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12th December, 2023

How to Increase Your Confidence and Impact

With Dr Claire Kaye

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If you’re like most people, you’ll have experienced moments when your confidence wavers, leaving you unsure of yourself and holding back from reaching your full potential. But what if there was a way to increase your confidence and make a greater impact in your personal and professional life?

This week, Dr Claire Kaye joins Rachel to explore the power of confidence and how it influences our lives. They dive into the common challenges we face when it comes to confidence, whether it’s feeling underconfident, lacking self-belief, or dealing with the negative self-talk that holds us back.

But this episode isn’t just about identifying the problem – it’s about finding practical solutions. Claire and Rachel discuss strategies to boost your confidence in a genuine and authentic way, helping you navigate through life’s uncertainties and excel in various areas. They emphasise the importance of knowing yourself, understanding your values, and embracing vulnerability as a pathway to personal growth and success.

If you’re tired of letting self-doubt hold you back, this episode offers valuable insights and actionable tips to help you increase your confidence, impact, and overall fulfilment.

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Reasons to listen

  • Learn practical strategies to boost your confidence and make a greater impact in your personal and professional life.
  • Explore common challenges related to confidence, like feeling underconfident, lacking self-belief, and dealing with negative self-talk.
  • Discover how to be more confident in an authentic and genuine way, without resorting to acting or disingenuous behaviour.

Episode highlights

00:03:16

Confidence and positive outcomes

00:07:28

What a severe lack of confidence can do

00:10:12

What is confidence?

00:15:55

What makes people lose their confidence

00:21:39

Building your confidence

00:24:44

Fear of failure

00:30:33

How environment affects confidence

00:34:01

Comparison

00:40:14

Tackling your inner critic

00:49:43

Claire’s 10 top tips for building confidence

00:52:03

Where to find Claire

Episode transcript

[00:00:00] Rachel: Confidence is one of those things, which can’t feel elusive. Some people have it in spades, whereas others struggled to see in themselves what other people see. And we’ve all met that one colleague who’s maybe just a little too confident. We all struggled with confidence from time to time. But the good news is that there are practical ways that we can build it up. This week. Dr. Claire Kaye is back to define what we mean by confidence and walk us through some surprisingly simple techniques to tackle your inner critic when it tells us we’re…

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