Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast

and this episode is part of our Skills Sprint series. We've recorded 20 episodes. Each of them

are less than seven minutes long and they're designed to help you build some career development

momentum. So in every episode we're going to talk about a squiggly skill, share an idea for action from each of us,

and then we'll give you a go-to guru and a podcast episode so that you can learn a bit more.

And we really want you to turn this skill sprint into your learning streak.

So for everybody who completes the entire sprint, that's 20 days, we're going to offer you a free five skills to succeed in a squiggly career virtual workshop

with Sarah and me in September. All you've got to do is listen and do a bit of learning and then

post about your progress on social and taggers. We're at Amazing If in your post and then we will

be in touch. In this skill sprint, we're talking about self-belief. And the first thing to say is self-belief is a skill. I know that sometimes

it doesn't feel that way. It might feel like we just not got as much self-belief as other people,

or it's something that we are born with and we can't really change. But we can, with practice,

develop it. We can become more confident. And also, nobody has 100% self-belief all of the time. I promise you, it doesn't

matter how successful somebody looks in their squiggly careers. Everybody has doubts. Everybody

has those knotty moments. And so I think the first thing that's really important is that we see

those doubts as data, as Susan David would say. We'll come back to Susan David. And we always

describe it as use our doubts as data for our say. We'll come back to Susan David. And we always describe it as use

our doubts as data for our development. So see our flaws, those things that, you know, probably

feel a bit more imperfect about us, see there's just being features of being human rather than

something to be fixed. I think if we feel like we've got to fix ourselves when it comes to self-belief,

we're sort of starting from the wrong place. And of course, we all have gremlins. And these are beliefs that hold us back,

beliefs that get in our way. So Helen, give us a couple of those gremlins that you've got. Let the,

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