🚀✨Step into the Confidence Accelerator! Secure your place for a 5-week leadership transformation starting Friday 31st October. Spots are limited so act now - https://www.balanceinstitute.com/driveWhat if your most trusted career strategy—collect more proof—has been the very thing keeping you from real confidence? We dig into the hidden gap between competence and confidence and explain why high achievers feel like imposters despite glowing resumes, promotions, and degrees. Drawing on years of coaching women at every level, we unpack the early conditioning that links safety to perfection and people-pleasing, and we show how that wiring turns us into validation seekers who outsource worth to gold stars and inbox zero.From there, we explore the cost of living on proof: over-preparation, constant availability, and the slow erosion of self-trust. You’ll hear a candid story about chasing praise in the smallest corners of life and the sobering realisation that external approval dries up as you rise. That’s the turning point—shifting from certainty to courage, from performance metrics to inner measures. We offer a practical way forward with the Confidence Compass: identity, worth, boundaries, voice, regulation, and competence. Each point acts as a doorway back to self-trust so you can make clean decisions, hold firm lines, and act before anyone hands you permission.Expect simple, usable steps: naming your skills without minimising, choosing one boundary and holding it through discomfort, slowing your responses to decouple speed from value, and regulating your body so you can choose rather than react. The result is a rebalanced life where competence earns respect and confidence grants freedom—the freedom to back yourself without another certificate, to say no without guilt, and to move through uncertainty with steadier nerves.If this conversation resonates, share it with a friend who needs the reminder that she already knows enough. And if our show supports you, tap follow, leave a quick review, and tell us: which point of the compass will you strengthen this week?Thank you for joining us today on the Balance and Beyond Podcast. We're so glad you carved out this time for yourself!If you’re keen to dive deeper into our world, here are our socials where you can discover more about the toolkit that has helped thousands of women create a life of balance. Website: www.balanceinstitute.comPodcast Website: https://www.balanceinstitute.com/podcastEmail: [email protected]: https://au.linkedin.com/in/stonejoanneFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/betterbalanceinstitute/Instagram: @betterbalanceinstitute Thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you next time on the Balance & Beyond Podcast!

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