Episode 60
Why “Fake It Till You Make It” Fails and What Builds Real Confidence
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In this episode of Career Clarity Unlocked, Career Coach Theresa White reveals why “fake it till you make it” is keeping professionals stuck, and what to do instead. If you’ve ever felt like you’re performing confidence instead of living it, this conversation breaks down the real roots of confidence: self-worth, self-trust, and authentic self-expression.
Theresa walks you through her proven framework for building confidence from the inside out, using a powerful tree analogy to explain how confidence grows (and why most quick fixes fail). You’ll learn how your early experiences shape your beliefs, how to rebuild trust in yourself, and how to show up with clarity in your career—without pretending to be someone you’re not.
🎧 What You’ll Learn:
- Why quick-fix confidence career advice doesn’t work
- How to rebuild your self-worth and self-trust from the ground up
- What “embodied confidence” actually feels like
- How your childhood patterns may still affect your confidence at work
- Two powerful case studies of clients who built real confidence through career clarity
- How to move through rejection without collapsing your self-esteem
📍Episode Guide:
00:00 Introduction to Career Clarity Unlocked
00:39 The Importance of Confidence in Your Career
01:19 The Tree Analogy of Confidence
02:33 Unpacking the Layers of Confidence
02:50 The Impact of Childhood Experiences on Confidence
04:44 Building Self-Trust and Authentic Confidence
07:42 The Problem with Surface-Level Confidence Advice
09:46 Understanding and Embracing Your Beliefs
15:22 The Role of Self-Worth in Career Confidence
22:28 Strengthening Self-Trust for Lasting Confidence
27:06 Embracing and Moving Through Rejection
27:54 Building Self-Trust and Confidence
28:35 Real-Life Confidence Example
29:56 Strengthening Confidence Through Practice
35:27 Aligning Body and Mind for Authentic Confidence
38:22 Case Study: Career Change Challenges
43:34 Case Study: Building Confidence from the Ground Up
51:42 Career Change Masterclass
52:52 Final Career Tips
If you're done performing and ready to feel confident in your own skin, this one’s for you.
🎓 Free career resources to support your career clarity & confidence:
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- [12 Days of Career Goals] → www.careerbloomcoaching.com/12-Days-of-Career-Goals
- [Impact-Driven Job Guide] → www.careerbloomcoaching.com/Impact-Driven-Job-Guide
💼 Services:
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Connect with Theresa White:
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Transcript
You're certainly not the only one who doesn't feel confident, always from the inside out, and I'm taking small steps to grow this over time. But I truly believe this is a lifelong journey for most of us. Specifically when it comes to your career or a job search, so much comes down to your confidence because when you go into an interview or talk to your manager or ask for a promotion, if you don't believe in yourself, how are you going to convince others that they should believe in yourself?
fidence is hugely important, [:If you are watching this episode on YouTube or any of the other live streaming platforms, you'll be able to see the image that I'm showing you on the screen right now. But even if not, don't worry. Just picture a tree and at the bottom of the tree, other roots and the roots, that's our self-worth. That's what grounds us into who we are.
see. That's our posture, our [:And that's when I say I'm faking it. Well, when I learned to fake it really well of appearing confidence, but not actually having any solid foundation beneath that, but it is. Not my fault that I did that, because that's not where most of the common advice comes from. And to me it is so backwards. It is not lasting, it's not real, and it doesn't truly, truly work.
So what I wanna unpack with you in this episode are those four layers, the roots, the trunk, the branches, and then the leads. And why? Starting the leaves and fak it till you make it actually doesn't work, and it takes so much energy and burns you out. And then we're gonna talk about how childhood experiences can affect your confidence even 50 years later as an adult.
alk you through how to build [:I am getting paid to do this. And if just this introduction of my new podcast episode has you thinking, oh yeah, I need help with my confidence, I wanna quickly invite you to my free upcoming masterclass, start your career change in three simple steps. It's happening next week, and if you have no clue what you want to do next, professionally, this is literally meet for you.
