Welcome to the six-figure influencer podcast.

I'm your host, Ellie Reeves, and my purpose is to help women grow their online businesses, influence, and income with ease.

If you're ready to drop the excuses and start showing up as the boss

you know you're meant to be, then you've come to the right place. Let's get started.

Hello, welcome to the six-figure influencer podcast. I am Ali Ree, and I'm so happy that you are hanging out with me right now, wherever you are in the world.

I'm just thankful that you are here and you are giving me some time because I can only imagine how busy you are and all of the amazing things that you are doing in your life.

So what are we going to talk about today? Let's see. I'm trying to think where I should start.

So I've shared before that I'm doing these podcasts more on the fly and more, I guess maybe on the fly isn't the right term, but more so,

like not as curated and I guess edited.

I've shared, I've been talking about this a lot on Instagram or more recently on

Instagram about how in the past, when I would create and record my podcasts, I was so nervous

and I had such little confidence in my ability to speak eloquently and get a point across in a manner

that was worthy of my listeners. And because of that, I would literally script my podcasts

word for word. I would sit down and for days, sometimes a week, I would write out a full

script exactly how I would say it and then I would sit and I would read it, but I would only read it

perfectly. It was like some weird OCD stuff, perfectionist crap coming up for me. That's how I started the podcast. And now that I've been

doing this for over a year, I've gotten a lot better at, well, I've dropped the script a long

time ago, mainly because I couldn't sustain that. It took me way too long. And it was either keep doing the script and have to

do less podcast episodes or just stop doing them together or like let go of the control a little bit

and trust myself and allow myself to get better on my own without a script.

And luckily, I chose the latter and here we are.

And what that's looked like is me letting go of the control and getting more comfortable

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