What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

I'm not good enough. Be honest. How many times has this thought crept into your head?

How often have you set a goal but struggled with self-doubt,

fear, or failure, or even imposter syndrome only to end up back where you started? I'm raising

both hands over here, friend, and it doesn't matter what that is. Maybe it's decluttering

your home, saving money. It's a new project you wanted to start for years,

a new health routine, changing careers, you name it. If the conversation in your head sounds like

one out of the movie, Mean Girls, today's episode is for you. I used to think confidence was

holding your head high, being sure of your beliefs, and either you had it or you

didn't. A, I was wrong. And B, it's actually so much more than that. You're about to hear from

my friend Emily Long, confidence coach and mama of three. And she's sharing with us five things

you can do right now to increase your confidence and squash that self-doubt so you can live

a purposed and fulfilling life and do whatever it is that you've always wanted to do. Enjoy it.

Emily, welcome to the show. I'm so happy to have you here. Thank you so much for having me, Katie.

So Emily, you coach moms on how to ditch self-doubt and

fear of failure so that they can live a purposed and fulfilling life with confidence. Tell us your

story because I know it's a good one and how you got to where you are today. Yeah, so it could be a

really long story or it could be a short story. So I'll give you the short

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