How to Be Confident As Fu*k

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While confidence is a natural state of being for a lot of people, it is something that you can learn even if it doesn’t come easily to you.</span> <a href= "https://elleruss.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Elle Russ</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, writer and author of Confidence as Fu*k, joins me to talk about what led her to pursue confidence as a career.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are so many different ways to be confident. And for so many confident people, they’re at the top of their game. This doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t pitfalls to having innate confidence and Elle explains what some of these are. We also talk about how you can be confident in one area of your life, such as your career, but not others, such as parenthood.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elle shares about her disability and the shame that she felt when she initially received her lifelong diagnosis. It wasn’t until she started opening up and talking about her disability that her confidence started to grow back. She quickly found out that by taking the power of her shame away that she was able to live a happier and healthier life, exploring the paths she thought she’d never see.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elle explains what some of the things confident people don’t do. From competing to comparing, confident people don’t care what other people are doing, they focus on themselves and their goals. She also tells us what you absolutely need to let go of in order to step into your own confidence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like everyone, Elle has had her share of doubters, downers, and naysayers in her life. While initially, their words of discouragement hurt, she’s learned how to handle these people. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elle’s final piece of advice is about how to make your dreams a reality. Less thinking of the “how” to make it happen, as that’s wh