EPISODE · Sep 24, 2025 · 38 MIN
69 | Optimizing Your Life For Confidence
from Ambition Without Compromise · host Monique R. Shields
⚡️Click Here To Text Monique!👉🏾 Interested in learning more about Monique's group coaching experience CLAIMED? Click this link to join the interest list and we will email you the details ASAP.This week's episode is all about confidence! After months of reflection, Monique shares her insights on why we must prioritize optimizing for confidence in a world that often undermines it.Through relatable scenarios from her coaching practice, Monique illustrates how fear and uncertainty can hold us back from pursuing our true potential. She emphasizes the importance of community and support in building confidence, highlighting how being witnessed in our struggles can lead to breakthroughs. From transitioning to full-time entrepreneurship to navigating family dynamics, Monique provides actionable insights for reclaiming our confidence and taking bold steps forward.If you’re looking to explore the intricacies of confidence and how to cultivate it in your life, this episode is a must-listen. GEMS DROPPED“Confidence is that feeling you have when you feel on. When you feel maybe not ready, but ready enough. When you feel like, I'm gonna take this first step regardless of how I feel. That's what I like to think of as confidence. And I think sometimes we confuse confidence for certainty. They're not the same thing. And I think we're often waiting on certainty before we can tell ourselves that we are confident and it's really the illusion of certainty.”“I've just recognized that the world the world is coming for me in a really specific way, especially as a woman of color. And I have got to do everything in my power to optimize for my confidence. Not just because feeling confident feels good, but because it costs me to not feel confident. There's a massive cost to us feeling stuck, because what do we do when we're not confident? We stay where we are. Stagnation thrives off of our lack of confidence.”“We've lived life long enough to look back and see sometimes we have this negativity bias where we only see the mistakes or the missteps that we feel like we've had or the lost opportunities. But when we're really honest with ourselves, we've done so many things well. We've done so many things with integrity and with courage and with creativity. So much creativity. And so to give ourselves that moment, to have it reflected back to us, again, a confident confidence booster.““What it means to have the support, the vetted, skilled, appropriate support for where you are in life, where you are in work, to have that support to bring you back into yourself, it's priceless. It's actually priceless.” “We cannot afford to get stuck. Especially now, the world is really showing us, we cannot afford to get stuck. And I tell you, the fastest way to get stuck is to get isolated.”STAY IN TOUCHCome and follow me on Instagram @moniquershields and I would love your feedback so send an email to [email protected].
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⚡️Click Here To Text Monique! 👉🏾 Interested in learning more about Monique's group coaching experience CLAIMED? Click this link to join the interest list and we will email you the details ASAP. This week's episode is all about confidence! After months of reflection, Monique shares her insights on why we must prioritize optimizing for confidence in a world that often undermines it. Through relatable scenarios from her coaching practice, Monique illustrates how fear and uncertainty can hold us ...
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