Lydia Fenette

When you become confident, it's almost a self-fulfilling prophecy because that confidence propels you to try things and not to care so much about the result.

A lot of times, I believe people who've been through really difficult things often have more confidence than people who don't.

Thank you so much, Mike.

I'm delighted to be here.

I believe we're all born with confidence and it's up to us over the course of our life to claim that confidence by putting ourselves outside of the box that we are supposed to be in over the course of our life.

So I don't think that playing by anyone else's rules or necessarily being comfortable all the time is what makes you confident.

I think it,

oftentimes happens from pushing yourself into the places that make you a little uncomfortable, that you learn how much you're capable of.

And it allows you to grow and really grow into the confidence that I believe we all have within us.

I was on book tour for my first book and the word confidence was something that I heard almost every time I had a question and answer session.

So anytime I would get up and say, you know, at the end of a speech, does anyone have any questions?

One of the first questions I would get was always, how are you so confident?

Or,

Where did you become so confident?

Or most often, do you have imposter syndrome?

And if so, how did you get rid of it?

Or how can I get rid of it?

So to answer your question, I think most people don't have it.

Or if they did have it when COVID came along, I think a lot of people lost it.

So this is the time that we all have the opportunity to reclaim it and to claim what we might have had once in our lives that we didn't feel like we had anymore.