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Welcome to The Alley on the Run Show.

I'm your host Allie Feller and today we are talking about one of my very favorite topics.

Confidence.

In the past year I've loved asking guests on The Alley on the Run Show about their own confidence.

I love knowing whether they consider themselves confident, if they've always been confident,

how they've boosted their confidence and what shakes their confidence.

This is something I've wanted to talk about for a while now and I'm flying solo for this one.

So get on board and let's talk confidence.

Okay so before I talk about my own confidence, I want to throw it back to episode 70 of The Alley

on the Run Show. My guest that day was Katie Burke, one of my favorites. She's the Chief

People Officer at HubSpot and everything Katie says is amazing and thought provoking and I'm

obsessed with her. In addition to all the brilliance Katie shared on the episode, she talked about how

confidence is a muscle. Here's a quote from Katie. She said, I don't think it's something you're given.

It's not that you either have it or you don't. The more you practice it, the stronger that muscle is

going to get. Like I said, she's brilliant and I'm obsessed with her. So I remind myself of this

all the time because I tend to have a sort of wavering relationship with confidence.

I would say in general, I've always been a pretty confident person growing up. I was given a lot

of praise for my parents and my teachers. I was definitely a teacher's pet. I was probably super

annoying and I don't know if that's why but I know that when I look back on my childhood,

I don't ever remember lacking confidence and there was a time in like 10th grade when I had a

giant cyst on my face. It was in the middle of my eyebrows. I had to have it surgically removed

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