Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe or a cafe or a lé, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. In In today's podcast, we're going to talk about confidence, how to build it, the benefits of having

it, and at the end of the podcast in this week's

patee pleasure, I'll introduce you to a hands-on opportunity to build

your self-confidence when I interview Tracy Hooper who founded the

Confidence Project.

So let's get started.

What exactly, first of all, is confidence?

I think it's important we know what we're pursuing

before we talk about how to acquire it. Those who exude confidence seem to have this energy or this

air about them that people are drawn to. These people are neither arrogant, nor are they people with low self-esteem or are they insecure about themselves.

Rather, they hold your attention with that certain genocique, I guess you could say sometimes putting your finger on

exactly those ingredients that make up someone with confidence can be difficult

but ultimately a person with confidence is someone who has a sense of assurance

a sense of knowledge and appropriate understanding of the situation on which you find

them. The definition in the dictionary of the code, their definition of confidence, is simply the alignment of one's skills with the task at

hands.

And I think that's important to point out that you can be confident in one moment and not in the next.

For example, you put me on a horse and I am confident.

I grew up with horses as a kid.

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