How To Stop Getting Interrupted In Meetings & Be Authoritative

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We share a simple three-part framework to stop getting interrupted and start leading with grounded authority. Inner work shapes belief, outer work sharpens presence, and people work gives you clean language to acknowledge and redirect without drama.

• the inner narrative that fuels authority 
• a one-week exercise to build belief 
• voice, volume, and pacing that hold space 
• posture and body cues that reduce interruptions 
• clean scripts to acknowledge and redirect 
• pre-framing the room to protect your point 
• handling patterns privately without escalation 
• turning confidence into a repeatable habit

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:21):
Level up.
Step it up because I believethat your purpose gonna be a
magnetic leader.

SPEAKER_01 (00:32):
Today we're talking about how to stop getting
interrupted in meetings.
We're gonna go into three partsthat are very important.
And I want you to look at it inthe sense of this is a very
simple framework that you canremember to do.
One, before the meeting, twowhile you're in the meeting, and

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three with the people in theone.
This is what we call the innerwork.
A lot of times when we talkabout presence and how do I stop
getting interrupted, a lot oftimes it's looked at as tactics
and strategies, which arephenomenal.

(01:20):
Nothing wrong with tactics andstrategies.
I'm going to give you some inthis video.
But if we're not doing thedeeper work, if we're not
actually doing some of the innerwork, then it just becomes this
exhausting process of alwaysdoing tactics and strategies
without really changing thecore.

(01:42):
Because I can tell you, when youdo the inner work, when you
commit to really doing the workthat transforms you, then the
tactics and the strategiesbecome a natural byproduct.
You don't have to try anymore.

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So what is the inner work whenwe are talking about how to stop
getting introduced?
Do you believe that you havesomething valuable to say?
Do you believe that what you aresharing is just as valuable, if

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not more valuable than anyoneelse in this meeting?
And I don't mean become arrogantand egotistical.
In fact, the people that I workwith that are attracted to my
work are not egotistical andarrogant.

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They often are the ones who arewildly competent, but don't
fully embody what they can do inthis world.
And I can resonate with this.
This is one of the reasons why Iwork with leaders who are
absolutely capable, but don'talways embody that confidence
because I was heroin.

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And the first thing you have todo is realize that what you have
to say and what you have toshare is not only important, but
it's part of your gift into theworld.
It is part of your purpose.
I need you to recognize you'rethe type of person who doesn't

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even need to do a lot ofresearch.
Now you may do some researchbecause you're lacking
confidence, but a lot of timesyou already have the answers.
You already know what the answeris.
But you have to believe thatwhat you know and what you have
to share is worth hearing.

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There was a time in my lifewhere I didn't think what I had
to share was valuable, that Iwould talk really, really quick
to just get it over with reallyquick because I thought that the
person was gonna come in and cutme off.
I lacked the inner authority.

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So the first step is alwaysdoing the inner work.
So for the next week, do thisfor a week every day.
Write up at least 25 reasons whywhat you have to share is worth
hearing.

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And if you're really ambitious,do 50.
And I know it can seemexcessive, but we really have to
start implanting a new narrativebecause the lack of confidence
or feeling like you're not worthlistening to is not going to
come across well in a meetingwith personalities that may be

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more dominant.
So that is the first, it's innerwork.
Number two is outer work.
So this is to increase yourvocal and your physical
presence.
Remembering that communicationis not just what you're saying,

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it's how you're saying it, it'syour physical presence.
Now, if we're walking in orwe're sitting down and we're
talking really quiet, or we'rekind of like, yes, and we're
fidgeting, and we're playingwith our hair.

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And a lot of times you're noteven conscious that you're doing
this, right?
It's like the nervousness iscoming over, and you're just
touching and you're fidgetingand you're you're talking, or
you're saying a lot of fillerwords.
This is very easy for someone,especially someone with a more
dominant personality, to come inand cut you off and start

(06:07):
running with it.
So, how do you come in with morepresence?
One, deepen your voice.
And I know this it can soundweird, like Lisa, why do I need
to change my voice?
Well, you're not changing it.
Our voice is an instrument.

