Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sue Reynolds. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Hi Sue, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?
As much as we’d like to think, self-esteem and confidence don’t come from external sources. No amount of telling someone else they are smart and competent will make them believe it if they don’t already believe it themselves. I developed my confidence by setting goals and working toward them, learning along the way that I could do whatever I put my mind to doing. It was a gradual process, and one day I looked back and realized I felt way better about myself than I did, say ten or twenty years ago. I realize now that I don’t have to know everything about a skill or a subject to accept a challenge, rather, I have to have faith in myself that I will put in the work to learn it.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
My mission is to help businesses succeed using social media marketing and to help women reach their leadership potential through one-on-one coaching and leadership training. As an Executive Coach with a degree in Organizational Leadership, I specialize in mentoring and empowering women to succeed in the workplace. I’ve authored the book Leadership Linguistics, How the Language You Use Helps You Succeed at Work and in the World. I’ve also developed a Leadership for Women Course to help women overcome unconscious mistakes they might be making that hold them back at work. I coach individuals one-on-one to help them overcome self-limiting beliefs that keep them from achieving their goals and dreams. I love my work and am especially gratified when I see women reaching their potential.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Three things that directly impacted me were first, overcoming adversity and struggle, second my constant commitment to learning and third, my perseverance. Never stop learning and never give up.
Alright so to wrap up, who deserves credit for helping you overcome challenges or build some of the essential skills you’ve needed?
I’ve had to learn that culture is a construct. It’s a set of rules we made up and all agree to, yet, our culture holds many people back from reaching their full potential. It’s not a book, rather, a song that brought his idea home to me. The song is Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls in which it says “the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.” This helped me to stop “shoulding” on myself and instead, live the life I want to live based on no one’s rules but my own.
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- Website: https://carminemedia.com
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