. As a bonus, you will get a [:This episode today is gonna go deep. We're not just talking tips and tricks and surface level strategies but really shifting our approach to how we see confidence and building our confidence. And I really invite you to stay with me through the entire episode because this is gonna be the most important thing you can do.
Finding a way to build your confidence. Start believing in yourself. 'cause then you can go after the things you truly want. By the end of this episode, I hope that you understand layer by layer what confidence truly is and how to grow it from the inside out.
ensation when we are walking [:In those scenarios, our confidence is really tied to a lot of things like our mood, our circumstances, and it can rise and fall depending on that day. Something goes wrong, someone says the wrong thing and it dips, and that's not what true confidence is. A true confidence comes from the inside out and stays no matter how the circumstances around you shift.
I wanna bring back the image of the tree I shared in the introduction.
So going back to that image of a tree, when we look at the leaves, right? When we look at a tree, the first thing we see are the leaves. That is the outward expression. That is when we see someone who. We perceive as confident. They speak up, they own the room, they're taking action, they're holding eye contact.
o is actually the feeling of [:And then below that are the roots. That's our self-worth, and that's the deep belief that you are inherently valuable, lovable, and enough, regardless of any of the external performance and outcomes. And I really believe that for many of us, our challenge with confidence starts there at the roots. That root layer is often not addressed in how to be confident.
worth, about our belonging, [:Everything that built from there is going to be fragile. , So many of us carry those fractures from early life experiences into adulthood, and that's why in this episode, I wanna go deep and start talking about what does the root repair work look like? That when we didn't grow up feeling worthy, lovable, safe, capable, acceptable, how can we repair that so we can grow the confidence and the self-worth and the self-trust?
That we're also deserving of feeling.
y pretty easy for me to fake [:I've done this all my life and I'm hiding so much of who I am when I do that. And actually that makes me really sad that when I show up as confident, you see a mask of me that hides a lot of what is underneath that. This actually doesn't feel like my truth, and that is because my self worth the roots and the self trust my trunk aren't steady enough.
If that resonates with you, you might notice that. It just doesn't feel fully authentic. If maybe the body language feels forced, you feel really stressed, it takes out a lot of your energy to maintain that appearance of confidence. And if we go back to our image of the tree, it feels like we're taping paper leaves to a tree that doesn't have any roots.
And when the wind picks up, everything falls off.
make eye contact, speak with [:without that self trust, even if you temporary belief, I'm confident I'm showing up confidently when there are challenges, criticism, they stout you. Then all of that crumbles in an interview. They ask you an off question. That makes everything crumble because we don't have that internal safety net yet.
such a oversimplification of [:And by all means, if changing limiting beliefs is something that works for you, that is amazing, go for it. The more power to you. This is for me personally, it does not resonate. It makes me really mad when people say like, oh, if you don't feel confident, there's a limiting belief and we're just gonna have to replace it.
This an empowering belief and problem fixed. It's like there are sticky notes in my brain and we just take one off, slap another one on. Problem solved. It does not make any sense to me because those beliefs aren't just beliefs. They are actually neurons in our brain and beliefs live in our whole system.
se beliefs for a really good [:Maybe those parts haven't realized that we are growing and evolving and have more autonomy and agency as we get older. But that part still holds onto the belief because it's really important and it wants to protect us. If someone tells me just get rid of that limiting relief, that's like telling my system like, oh, just get rid of that part that's trying so hard to protect you.
And if I tell my parts like, oh, go away. And guess what? They're just gonna become louder and louder and louder. Like, have you tried to tell your toddler, like, oh, just go away. I don't wanna deal with you right now. Doesn't work. They become louder and louder. They want attention
abotage us, but because they [:What works for me is. And if you're familiar with internally family systems or you might have had heard me talking about it in the past, and that's the lens I'm approaching that with and no worries if you're not familiar.
