I'm so, so happy to be here.

You all, I feel like, are my constant companions in my ears on my LinkedIn.

It's great to be here.

We are super fans of yours and so excited to share you with our audience.

So here's how today is going to work.

We are going to spend a little bit of time getting to know you so that all of our

fixers out there, as we call our audience, can also love you the way we love you. And then the three of us

are going to answer some questions about confidence that our audience has sent in. This is part of our

series on confidence that we are doing this season.

Awesome. Let's do it. What are the big things that people get wrong about anxiety?

That it's bad. That it's something that we can cure and never feel again. That's ridiculous. And we wouldn't even want that. But then I think on the other spectrum that if you're in a really

tough spot with anxiety that you're never going to feel better because that's not true either.

You know, there are so many great proven treatments for anxiety because it is so, so common.

Some of the best advice I got about anxiety was from Dr. Alice Boys and she said, you know, can we treat anxiety a little more lightly?

Right? We feel anxious about feeling anxious. We feel stressed about feeling stressed. Can we treat it more lightly and bring it into our lives as even a source of wisdom. That's how I feel about it.

There is still a lot of stigma around this stuff. Anxiety is weirdly stigmatized because I think we

conflate it with weakness in a way. Like if I'm anxious, I'm not going to do a good job. I'm not going to be

trustworthy. That is absolutely not true.

We're having this conversation as part of a series on confidence. How do you think about the

relationship between anxiety and confidence? You can't have confidence without anxiety.

You can't be great at anything without anxiety because anxiety happens

also when we're pushing our growth edge and it keeps us literally on our toes, you know? And so I think

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