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5.0 (115 reviews)
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YES We DID !!!!

I cannot recommend Yes You Can Speak and its founder and leader Lynn Kirkham highly enough to everyone. I am a firm believer in destiny and sometimes, some EXTRAORDINARY people come to your life, and they uplift you, take you on a different journey 'A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES'. Lynn is that person for me. Meeting with Lynn was nothing short of extraordinary and I am so glad it happened. I was actually looking for Career counselling on LinkedIn and somehow, Lynn's name popped up in my inbox. We had one of the most candid video call EVER !!!! next thing - I was booked for these most awesome and fulfilling 4 weeks of my life. I have been a people person forever and been around and in the leadership role previously, when i was working but somehow there was this self-doubt and anxiety which creeped into me for years. I was not able to fully express my views, I have personally let go many leadership opportunities because somehow, I felt I wasn't ready for that role. When it came to Public Speaking on larger forums, I always excused myself, in utter anxiety and lack in my ability. Somehow, since childhood, the trauma of being not able to articulate myself well in public, stuttering and stammering and getting stuck, has haunted me for years and although I have taken lot of personal development courses or framework like Mindvalley, reading self-development books etc., I never recovered from my self-doubt and self-inflicted miseries. Lynn's 4-week course is an eye opener, not only on how to overcome and actually transform your inner critic, but also help you develop your personality and self-love with positive affirmations and scientific techniques. The course reaffirmed my version of INCREDIBLE ME and made me connect with people with more authenticity and more love. That is so POWERFUL. I was surprised to see so many people, suffering from same or different issues, when it came to public speaking and more so over, expressing themselves fully. In this course, by every week, I observed positive changes in everyone including myself and it was empowering to see everyone shining in their TRUE selves. This course is beautifully curated to bring out the BEST out of you through subtle changes but effective and proven methods. I have reaped the benefits of this program in all sections of my life. I can connect well with everyone including Professors and peers (asking questions without creating a big tree of self-doubts and whatifs in my big head :), I am able to connect better with my partner, my friends and able to express fully without any self-prejudice. Recently I gave an interview for a big firm, and I was able to present myself in a much better position by expressing my true authenticity and my POWER to connect. Currently waiting for my second round of interviews with directors for further negotiations. Some people have joined this course to become better at public speaking, some joined to learn new methods to improve their inner doubts, some joined simply to start loving themselves once again because the world and sometimes our own people disrespected us, knowingly or unknowingly. I joined this amazing course to regain my GIFT, the blessing of connecting with this world and making it better. While I write this review, I can already feel how powerful and amazing I feel from inside. The whole team of Lynn is simply out of the world, and they will cheer you up at every step of the course, uplift you whenever self-doubts clout your mind and they are present for you, even after you are done with the course. Some of the techniques I have learnt during the course will remain forever with me and they are so simple but GOLDMINESSSSSSS !!! This course is life changing and very very Believable. YES, YOU CAN !!! Just like WE did

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