How often have you NOT spoken up because you don’t trust yourself to say the ‘right’ thing?

I was recently asked these 2 questions:

1. How do you build the confidence in knowing what to say? How do you trust yourself to provide the right content?
2. How do you develop the confidence to trust your intuition?

And I thought answering them would make for a delicious discussion.

Listen in to hear:

• How I determined what is the ‘right’ thing to say (as a recovering over-thinker and self-doubter)

• How to listen to your audience in a way that tells you what they want to know

• How to strengthen your intuition in an age of AI and ‘should’ messaging

• The ways to practice trusting your intuition to strength it

• Why feedback and interaction is the best way to determine if you’re ‘saying the right thing’ (which requires practice and risk)

>> I would LOVE your help to celebrate 200 episodes of Speaking with Confidence with Cat Matson. If you’re listening on a platform that allows comments, leave a ‘toast’ for the podcast that I can read out on the show, or ask me a question I can answer on episode 200!

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>> Want more ideas on strengthening your intuition?

Listen to this interview with Chenae Carey

Episode 123 - Intuitive Business with Chenae Carey

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Where does your confidence come from?

Is it authority?

Is it something else?

That was a question I was asked recently and I’m answering it in this week’s podcast.

A listener asked:

>> When you stand up as a public speaker, how do you build your confidence? Through authority, or something else? And, if authority, is it internal or external authority?

What a question!

Listen in to hear my exploration, including:

• When external authority is important in building your confidence

• How to build your internal authority

• How to recognise the authority that others ascribe to you

• Why using my ‘brag bag stories’ is a powerful way to build your confidence around your authority

• Why the conversations you have repeatedly are often a source of fabulous authority (even if it seems too obvious to you).

>> I would LOVE your help to celebrate 200 episodes of Speaking with Confidence with Cat Matson. If you’re listening on a platform that allows comments, leave a ‘toast’ for the podcast that I can read out on the show, or ask me a question I can answer on episode 200!

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>> Want to know more about brag bag stories and establishing your authority?

Listen to episode 143 - How To Establish Credibility without sounding braggy - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7C2ap7T1cPRJUjkeOkcZoJ?si=mTF_fmvARqGXUD3rKHYU_g

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