Catt Small

And yeah, I think the mindset shift is really the thing that I would wanna underscore for people.

It's the number one thing that I see when I am also teaching in the course.

And when I mentor people, I think a lot of people

I wish the industry worked this way.

They wish that, for example, their manager was able to really coach them and they wish that they were just told what to do.

But the reality is that one of the reasons that I have been consistently successful is that I've pretty much had to trust in myself and

figure out how to kind of build my intuition so that I trust that I will just figure it out.

And you will be able to partner with the people around you and you can communicate and be transparent about the decisions that you're making.

But the more that you

trust yourself and put your perspective forward obviously in a respectful way that's when people see oh wow like this person's a leader so if you want to be a leader and if you want to be at the staff level like you do have to step into that it is really uncomfortable at first it's really overwhelming and honestly like i was in the room with these directors and i was like y'all trust me like

That's weird.

Like, I'm, I still felt like a, you know, like a 12 year old.

I was like, I'm a teenager.

Like, why am I here?

But in fact, you know, I was like, 30.

But yeah, I think that, you know, it's very normal and natural to feel.

not trust your intuition, but over time, you know, once you get to that senior level, you do have a fair amount that you can pull on and you need to start making that move.

So yeah, I would really, I really just recommend, you know, considering how to build your own confidence essentially and,

in your work and your experience and I do talk about part of this as well kind of like battling that humility and like how you make that shift in the book but yeah that's a big that's one of the biggest things when I reflect on my career that I'm really proud of myself for doing.

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