The confidence experiment and how you can feel more brave in your pet business

About this episode

This episode explores the challenges of confidence faced by pet business owners and shares insights from a confidence experiment workshop.

Confidence is an area that comes up as a challenge with the pet business owners I work with over and over again. When you're running a business on your own, you're already doing really brave things and taken the big risks. Yet, so often, things will make us question ourselves. I ran a workshop and a 'confidence experiment' in my membership to look at this, in particular asking people to ask themselves, 'Why do I feel confident doing some things but not others?' And more importantly, 'What can I do about it?' What came out of both was so interesting, and there was so much helpful and supportive advice shared, so I wanted to put together a podcast and blog. Key topics and timings: 0.20: Episode overview. 0.50: What is confidence and why I chose it as the theme for March in Pets Get Visible. 2.01: Why I felt wobbly about covering this topic. 3.29: What confidence means to different people. 4.14: Why you don’t have to feel confident to do the brave thing. 4.37: The areas where pet pros would love to feel more confident. 5.06: Where people feel at ease with pet pro examples. 7.53: Taking notice of where you feel confident and what’s different. 9.24: The reasons that lie underneath us…

People in this episode

Host: Rachel Spencer

Topics covered

• confidence
• pet business
• bravery
• self-doubt
• personal development
• workshop insights

Keywords

• confidence
• pet business
• self-confidence
• entrepreneurship
• personal growth
• workshop
• bravery

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