Rebecca H. Mott, a founder of ReThought LLC & an author of Amazon #1 new release The Meeting Room, and "The Meeting Architect", discusses how the energy you bring into a room sets the tone for conversations, decisions, and outcomes. Rebecca shares a lesson from early customer service work that smiling affects tone even on the phone, and explains how stress and "nervous energy" influence how others receive you before you speak. She emphasizes this is learnable through awareness and breath control, describing how marathon training taught her to pace breathing and notice stress indicators like holding her breath in meetings. She contrasts being a "thermometer" versus a "thermostat," urging intentional calm presence, especially for leaders. Rebecca also shares her October 2024 diagnosis of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, encourages mammograms, describes completing treatment and being cancer-free, and credits faith and responsibility in healing.

Timestamps:

00:00 Welcome & Guest Introduction

02:35 Energy as Data: The Origin Story

03:44 Smiling Through the Phone

05:48 Setting the Temperature Before You Speak

09:13 Breath as Your Superpower

09:34 The Running & Side Stitches Lesson

12:29 Neuroscience of Calm Presence

15:20 Thermometer vs. Thermostat

18:21 Leading with Intentional Energy

21:28 Rebecca's Cancer Journey & Faith

24:35 Advice to Her Younger Self

27:17 Connect with Rebecca

Get In Touch:

If you're interested in connecting with Rebecca Mott, you can reach her via her website (http://www.trainwithrebecca.com) or her LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/in/rebeccahmott ).

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