Self-talk is your inner voice. It's part of your stream of consciousness that allows you to process and understand what's happening around you.

My guest Vasavi Kumar says that how you talk to yourself matters. It sets the tone for every experience in your life and will bring you either closer to or farther from the truth of who you are. Today, she'll share how we can step into our power and say it out loud.

Vasavi Kumar is a life coach and licensed therapist with a myriad of in-person, print, televised, and social media experience. A first-generation Indian American growing up on Long Island and diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 19, she learned to become highly self-aware and take action to create the life she wanted for herself.

In this interview, Vasavi offers insight into how we can tune into our inner self to hear our self-guidance and wisdom. She teaches us how to start talking to the voice in our head with compassion and acceptance rather than be influenced by those around us.

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To learn more about Vasavi Kumar and her book "Say It Out Loud: Using the Power of Your Voice to Listen to Your Deepest Thoughts and Courageously Pursue Your Dreams" visit: https://vasavikumar.com/

Interview timestamps:

02:50 ︳Vasavi’s thoughts on sharing her story with the world
04:10 ︳Vasavi shares her past challenges and how it made her the person she is today
06:10 ︳Why how you speak to yourself matters
08:45 ︳Why we’re prone to negative self-talk
10:29 ︳Identifying and replacing negative beliefs that perpetuate negative self-talk
12:39 ︳How to self-reflect on how you speak to yourselves
15:00 ︳Replacing the critical voice of our parents with an empowering voice that supports us
16:00 ︳How does our culture impact our ability to speak out and break the cycle of self-suppression
20:45 ︳How to say it out loud while maintaining our feminine energy
23:49 ︳Vasavi's advice and practices for developing a healthy self-talk