We get asked by parents like my kids just not confident, how do I develop the self confidence in my kids?
Speaker AIt's a really big thing.
Speaker AAnd how do you actually develop self confidence in yourself?
Speaker ALike we talk about self doubts, we talk about imposter syndrome, we talk about these things that keep us debilitated, but what are the things that give us that drive to believe in our own abilities and then start to take action?
Speaker ABecause this is key to whatever that we're going to achieve in life.
Speaker AWhether we're trying to build a business, whether we're trying to help our kids chase their dreams, we have to have that level of self confidence.
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Speaker AMy name is Kate Witherspoon.
Speaker AI'm the founder of Live Performance Academy.
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Speaker ASo for 45 minutes I've been sitting here even procrastinating.
Speaker ANot so much procrastinating, but figuring out how I'm going to start this podcast episode.
Speaker AHow am I going to introduce this podcast episode?
Speaker AI've done about three or four retakes and it's just a case of jira.
Speaker AI'm just going to do it and just see how it goes because it's actually going to give context to the actual the podcast episode of death.
Speaker ASo it's about how overcome imposter syndrome and self doubts.
Speaker ANow this is something I've really struggled with my whole life, but I know it's a big thing that a lot of other people do struggle with as well do talk with a lot of people on a daily basis.
Speaker AWe have where we train youth athletes and this is one main things that we get asked by parents like my kids just not confident, how do I develop self confidence in my kids?
Speaker AIt's a really big thing.
Speaker AAnd how do you actually develop self confidence in yourself?
Speaker ALike we talk about self doubts, we talk about imposter syndrome, we talk about these things that keep us debilitated.
Speaker ABut actually what are the things that actually give us that drive to believe in our abilities and then start critique action?
Speaker ABecause this is absolutely key to whatever that we're going to achieve in life.
Speaker AWhether we are trying to build a business, whether we're trying to help our kids chase their dreams.
Speaker AWe have to have that level of self confidence.
Speaker ASo we're going to talk about three key things here.
Speaker AThe first one, we're talking about imposter syndrome and self doubt because that's the big, the big problem.
Speaker AWe're going to talk about ice baths and cold water exposure.
Speaker ATrust me, there's a theme to this.
Speaker AI will, I promise you there's an actual theme to this.
Speaker AAnd then we're talking about the main strategy to get over self doubts and imposter syndrome.
Speaker ANow if you're watching this on video, you will see that quotations on imposter syndrome.
Speaker AIf you're listening to this, you wouldn't have seen that.
Speaker ABut that's kind of what I'VE just done.
Speaker ASo we talk about imposter syndrome like it's some form of clinical disorder, but it's actually not.
Speaker AIt's more of a psychological pattern.
Speaker ASo what do I mean by that?
Speaker AWe're talking about a clinical disorder, something that has been diagnosed as a clinical condition.
Speaker ABut imposter syndrome is just a kind of a pattern.
Speaker AAnd I think when we start to understand what imposter syndrome actually is, then we can start reframing it and we can start taking action on overcoming it.
Speaker ABecause although I'm not a big fan of giving things labels, especially when it comes to like sort of psychological patterns or conditions or whatever that is, it does allow us to then understand it.
Speaker AAnd when we understand it, we can then start taking action to find a solution.
Speaker AI think that's actually key in my personal opinion.
Speaker ASo what is imposter syndrome?
Speaker AWell, actually, imposter syndrome was actually discovered back in 1978 by two psychologists pawning clients and Susan Emes.
Speaker AAnd they didn't actually define it as imposter syndrome because as I think was, Susan Umez said, it wasn't, wasn't the condition, it wasn't a syndrome, it was actually just a psychological pattern.
Speaker AAnd they're kind of as imposter phenomenal.
Speaker AAnd to be honest, I prefer this, I prefer to say imposter phenomenon or positive imposter fear as opposed to a syndrome.
Speaker ABut syndromes like what's been being made mainstream.
Speaker AIt's what people can kind of relate to.
Speaker ABy the way, it was discovered on, it was discovered, it was first coined by these two psychologists.
Speaker AAnd what they found was it was they found they'd done some studies of high performing women.
Speaker ASo these women who were actually achieving, that's a key thing here, do already achieving in life.
