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Kim Gravel on the Importance of Finding Your Calling and Your Confidence

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In Collecting Confidence , Gravel shares lessons she’s learned from her public successes—including building an empire that spans hosting several QVC shows and episodes as well as a podcast , launching beauty businesses and mentoring young women—and private failures or challenges. Did you have confidence at a younger age?

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Lifestyle Entrepreneur Lewis Howes on the Power of Vulnerability and Authenticity

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Discovering the power of vulnerability As a successful athlete, confidence came easy to Howes—until the wrist injury. Howes realized he’d been leaning on football to harness the limited range of emotions he learned to express as a young man: stoicism or anger. Vulnerability wasn’t an option. I thought my life was over,” he recalls. “I

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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Ellison and Darsy learned that the most challenging (and rewarding) parts of being liveaboards in a relationship had little to do with the logistics of sailing and a lot more to do with life, interpersonal dynamics and developing self-awareness in roughly 350 square feet of space. There are no shortcuts for that.”.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Usually after the oldest heads to the bus stop, the youngest will bobble downstairs, hair frazzling out in about 40 directions, rubbing sleep out of his eyes with balled-up fists and looking as if he’d ask me for coffee if he wasn’t 5. The seed of the idea—to shut up and give thanks more than once every few months —is planted.

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Marathon Training Also Trained My Stress Tolerance—Here’s How

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Learning resilience on the Camino de Santiago My mindset changed this summer when I walked the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with only a backpack. I was building that confidence that Anderson referenced.

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Ep 269: Beth Portesi – Lead Executive Assistant at Fivetran

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Her initial goal was to support a remote lifestyle, a pursuit that rapidly evolved into a remarkable success story. Nova Chief of Staff’s online certification course provides you with the knowledge and confidence you need to stand out on the job.