Hi and welcome to this week's Amazing If podcast. We're Sarah and Helen, the founders of Amazing If, a business that's all about helping people have happy careers.

And this week we're going to be continuing our series on Confidence Gremlins, where we're going to be talking about the top 10 confidence gremlins that get in our way at work.

And our focus for this week is being

put on the spot. You freeze or you just start talking like an idiot and making absolutely no sense.

So something that I suspect most of us can associate with at some point in our careers. But just a

quick reminder before we really get into the fear of being put on the spot about what a confidence

gremlin is and why they matter. So confidence gremlins are the things that hold us back at work.

They matter because they stop us doing well in our jobs. And actually really importantly,

they stop us doing the things that we really want to do in our careers and things that will

make us happy. So often they make us a bit afraid to take the leap to do the job we want to do or the project we really want

to get involved in. Really important and we say it every week that to remind you that everybody

has confidence gremlins. I think often you feel that that's just not true and that your gremlins are

worse than everybody else's. But honestly, everyone we ever meet has their own confidence gremlins.

Really, the trick is to know what yours are

and then actually start doing something about them.

So let's kick off and let's start thinking about being put on the spot at work.

So Helen, can you talk to me about whether this is something you see a lot at work?

Is it something you've experienced yourself? Have you ever helped someone do get over something like being put on the spot?

Yeah, I think it's actually one of the more common confidence gremlins actually. So I don't think

it is just something, so I was talking to someone in my team earlier this week and she's a graduate. And so she has this, but I don't think it's just

the kind of confidence grunums you have when you're young. Actually, I know lots of people who

have been quite a long time in their career and they still hate this idea that they could be

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