Speaker ABut they didn't see their achievements, the senior achievements as luck and not ability.
Speaker ASo they didn't see themselves as having the ability to achieve it.
Speaker AThey just found that it was actually akin with luck.
Speaker AAnd what the fault was, what they found was that these high achiever women were actually, they were fearful of being found out and being exposers of fraud.
Speaker AYeah, and that's the difference there between self doubts and imposter fear or imposter syndrome, or poster phenomenon, whatever label you want to kind of give that.
Speaker ABecause self doubt, I feel, is something completely different.
Speaker AGet self doubts is when you start doubting your abilities, you doubt yourself as a person to be able to achieve something.
Speaker AAnd this actually keeps you stuck.
Speaker AAnd this is what we find a lot with the kids with young Kids that don't believe in themselves don't believe that they can achieve things.
Speaker AWhere to give you a little story now.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AWhen our players go into the fitness industry.
Speaker ASo now players go into the fitness industry.
Speaker AThere was a big thing at the time, so social media was very rather new.
Speaker ASo it was in this infancy and what was big at the time was a website called Tin Nation and Teen Nation was where all the big dogs went all onto and they're done like the blogs, the wrote blogs.
Speaker AThat's what it was, was like a blog post safe.
Speaker AI think it's kind of evolved with that.
Speaker AI think we do videos, all the stuff now, but at the time it was just a written word.
Speaker AAnd I used to look at this and think I used to be able to kind of do that, but was always debilitated by the self doubt in myself and saying I can never do.
Speaker AYou look at these people who were writing and some of them had like letters after the names.
Speaker ASome of them have been in industry for a long, long time.
Speaker AAnd you'd be kind of like, oh, I was sort of certainly, oh, I could never ever achieve that because who am I to be able to write for this website and you know that type of thing.
Speaker AAnd this can kind of keep you stuck.
Speaker ANow you could say that that was imposter syndrome or imposter fee or imposter phenomena, whatever you want to call it, but it actually wasn't because I wasn't actually doing the thing.
Speaker AAnd that's the whole point.
Speaker AI wasn't actually at that point where I was made writing for that publication.
Speaker AAnd I'm thinking how did I actually get here?
Speaker ALike this was complete luck.
Speaker AThis wasn't out liabilities, this was complete.
Speaker ALook, one day I'm going to get found out and then they're going to kick me off the site.
Speaker ALike I didn't even get to that level because I didn't take action.
Speaker AAnd that's when it becomes the self doubt.
Speaker AI was doubting myself.
Speaker ALike I didn't think I was achieving, I didn't think I have it.
Speaker AI had it in me to be able to write a good enough blog post to put onto that, that website.
Speaker ATherefore there was no action.
Speaker AAnd that's the difference.
Speaker ASo imposter syndrome is when you already take an action and you're already in the thick of this.
Speaker AYou're already getting the rewards or the achievements, but you don't think you're worthy of the achievements.
Speaker AThat's the difference.
Speaker ASelf doubt is when you're completely debilitated Therefore, you're debilitated by self doubt.
Speaker ABut what we're going to touch on in a minute is actually self doubts can be actually empowering when we reframe self doubts.
Speaker ASo let's touch on.
Speaker AI want to bring into this podcast now the guy called Adam Grant.
Speaker AAnd by the way, if anybody rolls Adam Grant, I would love to have him on the podcast.
Speaker AReally would.
Speaker AHe's the thing, like, if you want to achieve something or you want to kind of build something, you gotta ask.
Speaker AIf you don't ask people, if you don't ask for something, you never get it.
Speaker ASo here's my ask.
Speaker AIf anybody wants Adam Grant, please ask him to politely, nicely, persuasively to come on the podcast.
Speaker ABecause I think he's an amazing dude and I would love to really dive deep into his brain around imposter syndrome and self doubts and confidence because he has a really nice way of reframing confidence.
Speaker AAnd if you read his book, think again, he puts it in a really good way.
Speaker ASo what he sees is confidence is you have, think of it as a.
Speaker AI'm trying to think from, from your perspective how you can see this.
Speaker ASo imagine we had, at the very bottom, we've got what he says it's imposter syndrome.
Speaker AI'm going to call it debilitating self doubts.
