Steph Claire Smith

very challenging subjects and some that she like outwardly say, like, I'm never going to use this in my life, but it gets marked up basically.

And was trying really hard to get a really high enter score, which like each their own, whatever.

But when I mentioned something about being nervous or whatever, she said to me, yeah, but you've picked all of the easy subjects, so you've got nothing to worry about.

And at the time, I certainly laughed it off and was like, yeah, I have.

But then I was like, I really just picked the subjects that I like and that I'm good at.

But then what happened was I really struggle in exams and I performed really well in all of those subjects all year, but in some of my best subjects really didn't do very well at all in my exams.

And therefore, like, even though I wasn't going for a particular enter school or anything like that, my results made me feel like, oh, you picked the easy subjects and you still didn't do good in them.

And it just, honestly, it was like the base of me just, okay, I'm just like not very intelligent.

And yeah.

So it's, yeah, it's just, I feel like those years particularly were

really, and I think now as a parent, really worries me at how a simple, sometimes not even meaning to be insulting, can really start an insecurity in someone.

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...