I'll do actually a separate episode on that coming up. But once I actually spend time with the part that holds that belief and I try to understand it and get to know it and understand why it holds that belief and build trust with that part, then that part actually becomes open to evolving. But it's never about getting rid of it.
ituations, all of that fades [:And then we often conclude of well, if I were stronger or smarter or whatever, I could have made these beliefs stick. And now we actually, instead of eliminating the first problem, we created two problems. We still have the original challenge, and now on top of that, we are feeling shame or guilt, or we are failing because we can't fix that problem.
So. From that deeper perspective, that is absolutely not a failure. Imagine the tree, right? If the tree has very brittle roots, the trunk is like a paper stick, and the branches are very, very thin and brittle. Just sticking on new leaves just does not solve our problem. If a wind blow comes, it still knocks over the tree.
beautiful tree here one more [:Then there comes the trunk, the self-trust that gives us the stability in uncertainty. Next, the branches. The feelings of feeling confident. That's the emotional state that we can access more and more often when the foundation is set and then come the leaves, our natural overflow of what others see.
this all figured out, and I [:One day I think I'm at the branches and the next day I'm right back. Like, oh, actually I'm missing all the route. So you are not alone in this work, and I don't believe that this will ever be completed. And we have this beautiful tree and we never have to go back to any of this work. So this is gonna be a lifelong path for all of us, and that's okay.
That's life. So let's now really dig deep into the roots, the self-worth, because that's the foundation of all of this. The roots in this framework that I'm sharing with you are what gives us the permission to feel confident because we believe that we are worthy of it.
nces and the tools they have [:And I am not a perfect parent parent whatsoever. . Because there is no such thing as a perfect parent, we grow up caring beliefs like my value comes from pleasing others, or I must hide parts of myself to be accepted. A big one for me.
If I fail, I lose love. Or it's not safe to relax, danger can come anytime and there's a million different beliefs or that might have shown up for you as you were growing up. And as I said, I don't want to refer to them as limiting beliefs. I really wanna refer to them as lift truth for certain parts of you.
For me, it was a truth. I must hide parts of myself to be acceptable. That wasn't a limiting belief. A part of my brain just came out up with or pulled out of thin air and be like, let's start believing this because it's so fun. No, that was a survival strategy. As a child, you are dependent on your parents.
iterally not survive without [:And the first step is to become aware of those parts that carry these beliefs or those survival strategies and build a relationship with those parts. And I promise you, I'm gonna do an IIFS episode because it's something that I'm so passionate about. And then I can go much deeper into how I am doing this work.
So once we start allowing those beliefs to exist and become aware of them without trying to just be like, let's push this away. Belief identified. Let's let's push it away. Instead of doing that, of okay, this belief is here. It makes a lot of sense why it is here. Let me understand it. And sitting with those uncomfortable feelings, emotions as not my strength.
t of people don't like doing [: awful feelings that we once [:Let's say there was a time where we felt deeply unloved and that is the exile that carries that wound and that pain from it. And then a protector comes and it was like, I'm gonna figure out how we can never, ever feel like that.
How we, what I can do to make sure you never, ever feel like that. And then I'm like, okay, if I shrink myself and become really small, don't take up any space. That is gonna be my strategy. So we don't ever have to feel this terrible, terrible, awful feeling again. So that's the role of our protectors. And then we acknowledge their role and thank them for how they're actually helping us.
And when we ask them what are they afraid of would happen if they didn't do their job? That's how we can meet and build trust with them.
terrible feeling I once felt [:That's when they can. Slowly let go of the strategy that might not work for us anymore in this moment. And that's why I love IFS so much because it's not about changing the belief, it helps the part release, the weight of its experience
when we do this work of building self-worth. It is about acknowledging our parts with compassion and curiosity, not pushing them away, but be passionate and curious about why does this part not want you to take up space? Why does this part want you to shrink? Why does this part protect you from going for that promotion?
Because it wants to protect you from failure.
better one, but because our [:And that's the foundation we need for our confidence to grow. Before we move on to the trunk of the self-trust if you're now realizing like, oh yeah, I need a lot more of this mindset shift. I wanna go deeper into the self-worth, and I'm obsessed with this, I love talking about it.
