It’s Time For A Confidence Boost!

Hello, Cadre family. I hope you guys can see me okay. I'm out here in sunny, beautiful, perfect weather. Boulder, Colorado. Sorry if it's a little shaky. I am holding the phone today, but that is what you get. It's almost Friday. Is anybody else feeling that, like, Friday vibe? I don't usually, like, look forward to Fridays because every day feels like Monday to me. I'm excited about it. But sometimes you just need a Friday, right? Sometimes you just need a Friday. Today we are going to talk about confidence.

And I feel like this is, like, a subject that I love talking about because I coach on confidence and style in my daily life, in my job. I've been doing it for years and I love talking about it. I specifically am happy to be talking about it today because I am preparing to give a speech on style and confidence and confidence being contagious next week to a group of about 300 plus female CEO's and entrepreneurs. And I will say, I'm not sure if I'm 100% confident for it yet, but what I will tell you is, as I've been preparing for it, there are a few things that I'm learning that I need to keep in mind in order to remain confident, and the things that I want to talk to them about.

Sorry about the traffic. I hope you guys can hear okay, but I wanted to be outside because it's so beautiful. But a couple of things that I want to talk to you about today are you how to just basically remain confident and be confident in any situation. And specifically for me, I'll be talking about how it pertains to fashion next week, but just in general, like, thinking about being confident in a room, in a business meeting, in a conversation with your teenager, in a conversation with a business partner, or just walking into a room in any situation, having that confidence.

And one of the things that people always say to me is you seem so together and you walk in a room and you've got it going on, and you're always head to toe, looking great, and you're excited and you're happy, and, you know, it's definitely, it takes some work. And I think one of the, like, the things that comes along with being confident is preparedness. And the second thing would be authenticity. Like, if you are true to yourself, you can be 100% confident in who you are when you walk in the room.

So if you are authentic to you, you're going to show up in the best possible way. And then the third thing would probably be it's that whole look good feel good mentality, right? Like, if you feel like you look good, you can walk into any room with confidence and whatever that means for you. So dressing appropriately for the room that you're in for the event that you're going to, whatever it is, whatever life event that you have happening, look good, feel good, have confidence, and people recognize that they see that in you.

So I want to unpack just a little bit for a few minutes, these top three things. So again, like, preparedness, authenticity, and look good, feel good. So the first thing is preparedness. And I'm learning this as I prepare for my speech next week. I will say this is going to be the biggest room that I talk to in the speech form. I'm going to be talking for 30 minutes, and then we'll have a little q and a. And I haven't exactly felt that confident about talking about confidence, which is a little nerve wracking these poor women.

But I'm getting it together. And the way that I'm doing that is being prepared. I'm working with a speaking coach. I'm watching speeches. I'm researching confidence. I'm coming up with an outline, and I'm making sure that I am prepared. I have built a lot of my business on preparedness. I have a product line that's basically fashion, emergency kits, brides. It's all about preparedness. You can feel confident walking into the room or giving a presentation or walking out on stage, whatever it is, if you are prepared.

So do the work on the back end to be prepared. If you're doing your to do list the night before and you're prepared for the next day, you will have confidence that you are going to tackle that day with ease. It's a simple recipe. So do the work, be prepared, and you will show up with confidence. The second thing I want to say is authenticity. So we'll talk a little bit more about that here. It's show up as you. Have you ever tried to live out your imposter syndrome and try to be somebody else in the room?

And then getting the result that you get is probably not going to be the same as if you showed up 100% authentically. You. If you're talking about something that you are an expert in, it is your lived experience. You're probably going to be the most confident in the room in a sales presentation on the stage. If you live it and you know it, if you're trying to pass yourself off as somebody else or trying to say that you're an expert in another field that you know nothing about people are going to see right through that and your confidence is going to go plummeting down.

But if you are authentically you, when you walk in a room and when you present, you are going to have the confidence to show up as the best version of yourself. And people are going to take that and really, like, allow it to sink in with them. So when I show up in a room, I am authentically me. You get what you get every single time. Now, of course, sometimes we have to adapt depending on what type of room that we're in, but you still want to show up as the version of yourself that you're proud of.

That will give you the confidence that you need in any room. Just be confident in who you are and build that person up. The last thing, of course, being a fashion person, myself, look good, feel good. So you will, I promise, have the most confidence in yourself when you put the time into yourself, when you show up appropriately and dressed appropriately for the occasion. If I'm getting up on stage to talk to a group of women about style confidence, and I show up in a ripped up t shirt and jeans that don't fit and my hair is a mess and I haven't showered, I mean, how are they going to take me seriously?

How am I going to take myself seriously? The message doesn't match what's happening on the outside. So all I can say is take pride in how you look and how you present yourself. You are your brand. And I promise you will walk away feeling like you crushed it no matter what, even if it's school pickup and drop off confidently. Show up as the best version of yourself in that moment. And I promise you, you will walk away feeling like you nailed it. So confidence in a nutshell. And of course, my conversation with these women next week will be a lot longer, but I hope that that gives you a little bit of information and just a little tiny checklist for feeling like the most confident version of yourself.

So, preparedness. Show up prepared, be your authentic self, and then look good, feel good. So I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend. And don't forget to check out the app and everything that's new. We're loading new stuff up on the app daily and I just hope you guys have an awesome day. Go out and be your confident self.