Stop Doubting Yourself: 5 Tips to Boost Your Confidence

Confidence is a skill, and today you are going to learn exactly how to build it.

Mel is one of the leading experts on the topic of confidence and is tapped regularly by the world’s top brands to teach their leaders how to be more confident. 

And in today’s episode, Mel is giving you her step-by-step playbook, the same one that she teaches to leaders around the world, that you can use immediately.

Mel is offering the guide to believing in yourself (for real this time) in 5 simple steps. 

If you have ever wanted to know how to increase your self-confidence and improve self-esteem, this is the episode for you. Whether you want to speak up at work, set boundaries, or stop doubting yourself,  you need to hear this.

This is an encore episode with new and exciting insights from Mel at the top.

If you liked this episode, which was packed with coaching and simple tools to be more confident, you’ll love listening to this one next: How to Read Body Language to Get What You Want: 6 Simple Psychological Tricks to Be More Confident

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In this episode:

• 2:42: Everything you thought you knew about confidence is wrong, here’s why. 
• 7:28: The secret to overcoming doubting yourself and building unstoppable confidence. 
• 12:24: How the #1 neuroscientist defines true confidence. 
• 19:10: Lessons learned from Mel’s 21-minute panic attack on the TEDx stage.
• 22:50: Why waiting to feel confident is holding you back from greatest potential.
• 29:26: The 3 confidence myths keeping you stuck, and the surprising truth that changes everything. 
• 35:04: The 5 simple tools to start building confidence starting today. 
• 50:25: The shocking role that social media plays in building confidence. 
• 57:05: How to overcome self-doubt and claim the confidence you deserve

Resources:

• Get coached by Mel in this powerful motivation episode that you should listen to next: Motivation is Garbage‍
• Forbes: Don’t Fake It ‘Til You Make It: Match Confidence To Competence‍
• Forbes: Use It Or Lose It: The Science Behind Self-Confidence‍
• The New York Times: Practical Ways to Improve Your Confidence (and Why You Should)‍
• Harvard Business Review: To Seem More Competent, Be More Confident‍
• Verywell Mind: How to Be More Confident: 9 Tips That Work‍
• Psychology Today: The Fastest Way to Build Confidence‍
• Child Mind Institute: Social Media and Self-Doubt‍
• Wharton Aresty Institute of Executive Education: Confidence When You Need It Most: Five Rituals for Improved Performance‍
• The New York Times: The Secret to Unshakable Confidence‍
• Nature Communications: Confidence drives a neural confirmation bias‍
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy: Self-Esteem and Social Media Impact‍
• Medical News Today: What is behavioral activation?‍
• Medical Education: Confidence-competence alignment and the role of self-confidence in medical education: A conceptual review‍
• Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology: The Neurobiology of Confidence: From Beliefs to Neurons