And if you're like, I actually I need an actual plan. I wanna give you something really beautiful and it's the bonus I'm offering at this round for my free masterclass. So my masterclass is starting your career change in three simple steps. The bonus I'm gonna be sharing this time, this everyone who joins Life is a guided exercise I develop to help you deepen your self worth.
So if you wanna build those [:So gonna talk about this more later, but check the show notes for the link to my free masterclass, because I promise you don't want to miss it. Now let's move on to the trunk. That gives you the safety to feel confident. So now let's say the roots. We've worked with this and we believe, yep, I deserve to feel confident
s does that mean that you'll [:This is something that I really struggle with, but it starts with keeping our own promises. Mm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I put on my calendar self-care time, and then I'm like, oh, actually I'm too busy. I'm gonna just skip that this week and maybe do it next week, and I'm already know I'm not gonna do. That's the opposite of keeping our own promises.
So here's a big reminder to myself and anyone who else, who struggles with that. Let's start small. And when we tell ourselves we're gonna do something for ourselves, even if it's just like a short walk or a small break or a cup of tea, let's actually follow through on that and that builds an internal, I can count on me feeling.
omes to self-care, I'm like, [:Teresa, Teresa. , so if you just put five minutes on your calendar, because five minutes are more realistic than 30 minutes or an hour, five minutes on the calendar for self-care, and maybe that is just sitting there for five minutes and just thinking what would feel good right now?
What would feel good in my body right now? Would that be standing up, walking around, drinking something, eating something, maybe stretching?
And that's a beautiful starting point. So that is my goal for the next month. I'm gonna put five minutes on my calendar every other day to do this exercise, and I'd love for you to do this with me. So if you're up for the challenge. Send me a DM on LinkedIn or any other platform or an email. You can find my email address in the show notes.
episode, so this is totally [:Okay. Oh my God, this is gonna be awesome. Another step we can take to strengthen our trunk and our self-trust is to pay attention to times where we did something that went well. And it doesn't just have to be the big wins, but it's like a moment where we were calm, or a moment where we allowed ourselves to speak up, own our voice, made a choice that was right for us.
t automatically saying, yes, [:I see, I see you. And then I can make a decision like do I want to say yes or do I want to say no
And also preparing for the what ifs. Because not everything will ever go as planned or as we hope in our lives. There's gonna be setbacks, there's gonna be failures, there's gonna be things that just don't go well. And when we don't have self-trust that we can handle that, then we tend to just avoid all those situation.
Makes sense. Right. So what if we go through the what if scenarios. In a job interview, you apply for a role that's a little bit of a stretch and you're like, oh my God, if I go in the interview and they find out I'm just totally a fake and I'm an imposter and I don't belong to be here , and then you're stopping yourself from even allowing yourself the opportunity to interview for that role because your fear holds you back.
So what if, [:And yes, I'll still keep going because. My roots are there. I deserve to find a career. I love, for example, in this scenario. So I will feel the feelings that come as a rejection and I will move through it and it'll continue on, and that's what builds a self-trust where I'm like, okay, this is not going to destroy me.
It'll be challenging, it will be uncomfortable feelings, but I can trust myself to take care of myself and work through it.
rd part. To our branches, we [:You speak and your voice feels strong and clear. You make a choice without second guessing. Like that sense of I got that. That others can feel and see in you. And there's a thing. Okay, I'm gonna share this with you. I almost don't want us. Say it because I feel embarrassed of showing up so confidently.
But I'm gonna share this with you anyway. I was recently at Mastermind in Toronto with Diana Wiki Chan, which was the most amazing week ever. Oh my God. I left every second of it, and I was in an environment where I felt really confident and I was asked to share with others to walk through my sales funnel.
talk about it. I felt really [:So huge win. In that moment, I really felt confidence. I didn't fake it.
