Increasing Confidence Through Curiosity | Emily Jaenson | 537

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.