Today’s guest is Lauren Currie. Lauren is on a mission to democratise leadership and to change the face of confidence. In our conversation, we talked about learning to be confident and being confident to learn. We talked about what confidence is and the conditions that contribute to having confidence; its connection to learning; how to improve one’s confidence and specific strategies you can employ to make the learning journey less scary. ⠀

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Hope you enjoy our chat. 🙌⠀

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Questions we explored:⠀

01:31 - Who’s Lauren and what’s her story?⠀

03:05 - Why is resting and disconnecting the key to being “successful”?⠀

04:44 - What is confidence for Lauren and which role did it play in her path?⠀

06:35 - What are the conditions that contribute to having confidence?⠀

12:12 - What is the connection between confidence and learning?⠀

16:30 - Can confidence be learned?⠀

25:00 - How can someone work on improving their confidence?⠀

32:00 - What strategies have you found to make the constant pursuit of improving one’s confidence less daunting? ⠀

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References:⠀

Stride - https://stride.inc/⠀

UpFront - https://twitter.com/upfrontglobal⠀

Dunning–Kruger effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect⠀

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If you want to get in touch with Lauren, you can find her on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_laurencurrie_/ - and Twitter - https://twitter.com/_laurencurrie_⠀

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I would also love to hear from you! You can do that by going to our website - https://anchor.fm/learning-day - and leaving a voice message or reaching out on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/saramnramos/.⠀

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Thank you for listening 🎧❤️