Speaker AThen at the top we have overconfidence, arrogance.
Speaker AThese are the people who kind of, you know, they think they know everything, but they really don't.
Speaker ABut they're so fixed in the ways that they're not willing to change.
Speaker AAnd then you have that.
Speaker AThe bottom, say the debilitating self doubts where you're kind of like, you just saw uncertain.
Speaker AYou have no confidence in your abilities.
Speaker ABut then you have like the middle layer, let's call it layers.
Speaker ASo it's like a sandwich.
Speaker ASo the bottom, debilitating self doubts.
Speaker AAt the top, arrogance, overconfidence.
Speaker AAnd in the middle, that's what Adam Grant refers to as confident humility.
Speaker ANow what this is, this is basically you being secure in yourself, but also uncertain to the fact that you don't know everything.
Speaker AAll right?
Speaker ABut you have that.
Speaker AYou can adopt that student based mindset where it's like, you know what, Like I'm confident in myself, but I know that I don't have the tools yet.
Speaker AI know that I already, I need to go and learn these things or I need to go and reach out to these people and I need to go and, you know, do more, have more experience in this subject.
Speaker AThat is a humility side of it.
Speaker ABut you're confident that you can learn that.
Speaker AYou're confident in yourself, that, you know, if I went into the situation, I'm not going to know everything, but I'm confident that I could learn it all right?
Speaker AThat's what that confidence, humility is.
Speaker AAnd I love the way that he kind of reframes that because that's a really good place to be.
Speaker ABecause we see a lot of people see confidence as, oh, I have to know everything and I've got to be at the top.
Speaker AAnd no, they won't put the work out there or they won't try the thing.
Speaker AThey won't start that business.
Speaker AThey won't go and enter that event or play for that sport or play for that team because it's like, well, I'm just not good enough yet, or I'm not there yet.
Speaker AAnd that is what keeps us debilitated.
Speaker ABut when we're at that point of like, you know what, I could probably push myself into it and I'm confident that I can adapt to it.
Speaker AThat is that confidence, humility.
Speaker AAnd I love the way that he kind of reframes that.
Speaker ASo how do we get past the point of self doubt and up to that level of confidence humility?
Speaker AWell, we've got to be able to see the first step is to be able to see self doubt in a different light.
Speaker AAnd I love the way that Rick Rubin actually puts it.
Speaker AHe's got a really great book called the Creative Act.
Speaker ASo anybody who's really into creativity, like myself, it's a really good book to read anyway.
Speaker ABut the way he kind of reframes it is like, if we doubt ourselves, then that becomes a psychological condition because we actually tell ourselves that we're not good enough.
Speaker ABut if you don't doubt yourself and instead doubt the work.
Speaker ASo if you're putting work out there, you can put this in any way.
Speaker ASo you could be playing like a football game.
Speaker ALet's say you're playing football and it could be like you're not doubting yourself, you're just doubting that maybe the effort that you put in that particular game wasn't good enough.
Speaker AOr let's say you're putting yourself out there for your business, you're doubting yourself, you're just putting out.
Speaker AThe work that you're putting out there isn't great yet.
Speaker ABut that what that does is it means that you can then revisit that work or revisit that game or revisit that performance.
Speaker AYou know, let's put it on the frame of performance and then say, hey, how can we get better?
Speaker ABecause now what we can do is we can then make that work better.
Speaker AAnd when we make that work better, that then turns into an amazing thing.
Speaker ASo we're not doubting ourselves, we're doubting the work that we're putting out there or the effort that we're putting out there.
Speaker AAnd we could always improve.
Speaker AAnd I love how he kind of does that.
Speaker ASo the second thing I want to bring you to is cold water exposure.
Speaker ASo ice baths, cold showers, these types of things, because these are quite popular now, especially in the self help world.
Speaker ABut I do think that the kind of done or maybe they're promoted in the wrong way.
Speaker ANow there's a lot of health benefits to cold water exposure which I'm going to kind of touch on now.
Speaker ABut you see a lot of gurus who were, you know, jumping at ice baths and these types of things will say if you want to be kind of disciplined, this is where you want to, what you, what you kind of want to do.
Speaker ABut I want to tell you why that's not actually true and what you can do better.
