I Had the Perfect Life… So Why Did I Feel Like I Was Disappearing? With Jane Green

Jane Green is an 18-time New York Times bestselling author with more than 10 million books in print. She also writes the hugely popular “Dear Jane” column as the Daily Mail’s agony aunt.In this podcast, Jane talks to me about confidence, identity, and what happens when you become successful before you believe you deserve it.She speaks about the runaway success of her novel Jemima J, the ‘persona’ she adopted as her career took off, and how pretending to be someone she wasn’t nearly cost her everything.She speaks openly about people-pleasing, shame and status. And the moment the life she’d built came crashing down.This experience forced her to ask herself:Who would you be if you stopped caring what anyone else thought of you?This episode explores how confidence, clarity and self-trust grow when you lean in to your true self.In this episode, we explore:* How loss and change can strip you back to what matters* What it really means to know your value* Why confidence is built through action: certainty is not a pre-requisiteAnd so much more…If you want to help me get the word out, liking, following, restacking, sharing, rating, reviewing etc makes a huge difference. We’re on apple, spotify and youtube. You can also share this episode easily using the button below.To hear more from Jane, you can read her substack here and get her books here.This episode was produced by my amazing husband. It’s a job he never knew he wanted! If you’d like to support the making of future episodes, you can buy him a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/rosiedallingIf you’d like to learn more about my confidence program for senior leaders, The Boost, you can find us here.Enjoy the episode - and tell me in the comments what you think.Rosie Get full access to In Confidence at inconfidencepod.substack.com/subscribe