Building Confidence
This podcast looks at the topic of confidence with the aim of helping anyone who might be struggling with their self-esteem or anyone wanting to improve their self-confidence in certain areas of their life. suereid.substack.com
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Whatever Happens I Trust Myself to be Okay (opens the original)
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This is the final post in this months theme of building confidence. Week 1 - All I Wanted Was to Be Susan’s Friend and to Own a Pony Week 2- I Didn’t Only Build My Confidence, I Uncovered Who I Was Week 3 - If You Wait Until You Are Confident, You Will Never Take the Leap I started this month wanting Susan to choose me. I end with the realisation that I can choose myself. Carla was super confident. She was six feet tall too, which made her even more imposing. When I first met her, I thought she
If You Wait Until You Are Confident, You Will Never Take the Leap (opens the original)
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This is the third post in this months theme of building confidence. Week 1 - All I Wanted Was to Be Susan’s Friend and to Own a Pony Week 2- I Didn’t Only Build My Confidence, I Uncovered Who I Was For much of my life, I didn’t feel good enough. I was a high achiever who felt like an imposter. So working in a career where league tables rated performance was ideal. I could see where I stood compared to my peers. It gave me the external validation I needed to prove to myself that I was good enough
I Didn’t Only Build My Confidence, I Uncovered Who I Was (opens the original)
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This is the second post in this months theme of building confidence. Week 1 - All I Wanted Was to Be Susan’s Friend and to Own a Pony I was in a dark place, looking for a light to guide me. In that moment, I felt I had a choice. Stay a victim and keep spiralling down. Or get back on my feet and become my own hero. I decided to stand up. That’s when I committed to building my confidence. One of my favourite books is Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant. He says about love,
Self-Trust and How to Build It - with Bryan Murray (opens the original)
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All I Wanted Was to Be Susan’s Friend and to Own a Pony (opens the original)
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If I met Susan today, fifty-four years after she crushed me, I wonder whether she would even remember me. I doubt it, but I remember her. I would ask her why she asked me to share a bunk bed with her on a school trip, only to dump me at the last minute for another girl. Did she know what that did to my confidence and self-esteem? Did she care? Susan was in my class at school, and she was the kind of girl I wanted to be. Popular, outgoing, always had an entourage of girls around her. Plus, she ha
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