Speaker ABut the first thing is like ice baths, there's a lot of research about how it promotes or stimulates dopamine.
Speaker ASo you know, dopamine is the motivation and pursuit hormone and it's, it's seen to kind of raise like dopamine levels from baseline up to I think it's the 60 minutes, like cold water exposure was something like 10x, which is like the same as Cor can, which is ridiculous.
Speaker AUh, but you know, you'd have to get in cold water for a long time to get those effects.
Speaker ABut the point is it does stimulate dope.
Speaker AMeans if you're getting a cold shower in the morning and you're feeling like motivated, energized from it, then that, that, that works, right?
Speaker ABecause that's giving you that energy.
Speaker AYou know, from observations as well.
Speaker AIt seems like a lot of older people, they gravitate a cold water as they get older.
Speaker AI don't know whether this is like an instinct thing or maybe that's the, it's just something that they jump into cold water, they're like, wow, like I feel like 10 years younger doing this.
Speaker AI feel amazing for it.
Speaker AAnd they continue to do it.
Speaker AYou see a lot of older people like jumping in cold water, which I think is amazing because as we kind of get older we lose these abilities to develop or stimulate dopamine, which kind of leads on to Things like Parkinson's disease.
Speaker ASo maybe these kind of older people know something that we didn't, or certainly they figured something out before we did or before researchers did.
Speaker AAny who.
Speaker AI'm going down a bit of a rabbit hole there.
Speaker ABut the main thing is when we're talking about cold water exposure, like one of the things that it does do, and this is the point that I want to really touch on now and to help you to understand it, there's a part of your brain called the anterior mid singular cortex.
Speaker AAnd I have spoken about this before or the podcasts episodes.
Speaker ASo what this is, this part of your brain is responsible for things like willpower, tenacity, grit, like your ability to be able to do hard things.
Speaker AAll right, this has been shown in research to be large in athletes and the athletic population.
Speaker ASo when they've looked at elite athletes, the anterior mid singular cortex is very large and well developed, whereas in the obese population, it's very small.
Speaker AIt's kind of.
Speaker ASo it's big in athletes, it's small in the obese population.
Speaker ABut we can develop this part of our brain, and the way we develop this part of our brain is by doing things that are physically hard.
Speaker AOkay, so again, think of athletes.
Speaker AAthletes are continuously pushing themselves through physical hard challenges.
Speaker AThey're going into competitions, they're pushing the bodies to the limits, and these doing these physically difficult challenges that develops that part of the brain.
Speaker AI'd actually love them to do some research.
Speaker AI don't know whether they have or like entrepreneurs who have gone through all of that struggle where they start at the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the pile and they push themselves to the top and kind of build successful businesses.
Speaker AI'd love to see what the anterior mid singular cortex is like, because I see athletes and entrepreneurs as very, very similar in terms of, like, the trying to achieve these things with, you know, no security, there's no guarantees, totally uncertain, and you have to go through these hard, difficult challenges in life.
Speaker AI'd love to see what that research is.
Speaker AMaybe it is.
Speaker AAnd if anybody knows, please let me know.
Speaker ABut anyway, so yeah, you have this part of your brain which can be developed and this develops that kind of mental strength, that resilience, that toughness.
Speaker AAnd I think this is why a lot of health gurus or a lot of mindset gurus actually pushing this thing up.
Speaker ABut I wanted to kind of reframe this in a minute, just for a second.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AI want to use Tony Robbins as an example.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker ASo Tony, I like Tony Robbins as an example.
Speaker ABecause Tony Robbins does actually have a really great backstory.
Speaker AAnd Tony Robbins has been shown, or he has been in the past promoting like cold water.
Speaker AAnd he, I think, jumps into cold water every single morning.
Speaker AAnd he's been doing that for X number of years, right?
Speaker ASo when people say these things, oh, Tony Robbins is doing this and he's juggling cold water.
Speaker AThat's why he's successful.
Speaker AIt's like, no, that's not why he's successful.
Speaker AIt's like people look at David Goggins and they think, oh, David Goggins runs 100 miles a day.
Speaker AThat's why he's got where he is.
Speaker AAnd it's like, that's not what got David goddamns where he is.
Speaker AThat's not got what Tony Robbins.
