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Hi, welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and we start these

Feel Good Friday episodes with a big deep breath together because it feels amazing. It's important

and it's pretty much the only deep breath I take all week, so do it with me.

Excellent, so good. Note to self. Breathe more. Welcome to the final episode in the Feel Good Friday

series. My hope has been that these episodes make you feel better in some way. The goal is to

offer expert back advice that's helpful and uplifting without being fluffy or too delusionaly optimistic.

It's about controlling what we can control and making the best of where we're at.

We kicked off this four-part series with some great advice on how to feel all your feelings right now.

courtesy of Rachel Gerstin and Jurelle Carabello, therapists and co-founders of Viva Wellness in

New York City. Next, running coach Jess Movolve stopped by to talk about how to find purpose,

meaning, and motivation on the run right now. After that, my personal idol, Katie Burke,

offered tons of ways to help discover your passion right now and how to figure out what to do

about finding a new normal. Today, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about confidence.

As I navigate my own place in the world right now, both big picture and in my own communities,

and within my own family, I come back to confidence a lot. I just don't think you can be successful,

whatever that definition means to you, or fulfilled without internal satisfaction and confidence.

You really have to like yourself. I think that's really important. So today, Claudia Thompson,

the president of Claudia Connects, is here to talk about just that. She shares her own confidence

journey, which turns out she wasn't always the super confident public speaker she is today,

and she offers advice for how you can flex your own confidence muscles.

Before we dive into that, I want to give a shout out to you,

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