Theresa: I was just seeing and expressing how I felt in that moment, it's felt embodied. One of the reasons I knew that I was really feeling truly confident in that moment was because my system wasn't bracing for danger or oh my God, like I'll stand up there and, but what if they ask a difficult question? I don't know the answer. None of that were even going through my mind. I was just like, oh, I know my stuff.
some action steps of how you [:I felt truly supported by everyone in that space. So what are those low stakes environments where you feel safe? Are those risks? Your friends, your family, as a coach, a mentor, maybe it's a community of other women, whatever it is.
What are the moments where he can show up confident without there being any major consequences, without there being people in the room that are likely to judge you, and then use those environments to allow your nervous system to experience what it feels like to succeed, to speak up, to act boldly.
when you feel that pause and [:Actually, when I think back to that moment in Toronto that I just shared with you, I can access that feeling of oh yeah, this is what confidence feels to me. And then it can , before I enter a situation where I might become a little less confident, I can tap into, be like, oh yes, I got this.
ally truly feeling confident [:If you're thinking about a job interview, most of us experienced job of interview of like fight, flight, and freeze of I just gotta be perfect. I've gotta put on this performance. But true confidence. When we're not stuck in this, but we show up as ourselves and feel confident that we are enough, we can handle this.
We've got what it takes. We deserve to be here. And again, we are not gonna be like that all time, all day, every day at every, in every given situation. But when we can tap into moments like that, celebrate those, notice when you feel confident, even briefly, and acknowledge it. And just make a mental note like, yeah, this is what it feels like to feel confident.
Sure, steady, secure. And then every time you recognize it, this reinforces the state of confidence and allows you to more and more tap into that.
he roots are our self-worth, [:But in reality, it's really the last thing that flows on top of the roots, the trunk, and the branches. So what specifically are the leaves? The leaves are one, your body language, standing tall, open posture, steady eye contact, your communication style, a clear voice, relaxed pace, speaking with conviction, and also behavioral choices, taking initiative, setting boundaries, sharing your ideas.
l these things that leads us [:And as I shared before. Yes, you can fake it till you make it. You can mimic confident body language without ever feeling confident, but it does take so much energy and it doesn't feel as authentic or true to who you are. That as it could feel, because if the roots in the trunk aren't there, the leaves tend to world under stress.
e expressions flow naturally [:That constant performing is extremely exhausting. You might not even be aware of how much energy it takes from you. I wasn't for the longest time till you step out of it and you're like, oh my God. That is so exhausting to be who I'm not all day, every day. So in order to strengthen the leaves , it's. One, aligning body and mind. So when you walk into a situation, just take a moment to ground yourself so that your body matches your inner steadiness. 'Cause that doesn't mean you never get anxious or nervous, but that means you know, you can trust yourself and you wanna come back to that belief like, I'm here, I'm grounded, I've got this.
rt speaking up, sharing your [:You try leading a smaller meeting before pitching to a larger audience. And then you also wanna practice with your posture, your tone, your pacing, and find what feels authentic to you, not just what's looking confident according to books or social media that we see. It has to feel authentic, you have to play around with it. Find okay, how do I stand? How do I talk when I feel confident and grounded?
And then when you have moments where you feel confident, take note of the things that show up, how you stand, how you spoke, how you breathed, and then be like, oh, okay. When I'm naturally confident, this is how that feels inside my body. And then tap into those memories in future situations.
And. Just [:People feel drawn to you. So if you can step into that, embody it, and then just be who you are, that is the most powerful version of yourself that you can become. All right. I wanna share with you two examples so you can see that in action of how it looks like when we build confidence from the ground up or if we start at the top.
Before we get there, I wanna do a quick recap here., We started with the roots. That's the self-worth. That's the deep belief that you are valuable, lovable, and enough.
t the trunk, the self-trust. [:Now, I wanna walk through an example of a woman who wants to make a career change.
