Lydia Fenette

And so I've had to learn what to do when I get on stage and that happens.

And now if there's no microphone, no problem.

I know exactly what to do because it's happened to me so many times.

But the first time it happened to me, I was not competent and it was a disaster.

I cried for the entire evening afterwards.

After I left, I sort of crawled out of there with nothing but shame.

But the bottom line is I didn't die.

I survived and I went back and did it again.

And again and again.

And that's where that competency piece, as you said, is such a huge part of confidence because you've learned how to do something.

You've spent the time learning how to do it.

And it gives you the confidence to try more and to take more on.

Yes, I completely agree with that on every level.

And I think that anytime you have a business, for people out there who own their own business, I give this amazing example in my book of a friend of mine during COVID who was an artist and was so paralyzed with fear about money during COVID as many people were.

She was thinking to herself, my art is not in these galleries anymore.

What am I going to do?

She was still creating art by the hand.

Picture after picture after picture, I think it was her outlet during COVID.

But what she'd lost was that confidence in being able to sell it.

And from the outside looking in, nothing had changed for her.