Speaker ATony Robbins didn't start juggling cold water and then became successful.
Speaker AYeah, Tony Robbins.
Speaker AHow he became successful was because he was doing.
Speaker ATony Robbins was learning nlp.
Speaker ASo Neuro.
Speaker ANeuro Linguistic programming.
Speaker AAnd he was actually told when he was going through this process that he couldn't, he couldn't actually, he couldn't go and practice on people.
Speaker AIt was against all the rules.
Speaker AHe couldn't do that.
Speaker AWhere he was like, well, I'm just going to go and do it anyway.
Speaker AHe was already going, he was already breaking the rules.
Speaker AAnd what he was doing is when he was finishing his programming, when he was finishing his course, he would then go to random people on the street, like standing in a queue to a line, to a restaurant and that type of thing.
Speaker AAnd he would go and practice on these people.
Speaker ALike, how much tenacity and grit does that take to then just go.
Speaker AWhen your kind of superiors or these people who are coaching you and saying, you can't do this thing and he's going to go and do it anyway, he's walking up to strangers and he's practicing this thing.
Speaker ASo when people like look at Tony Robbins, he didn't get successful because he was jumping in cold water.
Speaker AHe got successful because he was already doing the hard thing.
Speaker ALike Tony Robbins then started using cold water therapy, I'd imagine, I don't know, I don't know Tony Robbins on a personal level.
Speaker ABut imagine he started using these cold water therapy things because he'd already got past the point of putting himself in these uncomfortable positions and these uncomfortable situations, which was developing that mental strength part of his brain.
Speaker AAnd he needed more stimulation to be able to do that.
Speaker ASo what's the next logical thing?
Speaker AWell, physically putting yourself through hard, difficult things like Jumping in cold water.
Speaker ASo where am I kind of going with this?
Speaker AWell, let's just give you an example of.
Speaker ALet's say you're only business, and I'll give you two examples.
Speaker AWe're going to go for a weight loss example, and we're going to go through a business example.
Speaker AOkay, let's start with the business example first.
Speaker ASo let's say that you are struggling to put yourself out there.
Speaker AYou are struggling to record videos and put these things online so then you can get more customers and more traction and more eyeballs on your personal brand or onto your business.
Speaker AYou're not doing that thing.
Speaker AAnd then some guru says, well, go and jump in a cold shower and develop your own mental strength.
Speaker AOkay, what we've got to think about when we're faced with something hard, we're faced with a decision.
Speaker AAnd decision fatigue is real.
Speaker AWe're making decisions every single day.
Speaker ASo what clothes to wear, what food to eat, you know, which way to turn, left or right.
Speaker AAll of these things create decision fatigue.
Speaker ANow, when you are challenged with a big task, that is emotionally draining.
Speaker ASo if you think, well, I've got to go and put myself on video today, that is draining.
Speaker AThat decision to be able to do that is very difficult and that can drain a lot of energy.
Speaker ASo you want to limit those decisions.
Speaker ABut then if you are going to jump in a cold shower and you are standing under the shower and you are going, should I do this?
Speaker AShould I not do this?
Speaker AAnd you're not quite sure whether you should or shouldn't, then you're getting that decision fatigue.
Speaker AThen if you're then going to do a harder thing later on, you might not have the mental energy to be able to do that.
Speaker ASo what I'm kind of saying here is it's like if it's a choice in this case of look, what's actually holding you back?
Speaker AWell, it's the fact that you're not putting yourself on the video or you're not putting a post out on social media, or you're not reaching out to people, or you're not doing the sales call.
Speaker AThen that's the hard thing.
Speaker ANot jumping into a cold shower.
Speaker ALike, do the hard thing.
Speaker ADo the thing you're avoiding.
Speaker AThat was the thing that will develop your mental strength.
Speaker ASo let's give you another example now on, say, weight loss.
Speaker ASo let's say you want to lose weight, but you're too afraid to go to the gym, right?
Speaker AThat is your big thing.
Speaker AThat is your big challenge.
Speaker AIf you can just challenge yourself to go to the gym.
Speaker AThat is your big hard thing.
Speaker AYou don't need any good cold shower, you don't need to record shower.
Speaker ATo develop that mental resilience and strength, what you need to do is just do the thing that you're avoiding.
