Just out of interest, I really wanted to check in and see exactly how SWC has impacted your communication & confidence and what effect this has had on your life? And what has been the biggest contributor in achieving this: the classroom modules, the community, or the regular group calls? 📥Drop your honest opinions below!

I always remember the moment when I had to go give a presentation about any topic that my school required me to do. I remember those 5 minutes just before making that presentation, feeling that they're all assessing me and that they're all here to just catch my next mistake. This feeling is so vivid even now because it was so strong. My heartbeat would fasten, my palms would get sweaty, and I'd get a very big trouble to get into a flow. I'd be always the one assessing myself alongside with that class. It was one of the worst feelings because I have rehearsed for that presentation. I wasn't a lazy person. Paradoxically, if I would be a lazy person, I think the presentation would go better because I just wouldn't care. But I really cared so much because I didn't want to disappoint anyone. Then I started to seriously think about it because this was happening already on my university as well. I saw people delivering authentic presentations, with very natural body postures, no shaking voice...And I told myself that I can do it too, but I didn't know where to start. And what do you do when you want to learn a skill but you don't know where to start? Youtube:D So I started to learn on YouTube how to be confident during presentation and how to be confident during any kind of social interaction. What I got was just more material to store in my head and more criteria to make sure that they are met. Just more stuff to do and therefore more overwhelmed. It became very heavy to do and now it became even worse to do any presentation because now I wasn't just remembering the text of what I wanted to say, now I was remembering all the things that I have to do alongside, like the body posture, my tonal voice, the speed of my talking, and it was super super exhausting. Then I started to journal about it. I have started to read some books about it and about this quiet, very self-assured confidence. I really wanted so much to be that person to just go in front of the people and speak and even to enjoy it. That's when I realized that all of these things that should be helping me were actually dividing me from that real authentic self. So I tried to strip down all the things that I've learned ever from my childhood from limiting beliefs, and I started to actually realize that for the real confidence, to have the real authentic, pure confidence that is so magnetic, you don't have to do anything but come back to your own truth. You can only do that by going into your world - inside your history - what has happened to you, what people told you, what do you believe. And then I realized how many beliefs were actually forming that fear from public speaking, and how many beliefs were actually forming my belief that, "Oh, I'm just here for them to judge me. Oh, I'm just here for them to catch me when my next mistake is. And they're going to be very happy about it. Oh, I'm just here to show how bad I am." These beliefs were all in me, and I would have never ever found them if I wouldn't have done the work that was required, and I would never ever get rid of that. I would always circle back to this point where I was just doubting myself to do the next presentation, but wanting to do the next presentation because I was ambitious. But I didn't know that all these beliefs were actually running in the background and was always shaping the result that I got. None of these courses were tapping into that.

Today, I’ve decide to do my 30 day communication challenge on TikTok and post so I can expose myself to a different environment. Even though I already do post on there, I never showed them the side where I’m struggling to communicate and articulate myself. To be honest, it was so hard to hit post on that video, even though posting is usually second nature to me. Said all this to say I’m proud of my self for getting out of my comfort zone and if you’re reading this do something that gets you out of your comfort zone it can be anything.

Yesterday I was at a big tech/gaming/culture event and I went there because I have a big interest for gaming and tech in general. I've always struggled to understand how to network with people, or how to connect with people in general. But I took Dino's advice of going to places where I will find people that share similar interests. It worked out great! I went up to random people that seemed interesting and just said what I had in my mind and didn't overthink that much. One of the guys had developed a game by himself and I got to try it out, it was great. It wasn't awkward, it didn't feel odd, it felt like I was chatting to people I already knew. I went up with curiosity and asked him without hesitation "Hey, cool game! Are you the developer?" and from there it lead to an interesting conversation about his journey as a solo developer and his passion for creating games and applications. We talked for half an hour roughly and exchanged Linkedin's. This was also my opportunity to try some of the advice Dino mentioned in his videos, such as ending a conversation by using the environment around me. It worked out nicely!! I don't have a point with this post, I just wanted to share and think out loud for a moment about yesterday because it was a really nice event and I met a lot of cool people.