Steph Claire Smith

You're still shaky when you talk about it.

Yeah.

That one particularly, I think like, because the body stuff I've been able to get over like years ago and work through is

But I think it's probably only been more recently that I've been able to actually see value in what I can bring to like our company and the work that we do and our team and everything like that.

Like I've been on a – that's been a more recent journey I think in not being too hard on myself because I don't have certain strengths that others might have.

Oh, for sure.

I think honestly, for a long time, the part that I struggled with the hardest was like defining myself as, um, like a businesswoman or, um, whatever.

Not so much entrepreneur because I always saw them as like quite creative and I could kind of see myself... Like I could define myself as an entrepreneur.

But when it came to kind of like talking about, you know, running the company with you and stuff like that, that's where I started to like really question all...

walking into a room of other people who do things similar to us, like I just felt like it was rare that I came across someone like me who had the strengths that I did but then also maybe some of the, I don't want to call them weaknesses, but just like just the stuff that they're not so good at.

But that's okay because we can't be good at everything, right?

And I think when we did SBE and I met Sian,

Along with other...

Business owners and business owners.

And wanting to learn about how to write a pitch and all of that sort of stuff and present your business.

So that was the program.

And I was really hesitant to do that because kind of, as I said before, ever doing like a business talk or going to a networking event where I knew I was going to be with like other business leaders and stuff, I would always get so anxious and so nervous because I just knew that the entire time I'd be in my own head thinking,

basically being like you've got nothing to add to this conversation.

Just sit and listen the whole time.

And so at first I remember being like, oh, yeah, like you should do it.