Candace Nelson

Like, wow.

There's not very much effort that goes into that.

And so he had kind of raised the bar and he gave me a little bit of confidence.

I wanted to do for cupcakes what Howard had done for coffee.

Well, I think imposter syndrome, first of all, we can reframe it a little bit because if you are feeling imposter syndrome, sometimes it's just because you are a little bit out of place.

You are stretching yourself to a place that you've never been before.

And

That's a good thing, right?

So let's just not always think that imposter syndrome is a bad thing.

But one way to sort of move beyond it, besides just faking it and making it, which obviously works if you can't feel it, but is to sort of reflect on what you've done, the challenges and the obstacles you've already overcome.

Because I know I do a terrible job of that.

I'm much better at focusing on what I did wrong, you know, flogging myself for...

things I said that I shouldn't have been ever sitting down and being like, did a good job, Candice.

I mean, that never happens.

That was actually one of the things I did in writing this book.

And that was a really beautiful thing.

And I think, listen, we've all been through our unique challenges.

We're all human.

And if you can't think of the things that you've overcome, ask a friend or maybe start writing them down because those are the building blocks to confidence.

It's so true.