264: The Role of Symbols and Metaphors in Our Stories with Susan Moe

If you’re an analytical, left-brained thinker like me, this episode is going to give you a different perspective on your content, your speaking, and yourself.

My guest Susan Moe is an MBA-trained former business executive who is now a clairvoyant reader who helps her clients understand themselves better through their own symbols and metaphors.

Susan is a long-time and loyal podcast listener who did a reading for me back in December 2020 (the first one I’ve ever had). It was powerful and revealing - and I share a bit about it in this episode.

You’ll hear in this conversation how I’m on my own journey to get more in touch with my intuitive, creative, right-brained side. I invite you to come along with me!

Susan and I talk about:

• Her journey to the work she does now
• The reading Susan did for me and two of the symbols that stuck with me
• The energy exchange we have with our audiences as speakers
• Releasing the need to please our audiences and feeling like they need to have a certain outcome
• How we can use symbols and metaphors in our presentation content to form a stronger connection with our audience
• At the end, I’m going to share with you a realization I had about one of the symbols after my conversation with Susan

About My Guest: Susan Moe helps people find solutions to problems that they haven’t been able to see through traditional thinking. Whether it’s a relationship, career, parenting, or another dilemma, getting to the core of the issue is key to its resolution. This often requires “seeing” beyond the external circumstances and into the soul deep within. Susan has worked with people around the world for nearly two decades, empowering her clients and students to have sovereignty over their own well-being by teaching them simple, yet powerful, energetic tools and techniques. When not immersed in all things metaphysical, you will find Susan out in nature, relating to her family, or pursuing her other passion project, OneGreenSmoothie, where she promotes personal and planetary health through a plant-centric lifestyle.

About Us: The Speaking Your Brand podcast is hosted by Carol Cox. At Speaking Your Brand, we help women entrepreneurs and professionals clarify their brand message and story, create their signature talks, and develop their thought leadership platforms. Our mission is to get more women in positions of influence and power because it's through women's stories and visibility that we challenge the status quo and change existing systems. Check out our coaching programs at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com.

Links:

Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/264

Susan’s website: https://www.ascendedpresence.com/

Download our FREE workbook on how to position yourself as a thought leader: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/guide/.

Schedule a consult call with us to talk about creating your signature talk and thought leadership platform: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/contact.

Connect on social:

• Carol on LinkedIn = https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolcox
• Caron on Instagram = https://www.instagram.com/carolmorgancox
• Susan Moe (guest) on Instagram = https://www.instagram.com/ascendedpresence/
• Susan Moe (guest) on LinkedIn= https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-moe-580a1b2/

Related Podcast Episodes:

• Episode 263: Finding the Emotional Heart of Your Message with Carol Cox

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