My Story of Becoming a Confident Leader

By Joyan Chan, Contributor

I wish I could tell you I was always the confidence queen, but the truth is, I wasn’t. When I was struggling with depression and lack of purpose, I never thought I would be where I am today - a confident leader in my industry. But everything changes when I received my greatest calling to share my stories.

Instead of waiting for someone to rescue me, I became my own catalyst for change.

serve, crystal clear messaging, visibility, expert-positioning, storytelling, showing up consistently, and working on my mindset EVERYDAY.

On this journey, we all have to pivot, persist, or feel doubts and we all could use a little more self-confidence. Self-confidence is easy to spot but hard to develop. Let me share my top 4 confidence tips to help you become the most authentically confident version of yourself.

1. Stop caring what people think

One of the biggest fears that holds people back is the fear of other people’s judgement. Especially when it comes to putting yourself out there and sharing who you are.

However, constantly seeking others approval or thinking what other people think (which we will never know), only robs us of our selfconfidence.

You have to recognize that how others see you really don’t matter, but how you see yourself is EVERYTHING.

As long as you love yourself enough to walk in your purpose, do what’s true to you, and take aligned actions to keep showing up for yourself and your clients, you will learn to start listening to your own intuition, and stop worrying about other people’s judgment.

2. Say yes to the next version of yourself

When I first started showing up, I immediately knew that I wanted to be a public speaker to inspire and empower others, and I now often find myself speaking in front of hundreds of people! Because I embraced “saying yes,” in the first year, I kept making videos and speaking in front of camera even there was no audience, I filmed myself and put it out there, again and again. Soon, I started attracting speaking opportunities, and I accepted every speaking engagement that came my way.

Saying yes means having faith in the person you’re becoming and showing up as that version of yourself each day. It’s giving yourself permission to attract the life you want to live and live the life you want to attract.

3. Develop your own style of visibility

Visibility and confidence isn’t always about being in the spotlight or the loudest person in a room. Being visible looks different to each person because visibility isn’t a one-size-fits-all. Your job is to figure out what works for you and create your own style of visibility, whether it’s public speaking, being creative with reels, writing blogs or making videos.

The idea is to bring your own energy, style and personality to everything you do and create and it’s going to help your business stand out. It will up-level your own brand of confidence and allow you to find and connect with clients with ease, confidence and joy. You need aligned visibility strategies, not following cookie-cutter approach.

4. Celebrate every small wins

When was the last time you celebrated yourself? Many of us were taught not to celebrate ourselves.

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