What You'll Discover In This Episode:
In Nicole Kalil’s mid to late twenties, she was moving up quickly within her Fortune 100 finance firm and looked the part of the confident, independent woman on the rise. The problem was, how it looked externally didn’t match how Nicole felt internally.
Every day, Nicole put on a show when she stepped into the firm. She showed up in a way that met everyone’s expectations of her. On the inside, she was lonely which led an above-average spending problem to go with her above-average income. Up close, it wasn’t a pretty picture. It was a sad one.
What Nicole recognized was that people were often commenting on her confidence even though she didn’t feel confident. This ignited a fire in Nicole to learn more about what confidence truly is, develop her own, and unlock how one can build confidence for themselves. Like so many business owners, she wound up turning her pain into her passion and into her purpose. Today, Nicole is obsessed with the topic of confidence and has made a successful career out of sharing her knowledge and helping others develop true confidence and trust in themselves.
As Nicole so wisely said, “Confidence isn’t, ‘I know what I’m doing.’ Confidence is, ‘I’ll figure it out.’
Do you want to learn how you can build confidence and harness it to be a more effective, successful business owner? Then tune into today’s episode of Productivity Straight Talk in which I sit down with author and leader strategist, Nicole Kalil, to take a deep dive into all things confidence.
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About Guest:
Nicole’s passion for eliminating gender expectations and redefining “Woman’s Work” is both what keeps her up at night, and what gets her up in the morning. Well that, and an abundant amount of coffee.
An in-demand speaker, author of Validation is For Parking, leadership strategist, respected coach, and host of the “This Is Woman’s Work” Podcast, her stalker-like obsession with confidence sets her apart from the constant stream of experts telling us to BE confident. She actually shares HOW you build it, and gives actionable tools you can implement immediately.
A fugitive of the C-suite at a Fortune 100 company, she has coached hundreds of women in business, which has given her insight as to what – structurally, systemically and socially – is and isn’t serving both women and leaders within an organization.
Maintaining some semblance of sanity in her different roles of wife, mother, and business owner successfully is an ongoing challenge... in whatever free time she has, she enjoys reading and wine guzzling, is an avid cheese enthusiast, a hotel snob, and a reluctant peloton rider.
