Where Confidence Really Comes From

This is not a newsletter issue telling you to “fake it ‘till you make it.”

This is a newsletter issue about where confidence really comes from, and how to start building it now.

Earlier this week, I was a panel speaker on the topic of being a multi-faceted woman- someone whose career cannot be defined by one neat LinkedIn headline.

Being a professional public speaker has been a goal of mine since college, but I’ve had to overcome two big mindset blocks in order to get the ball rolling:

1. The self-imposed cringe (“Does wanting this career make me a narcissist? Is it giving Tony Robbins?”)

2. The confidence to see myself in the same rooms as my role models

I was simultaneously telling myself that what I wanted was “wrong” and holding the people I saw doing it in impossibly high regard.

So how did I overcome the confidence gap? 

I learned that: