people often say to me, Sean, I don't feel confident enough to make this bold move.

I remind them that confidence comes from taking action to move you closer to your potential.

And so in making that bold move, no matter what the outcome is, you're building your

confidence. A bold move is defined by you, and it might be quiet, right? You do not have to be

extroverted in order to achieve this. You have to be committed to your own success. We don't have to

wait till the end for a celebration. You need to celebrate the progress along the way in order to be motivated to keep going.

That's Shawna A. Hawking.

She's a leadership consultant and coach, fundraising strategist, speaker writer, and recently, one of LinkedIn's top voices.

She's also the author of One Bold Move a Day,

so you'll learn, one, how daily bold moves increase confidence.

Two, powerful mantras to keep self-doubt at bay.

And three, how to stop dreading, difficult conversations.

And if you want a quick summary write-up of these takeaways,

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at Awesome At Your Job.com.

I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now here's Shana.

Shana, welcome. Pete, I'm so glad to be here together with you.

I am so glad to be here as well. I think you've got so much really cool wisdom associated with career advancement and

strategy and wise goodness. And I'm excited to dig in. Great. Let's do it. Well, could you kick

us off with a particularly surprising or counterintuitive insight you've come to about us

professionals trying to advance? What's something you know that most of us don't? Well, I'd like to

believe that my job is to bring out things that people already know about themselves and maybe

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