As your podcast best friends, we want you all to be living your most confident lives - being proud of who you are, chasing your dreams, fulfilling bucket list items and making incredible memories. However, we know that’s all easier said than done, especially if you’re lacking the courage to believe in yourself.

To help us all get a better grasp on the dynamics involved with self-esteem, we take a deep dive to the root of why you might be lacking confidence to begin with (hint: trauma, parenting, bullying, limiting beliefs, social media - to name a few).

Once we tackle that, we talk about what your comfort zone even is and why it’s important to get out of it occasionally! We share a variety of helpful actions that could help you take a leap of faith whether that’s acknowledging perfectionism, making a list, developing a meditation practice or looking at yourself from a loved one’s perspective.

We really went all in on this episode and hope it offers you valuable insight. Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves and live the life they’ve always wanted!

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REFLECT ON YOUR SELF-ESTEEM

Some questions to consider -
- When we were reading through those, did any factors particularly resonate?
- What was the most negative experience in your life and how do you think that’s impacted you?
- Do you feel supported by your loved ones?
- Do you show up for yourself?
- Are you proud of the person you are becoming?
Some things confident people might say -
- I am not worth less than others
- I don’t fear feedback
- I don’t fear failure
- It doesn’t have to be perfect
- I am skeptical of advertisements telling me I need to change my body or do “xyz thing”to look better. I know they are likely trying to profit off insecurities.
- I know that people's social media pages are just a piece of someone but not their whole being.
- I enjoy trying new things
- I don’t let others decide my goals
- I get to take up space too
- My opinion matters
- I confront challenges
- I know I have good days and bad days but I’m just trying to be a little bit better one day at a time