Dec 14, 2023
It can be easy to think “I’m just not a confident person”
But confidence isn’t something you have to be born with.
Like any other skill, you can practice behaviors to grow that
skill.
Our guest today is Emily Jaenson, a keynote speaker, host
of the hit podcast Leadership is Female, and
co-founder of The Assist Group a collective of
experienced sports professionals ready to step in and provide
sales, marketing & leadership consulting.
Emily has an impressive resume in sports and thought leadership,
but at one time she was too shy to even order a pizza. She
shares her journey leaving her small town to attend university
where she realized she needed to level up and that could only be
accomplished with confidence! She pushed through one
uncomfortable situation after another taking them as opportunities
to grow and even take on leadership roles helping others grow.
One way Emily has been able to help others grow is with her TEDx
talk “Six behaviors to increase your
confidence” which has been viewed more than 3 million
times. Emily discusses how the TEDx talk was the culmination
of years of knowledge, experience, and interviews from her podcast
distilled into an incredibly impactful twelve-minute talk.
The talk was so impactful that corporations began to reach out to
her to deliver that message to their employees. We learn how
she took this opportunity to grow her business, going on the
offense creating a website, networking, and developing a pitch to
take her content to the world instead of waiting for it to come to
her.
We wrap up our conversation with Emily giving examples from her
career on the behaviors others can practice to get through tough
times, expand their comfort zone, and ultimately grow their
confidence!
Three Key Takeaways:
· Once you have content out in the
world you can’t sit and wait for the clients to come to you.
You need to network and take the content to the people who need it
most.
· People tend to believe you are born
with confidence or you’re not. However, confidence is a
skill. It can be taught and learned.
· Confidence is competence. And
you gain competence through curiosity.