(06:30):
So when I'm talking to mydaughter, I'll often talk with a
higher tone.
Or if I'm talking to youngchildren, I'll often talk like
this.
It's a little bit of a highertone, it's a little bit more of
a melody.
If I'm going into a meeting withCEOs and principals of a

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company, I'm going in with adeeper voice.
I'm also going in with a loudervoice.
Now, this doesn't mean I'mscreaming.
That would be very weird andstrange.
But I'm going in with a tonethat says, I mean business.

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I am of authority here.
It's very easy to come in ifsomeone's talking really quietly
like this, to want to come inand share your point again for a
more dominant personality.
So we want to raise our voice,we want to deepen it.

(07:42):
Doesn't mean it it needs tosound like you're rally
deepening it, like no, but youcan play with your voice.
If you haven't played with yourvoice, play with it.
It's an instrument.
Go down a couple of notches towhere it sounds natural for you.
Right?
Shoulders back, head up.

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We're not slouching, we're notmaking ourselves small.
A lot of times when we're unsureof what we are saying, we want
to make ourselves small, right?
We want to we want to bend down.
So we want to make a point ofsitting up tall.

(08:26):
We want to make a point ofbringing our shoulders back.
Picture if there was a string ontop of your head pulling you up,
right?
Pulling us up like this.
So we are in our power.
We have a presence.
So what harder to interruptsomeone that has a powerful

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presence?
Now, again, inner work, outerwork, number three is people
work.
So this is where if someoneinterrupts you, again, most of
the time, when someoneinterrupts you, it's not going

(09:10):
to be from a malicious place.
They're excited to get somethingin, they lack their own skills,
right?
Which most people are lacking alot of skills in communication
areas.
So we want to acknowledge whatthey have to say, especially if

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what they are saying is ofvalue, especially if this is
someone who often sharessomething of value, but we want
to redirect.
So Janet interrupts.
What do we say?
Janet, I love what you'resharing right now, and I want to

(09:55):
hear it in detail, but I'm goingto finish what I have to say,
and then I'm going to turn it toyou.
And then you finish what you'resaying.
You don't need to apologize.
You don't need to say, excuseme.
You simply acknowledge andredirect.

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A big part of this, when I'mworking with leaders, and we're
working on confidence or we'reworking on authority.
A lot of times there's thisthought pattern or a belief
system that I have to overpowerpeople, or I have to dominate

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other people.
A lot of times they feel likethey've been overpowered.
It's not about overpoweringanything, it's about owning your
own power, owning your authorityin the space, truly believing
that you belong there and thatwhat you have to share is

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valuable.
And giving others the respectand acknowledgement that you
desire.
Now, again, if someone's comingin and maliciously interrupting
because there's a pattern thereand you're aware of that
pattern, that's another story.

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That's a whole notherconversation.
But for the most part, whatyou're going to find is the more
you practice this, andespecially, especially do the
inner work.
And I mean the real inner work.
Getting honest with yourself,getting honest with what needs

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to be done, what's the work youneed to be done.
And again, this is what I dowith my private clients.
If you're interested in learningmore about that, head on over to
my website and book a test driveconsult.
But the more you own thatauthority, the more you learn
some skills, the more youpractice with people.

(12:13):
I promise you, I don't carewhere you're starting from.
I don't care if you feel likeyou're a mouse in the corner, or
if you get bulldozed all thetime, or maybe you're somewhat
who feel like you'reunintentionally bulldozing
others and you just can't seemto stop.
You can change it 100%.

(12:38):
You can absolutely make acomplete one age.
But it starts with you, itstarts with what you're doing
internally, it starts with thenarrative you're having with
yourself.
It's starting with the storyyou're telling yourself on a
daily basis, and then it'sadding in the skills, then it's

(13:01):
adding in the strategies, andit's practicing repeatedly until
you feel like this is just how Iam now.
I hope this was helpful later.
Appreciate you.
I love you.
And as always, let's stayconnected.

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