EP228: Joanna Kleinman - How To Successfully Manage Your Inner Critic For A Happier Life

Michael Palmer: If you can learn to do discomfort on purpose, if you can learn to feel the fear and the what if I get rejected and the what if I fail and what if this doesn't work and what if people think this of me and think that of me, and you can feel all those feelings and yet still take action that's in alignment with what you're going for, you've won the lottery of life. If you know how to think in a way that has you taking action in the face of discomfort. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be Fantastic. Our guest is a licensed psychotherapist, life and corporate coach, author, podcaster, motivational speaker, and the founder of Dethroning Your Inner Critic. Joanne Kleinman, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, Michael. It is a pleasure to be here. It is great to have you. And you have quite a list of accomplishments and things that you're up to around dethroning the inner critic. And I know we've talked about the inner critic in the past, but I am super excited about bringing this concept to our listener. But before we get into that, please, Joanna, tell us a little bit about your career journey leading up to this point.

Joanna Kleinman (Jan 19): Sure. Yeah. Well, so I've been a psychotherapist for over 25 years, and I've been on my own personal growth journey. Really, I was introduced to personal growth and development at the age of 9. My, my mother was a psychotherapist. My father was very into personal growth. And so I really took it upon myself at 19 to really understand how do human beings think in a way that really fosters them being able to live extraordinary abundant lives in really all areas of life. So, I've been studying the mind for 30 years. And so, what I found is that the commonality really of all human beings, okay, is that we have this voice that speaks to us all day long from the moment we get up to the moment we go to bed. And research actually shows that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day, which is pretty astounding. And we listen to every word that this voice says and we mistake it for us. And