Speaker AIt could be just as simple as getting up early on the morning instead of lying in bed till 7 o'clock.
Speaker AIf you got up at 6 o'clock and worked on something that was important to you, that could be your big hard thing.
Speaker AYeah, like for me, every morning getting out of bed isn't easy.
Speaker ABut I go to bed at half past five in the morning because it's important to me that I start doing some work.
Speaker ABecause of the way my life structured, I get more work done in the morning.
Speaker ASo I like to be up on the morning to do work.
Speaker ABut getting out of bed is actually a really difficult thing for me to do.
Speaker AI find it really hard.
Speaker ABut every moment I still get out, I still push through that uncomfortable situation.
Speaker AAnd that is all that is.
Speaker ASo when we're talking about cold showers, it's a case of a puts you in an uncomfortable position or uncomfortable, a physically uncomfortable situation which develops your mental resilience, mental strength or grit, whatever you want to kind of call out.
Speaker ASo yes, it can be a really great tool to develop that mental strength.
Speaker ABut is it in place of something that you're actually avoiding?
Speaker ASo here's a better way to think about it, a better way to strategize that if every day from Monday to Friday you're either going to go to the gym or you're going to put a social media post out, these things that you're avoiding, like let's not have a cold shower on that day.
Speaker ALet's just do the thing that actually holding you back.
Speaker ASo let's go to the gym that day, or let's put a social media post out there, or let's reach out to a person that we need to reach out to, or let's take that sales call or whatever that it is that difficult thing.
Speaker ALet's do that Monday to Friday and then on Saturday and Sunday when maybe it's a bit more of a relaxing day, then maybe you use that cold shower then, because then you still want to do a difficult thing on another, on another day, but it's on a day where you're already overwhelmed with things that you've got to do.
Speaker ASo then on your Saturday or Sunday you think, only thing I need to do today that's difficult is to jump in a Cold shower.
Speaker ASo therefore then you can use that as a strategy on the weekend.
Speaker ASo I hope I've made some sense with that.
Speaker AI hope that's kind of maybe give people a different way to look at like cold water therapy.
Speaker ABecause while I think it's good, while I think it has a place in people's lives, I think you've got to have a purpose of using it and you've got to get context to it.
Speaker ASo when you're saying people do things online or this person's doing that, so I need to do that, I'd say bring context to it.
Speaker ADid they start off doing that or is that something they do now?
Speaker ABecause they started down the bottom and then worked their way up and that's what they use it now because that's the strategy that they need at this time.
Speaker ASo I'm going to bring you now to the third action.
Speaker ASo this is mentorship.
Speaker AMentorship is essentially what is going to push you into taking action and to get you to achieve the things that you want to achieve.
Speaker AYou know, you could be mentors for your kids, but you also need your own mentor as well.
Speaker ASo what we've got to kind of think about is if you don't believe in yourself, then you've got to find somebody who does believe in you.
Speaker AYou can borrow their self belief.
Speaker AIf you find someone who believes in you, like think about your kids.
Speaker AYou might do that with your kids and your kids are like doubting themselves.
Speaker AYou're like, well, I know you can achieve that.
Speaker ALike you've got to tell them that and they have to bury your self belief.
Speaker ALike you've got to tell them that it's okay.
Speaker AYou don't have to believe in yourself.
Speaker ABut I believe in you.
Speaker AWhen you know that somebody believes in what you're doing, that gives you strength.
Speaker AAnd when that gives you strength, that develops into the self confidence.
Speaker AOkay, that is.
Speaker ASo we need to be able to borrow somebody else's self belief so we can use that for our own belief.
Speaker ANow I use a mentor.
Speaker AI have a mentor and this was somebody that I reached out to at Christmas time actually wasn't.
Speaker AIt was November time.
Speaker ASo I had this thing that I wanted to do.
Speaker AI wanted to.
Speaker AI've worked with women for years and it's always been an area that I've been into, but I wanted to get into deeper with it.
Speaker AI wanted to dive into the hormonal side of things, menstrual cycle, perimenopause, which is something that really kind of fascinated me and we have a lot of young girls in the gym, a lot of young athletes in the gym.
Speaker AI wanted to be able to provide a program for them that would actually help them to understand the hormones so they could use it as a health metric and a performance tool and a superpower.
