Hi friends, welcome back.

My guest today is Elena M. Nova and we are talking about how to develop self-esteem in business

and in life.

Inaction killed more dreams than inability ever did.

And what this means is that a lot of the time you are much more capable than you believe

if only you could get over your own lack of self-confidence.

And today Elena gives us a nice framework so you can see where the sticking points are.

There's a lot of good stories from both mine and her academic and professional careers

that showed just how little self-belief we've had at certain periods.

And you look at someone like Elena who's got like six degrees and started a biotech company

and did all this sort of stuff.

And you think well obviously she's just got bottomless self-confidence but that's not

how it is at all.

And hearing stories like that I think can be really useful for helping people to realize

that other people aren't just these ubiquitous successes.

They have the same challenges that you do as well.

They just have a structure of how to get over it.

So hopefully today will encourage you to go after that new project that you want to start,

that new business or just have a little bit more self-confidence to go around your day.

In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by, actually before that.

Thank you again to everyone who supported the Lifehacks list that's gone out this week.

I can't believe the response. It is so good.

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