try and research something or get inspired, but it's still doing something.

Diana Acuna:

And that, has led to, me being able to generate revenue already in just having

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started this, within less than two years.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Wow.

David Shriner-Cahn:

That's great.

David Shriner-Cahn:

congratulations on everything that you, that you have going on.

David Shriner-Cahn:

What's your grand vision for where you'd love this to go?

Diana Acuna:

I would love this to be a hybrid.

Diana Acuna:

I enjoy speaking as you know, David and I really enjoy coaching and mentoring.

Diana Acuna:

And so my vision for this is that it could be, sort of this trifecta

Diana Acuna:

of online content that's available for people for like self-serve and

Diana Acuna:

learning, also coaching and mentoring, if that's something that they're

Diana Acuna:

interested in more of a one-on-one fashion and then self-serving

Diana Acuna:

for me just because I enjoy it.

Diana Acuna:

It obviously would be the ability to speak as well.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Sounds great.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Diana, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to join us today on

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Smashing the Plateau and share a little bit about your own story and where you are

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in your career and your business as well.

David Shriner-Cahn:

If someone wants to go deeper with anything we've discussed, learn more

David Shriner-Cahn:

about you access any resources you may have, or get in touch with you, where

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would be the best place for them to go?

Diana Acuna:

They can go to my website, dianatalks.com or

Diana Acuna:

they can find me on LinkedIn.

David Shriner-Cahn:

Sounds great.

David Shriner-Cahn:

And we will include those links in the show notes.

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My guest today has been the founder of Diana Talks, Diana Acuna.

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I want to thank you again, Diana for joining us.

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Thanks for having me, David.

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On today's episode with Diana Acuna, we learned how improving

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About the author, David Shriner-Cahn

David is the podcast host and community builder behind Smashing the Plateau, an online platform offering resources, accountability, and camaraderie to high-performing professionals who are making the leap from the corporate career track to entrepreneurial business ownership.

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