Speaker ASo they weren't seen as a limitation, but something that would actually benefit one.
Speaker AWell, it would actually set them up for life so they could thrive in sport like now.
Speaker AAlthough I had knowledge in it and I believed that I could deliver this content, there was still, I still had those fears, those imposter fears that I was coming to a topic that was, you know, with that doctors talk about or maybe women talk about and the guy.
Speaker ASo I had a lot of these sort of self, not self doubts, but there's a lot of these negative types of feelings or connections to the thing that I wanted to deliver.
Speaker AI listened to a talk by Dr.
Speaker ALily K.
Speaker AIt was at the Mac Nutrition Live conference and I listened to her talking and I was just like, I need to work with this lady.
Speaker ALike, I have to go and speak to this lady now.
Speaker AI want her, I want to be able to work with her.
Speaker AAnd I've never ever done this before in my life.
Speaker ABut when she came off the stage, I've been loads of conferences and I'm not the type of person who would go up and get like a photo or talk to people.
Speaker AI just, I don't do that.
Speaker AThat's just not who I am.
Speaker ABut when she come off the stage, I made sure I was the first one to go and speak to her.
Speaker AI literally ran up, didn't literally grab a hold of her because that would have been a bit weird.
Speaker ABut I did jump in and had a conversation with her and I got a photo taken with her and it was all kind of all happening a bit of a blur.
Speaker AAnd anyway, when we got back, I was like, I need to work with this lady.
Speaker AI need to reach out to Dr.
Speaker ANikki and I need to, for whatever reason, I need to work with her anyway, so cut, long story short, I reached out to her and we set up some calls and that has been absolutely game changing for what I'm actually doing on my business.
Speaker ASo now my business, I'm actually going to be delivering this talk on the menstrual cycle to sports clubs, universities.
Speaker AThis is something that I would never have done in the past because of by myself.
Speaker AAnd if you're in business, if you do have, like, if you're listening to this now and you are an entrepreneur or you know, you do some kind of pursuit or something on your own.
Speaker AYou do sit in your own mind a lot.
Speaker AAnd when you buy yourself, it's very isolating and you can almost.
Speaker AYou do have a lot of doubts.
Speaker AThis is why you need that support.
Speaker AYou need someone to have who can believe in what you're doing and they can help you, push you in the right direction, but also give you that confidence to say, yeah, that's good enough.
Speaker AJust put it out there and see what happens.
Speaker AAnd that's what I'm saying about mentorship.
Speaker AMentorship is so important and it's so powerful.
Speaker AAnd everybody needs a mentor in life.
Speaker AKids especially need mentors.
Speaker ABut as us as adults, we think we get to the point where we're like, oh, we don't need this.
Speaker AWe do.
Speaker AWe absolutely need mentors in our life.
Speaker AEverybody needs a good mentor in life.
Speaker ASo if you listen to this right now or you're watching it on YouTube and you want a really big takeaway, find a mentor.
Speaker ALike, find a mentor in life.
Speaker AWe all need mentors.
Speaker AWe all need people who can believe in us.
Speaker ASo, yeah, that's your action step.
Speaker AGo and find them on.
Speaker AIncidentally, Dr.
Speaker ANick is actually going to be coming onto this podcast, which I'm really chuffed about, and we're going to talk about female hormones.
Speaker AWe're going to talk about, you know, the life, women's life and hormones.
Speaker AIt's absolutely fascinating and we are going to have a good discussion about that.
Speaker ASo if you do have any questions about female hormones and you would like to get those answers, then feel free to reach out and let me know.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker ASo let's wrap that up there for the day.
Speaker AThank you again for being here today.
Speaker AI appreciate your time.
Speaker AIf you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email.
Speaker AYou can find that in the show notes.
Speaker AIf you want to challenge yourself and take a quiz, I have two quizzes, so one's for female athletes.
Speaker ASit down with your daughter and take this.
Speaker AYou get some amazing insights.
Speaker AAnd if you're an entrepreneur, you're a woman over 35, there's a quiz there for you as well.
Speaker ASo thank you for your time.
Speaker AI appreciate it.
Speaker AAnd just remember, always believe in yourself and never give up on your dreams.