📣🇮🇱🎙️ The Real Israel Podcast Ep 16 | How to stay cool when people attack your right to exist.

In this episode of The Real Israel Podcast, host Chaim Malespin sits down in a quiet Israeli orchard with Maya Behar, a communications expert with more than forty years in the performing arts and seventeen years coaching professionals and organizations, to answer a question almost every Jewish person and every Israeli is living right now: what do you do when your identity is put on trial, on a campus, on live television, or across a dinner table, and your own body starts to betray you? Maya explains what actually happens in those seconds before words come out, why fight, flight, or freeze takes over, and why the deepest trap is believing you must stand as a symbol for an entire nation. She walks through the practical shift that changes everything, from performing to connecting, and the grounding and breathing she uses to turn nerves into energy. She shares the mantra she discovered fifteen years ago ("some will love you, some won't"), why you don't have to be everyone's friend to be a leader, and how to own the tension in a room instead of drowning in it. Chaim brings the now-famous reframes ("I'd like to speak to someone who respects women's rights") and the two of them explore how to listen, repeat back, and stay loyal to your own truth without parroting talking points. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome from the orchard: meet Maya Behar 02:00 When a whole people is asked to justify its existence 04:00 Fight, flight, or freeze: what happens in your body first 07:00 The trap of carrying the entire nation on your shoulders 10:00 The third way: represent humanity, not a symbol 13:00 The 60 seconds before you walk into a hostile room 16:00 You're not there to impress, you're there to connect 19:00 "Some will love you, some won't. So what." 22:00 Owning the tension and using it like judo 25:00 Listen, repeat it back, then speak your truth 28:00 The reframe: women's rights, animal rights, and Oct 7 33:00 What still makes it hard, even after all these years 37:00 One thing to remember: you're a human wearing many hats 👉 SUBSCRIBE for new episodes of The Real Israel Podcast every week and hit the bell so you never miss a conversation that cuts through the noise. 📲 Follow The Real Israel Podcast on Facebook & Instagram 🎧 Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts wherever you go. #MayaBehar #TheRealIsrael #Communication #IsraelAdvocacy #SpeakingUnderPressure In a time our Prime Minister calls the eighth front of this war — the war of disinformation — your support helps us fight back with truth. Donate at www.chaimmalespin.com/support and help us keep Israel’s real story alive. From the Front Lines of Truth Israel faces many enemies: Iran, terror proxies, and now a flood of deliberate disinformation. You can push back. Give today at www.chaimmalespin.com/support and stand with us in telling the real Israel. Truth as a Defense The eighth front in this war is fought with words, images, and lies. We counter it with truth. If this episode mattered to you, please donate at www.chaimmalespin.com/support and make that truth stronger. Your Voice Matters Hostages, tunnels, frontline voices — we bring you what the media won’t. In this eighth front of the war, against disinformation, your gift is a weapon of truth. Donate now at www.chaimmalespin.com/support Like, comment, subscribe — and in this eighth front of the war against disinformation, take the next step: donate at www.chaimmalespin.com/support and join us in defending the truth about Israel. SUPPORT: https://www.chaimmalespin.com/support CHECK OUT MY NEW WEBSITE: www.chaimmalespin.com