And we're gonna do the typical, what a lot of people do, and not judging anyone because I've done this too. Starting with the leaves. So let's just say there we have a successful female professional. She's been successful for years, well respected, well paid. She's really good at what she does.
y? I am good at it, but it's [:This was me seven years ago. So on her lunch break, if she's has the fortunate day when she gets a lunch break, you Google science. It's time to start a career change how to find your passionate 45. And then the advice that comes is like networking, personal branding, how to look confident in interviews, get rid of your limiting beliefs, and then.
We start with the Leaf's first advice. So it's the advice of appear confident, stand tall, make eye contact, speak for certainty, sell your transferable skills. So she practices her confident posture in the mirror and rehearses strong answers to interview question.
So she's told that her problem is the limiting belief that no one wants to hire women over 45 for exciting roles. And instead of believing that she finds the opposite belief and says, I'm in high demand for my experience and leadership. She repeats it every morning. And by the way, if this is what you're doing, please keep doing it.
thing in addition. We'll get [:What if I choose wrong? Do I really want this? Do I even know what I want? Feeling nervous talking about leaving her job. They'll think I'm running away from something not towards something. In interviews, feeling like she has to fake her confidence even though she practiced her answers. And all of that happens because uncertainty.
So a career change is huge. Uncertainty that wakes up our deepest fears and no amount of posture and communication skills can really fully mask all those fears that we bring with him. And then the old beliefs of can snap back easily. So she might apply for a few role and then gets one rejection and then two, we decided to move forward with other candidates.
ll sticky note, mantras come [:Other people change their mindset and works for them. Why can't I? And it makes it even harder when we get so hard on ourselves. So what are the challenges in this scenario? One, her confident posture and answers crumble in the situation where she feels genuinely unsure because her body still interprets these moments as risky.
And her beliefs weren't random. Her fear about age and employability isn't just a false thought. It's built from stories that she heard from friends, from social media all the time. She's been overlooked for opportunities. All of us have experienced that and we are, they are stored in our nervous system.
t role in previous meetings. [:Because she hasn't done the deeper work of knowing she's valuable, regardless of the job title and how others see her, a rejection or a job offer, they don't change herself first. She knows she's inherently worthy and lovable, and belongs. And then the trunk, the self-trust. She hasn't built a solid track record of relying on herself uncertainty, where she can really trust her own system that I've got this.
nfidence are really fragile, [:People tell me, why is it not working? And it that can come down to, because quick fixes sometimes don't solve the root problems. And then you might blame yourself of I guess I'm just not good enough, or I'm not good enough at this, at this mindset shift. And again, this piles on the shame on top of the original issues and often makes us feel even smaller.
So let's look at the opposite. Same person. And we're gonna start building roots, trunk branches, leaf up approach. So same person, she's 45, she's successful on paper. She wakes up with that heavy sense and dread about work. Ugh, I don't wanna do this anymore. I don't know what else I could possibly be doing, but I really don't wanna keep doing this.
t a new job, she starts with [:She reflects on who she's outside of work, her values, her skills, her quality, that she's proud of having that. Aren't tied to her role or achievements. And she starts with small daily practices of writing down three ways she showed up for herself, for others each day, even if they're tiny, even if it's, I sat for one minute and felt my body and just became aware of what would feel good in my body, and I took a sip of water.
Wind right there. And then she started to also work with these old wounds. So she notices that how her fears about age and employability break and memories of being overlooked early in her career instead of ignoring them and pushing them away. I'm like, oh my God, this was 20 years ago. She takes time to acknowledge them.
Yeah, that [:And then the third part is so important. She reconnects with people in communities where she feels seen unvalued without having to prove herself of friends, local women, leadership cycle mentor, a coaching community. And when I go back to the example I shared with you earlier about when I was in Toronto and felt really confident speaking in this room.
u want to find for yourself. [:Then she works on self-trust. Which is keeping those small promises to herself. She tells herself, I'm gonna take a 10 minute walk every day after they bring the kids to bed, and she follows through on that. She promised herself, I wanna update my resume by Friday, and she works on it for 15 minutes a day and actually accomplishes that.
