Secret Episode // Cultivating Confidence

June 22, 2015

This is a little extra somethin’ somethin’ for our newsletter bosses. Confidence is what makes or breaks it for creatives who want to live what they love and pay the bills doing it. How do we define confidence? How do we get more of it? How do we create it? How do we give it to our clients? What shakes up our confidence?

'Happiness, and success, and money all comes down to having some serious confidence.' Share on X 'The more that you can pretend to be what you want, the more you’re able to actually become it.' Share on X 'I just own the things that I’m not the best at so I can focus on the things I am really good at.' Share on X 'Confidence is understanding your emotions and being able to use them to your advantage.' Share on X 'A great measure of confidence is the ability to weigh pros and cons effectively.' Share on X 'Fake it till you BECOME it is my confidence foundation.' Share on X

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Episode Transcript

"Happiness, and success, and money all comes down to having some serious confidence."

- Kathleen Shannon

Discussed in this Episode

Confidence and emotions: how to keep your emotions in check to understand your feelings and flipping them or using them to your advantage
Finding the source of your confidence and drive, sometimes it comes from your rock bottom
Confidence as knowing what you want and being able to express what you want and love
Curiosity and being unafraid to fail as a “scientific experiment”
How to cultivate your own confidence: Turning on your taxi light and faking it till you make it
Adjusting your expectations and assuming the best—choosing to “tune in” to the success rather than the failure
Analyzing the worst case scenario (it’s not as bad as you think)
Who you hang out with affects your confidence—learning how to remove toxic people from your life and surrounding yourself with people who inspire confidence