She handles minor challenges without defaulting to people pleasing or avoidance. And each time she follows through, she kindly tells herself, see, I can count on myself. I've got this. And then she tries out some low stakes exploratory actions, like she contacts an informal coffee chat to learn more about a different industry or different roles.
s. And then she really takes [:If an interview goes badly, what do I do next? She writes it out and having those plans in place actually really reduces the fears. It's okay, I'm gonna. Allow myself, because that's the hardest part of a job search, right? You see a job that you're excited about. You put so much time into writing your application, updating your resume, submitting that application, trying to reach out to people there, getting an interview, spending days preparing for the interview, and then getting rejected.
Of course, you had gotten your hopes up it. There is no other way you have to in order to put in all that work and it freaking hurts when you get that. No. That they went with another candidate and no, good meaning, comments of it wasn't meant to be, or the perfect role for you is waiting somewhere else.
nt because it just sucks and [:Maybe you'll be like, okay, I'm just gonna spend a day on the weekend, binging movies, eating comfort food. Or maybe it's okay, I'm just gonna do something that just feels really good. I'm gonna go to the spa for a day. Or I am just gonna spend a day reading a book. It doesn't have to be anything huge, but it's something where you're like, okay, I'm gonna allow myself to feel all the feelings and here are three things I'm gonna do my for myself.
book, or listen to a podcast.[:And having that plan on paper might be like, okay, well even if the worst case scenario happens, it'll suck, but I'll be okay. I have a plan what I'll do, and that can help you take those next steps. And as she's doing all of that work, she's starting to feel the difference. So now she can actually picture herself thriving in a new role without any knots in her stomach.
She walks into a network of conversation, curious instead of desperate to prove herself, and then uncertainty shows up. She knows how to calm herself before moving forward. And of course, it's not gonna be 24 7, but it's coming more often, more genuinely, and more easily. And now her outward expression, her posture, her tone, her body language.
openness. She maintains good [:She knows that interviews are her two-way street and she's interviewing them as much as they are interviewing her. And if she faces rejection, she'll still feel that sting. But the difference is it doesn't shake the entire foundation. She still knows she's deserving.
She still knows that she's going to be okay. Yes, it sucks, but she knows her worth and her and trusts her ability to find the right fit. I hope that those two scenarios really showed you the difference of starting with the leaves or starting with the roots
in this Roots first approach, it's the confidence that's growing and it's not the confidence that's being performed, and that's why it's so much steady, more believable, more sustainable, and again, more authentic.
biggest difference for you. [:I hope that this episode inspired you to find some areas where you can build your self. First, your self. Trust yourself confidence, and remember that confidence isn't something you have to fake. It's something you grow and it takes time and hard work. But when you build it from the roots in the trunk, everything else, the feelings and expressions naturally follow, and the confidence that you wish you had or looking for is possible.
It's actually already inside of you. Then you start nurturing those roots. So if you are ready to grow your confidence and want to go deeper into that, and actually then confidently make your career move and figure out your next career step, I would love for you to join me for my free Career Change masterclass.
areer Change in three Simple [:It is completely free. It will really give you the tools to start moving to a career that finally feels right. And because we know that all of that work is gonna be beautiful when it comes to your career, career clarity, your personal branding, your job site strategy, but the foundation, the self-worth is gonna be so important, and that's why as a bonus for everyone who shows up alive on the masterclass, you will receive a recording of my guided exercise to deepen yourself worth.
that you're open to taking. [:And please know that you don't have to have all of this figured out today. I by no means have, even though I've been doing this work for a long time, and there's days where you feel like, yes, I am worthy. I can trust myself, and there'll be days where all of this seems to be like dipping down, and that's okay.
and look inward. My wish for [:Professional environments as well that allows you and encourages you and empowers you to come alive and that values exactly. And all of that what you have to offer. Thanks again for joining me on today's episode, and I will see you back here next week on Career Clarity Unlocked.