Real Confidence

Real Confidence

Hosted by: Alyssa Dver

Real confidence isn't situational or temporary. It's a learned skill that anyone can master at any time. Join host Alyssa Dver, CEO of The American Confidence Institute, 7-time author, 2-time TEDx and empowering...

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Ep 25: Real Confidence- Mean People Suck

Mean People Suck I've been wanting to do this podcast forever and, I’m guessing, because How to Deal with Grown-Up Bullies is our most popular episode to date, you’ve been wanting me to do it, too.  Mean people -...
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EP 24: Real Confidence- How to Have Difficult Conversations with Confidence with Special Guest Roberta Matuson

How to Have Difficult Conversations with Confidence Confrontation. The word by itself can make us want to run, hide, or bury our head in the sand. We avoid confrontation because we don’t have certainty around how the...
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EP 23: Real Confidence- Thank You, But …

Thank you, but …  No one gets out of this thing called life with experiencing rejection. Big rejections, little rejections, personal rejections, not-so-personal rejections ... and every one of them sucks.  It’s easy...
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Ep 22: Real Confidence- Selling with Confidence with Meshell R. Baker

Sales isn’t just about products and services. We sell ourselves to recruiters and hiring managers when we change jobs, sell our family on where to spend the next vacation, and friends on why we pick for book club pick...
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Ep 21: Real Confidence- Can You Dress for Yourself AND Success?

Can You Dress for Yourself AND Success? You know when I was a kid, I had two sets of clothes. One for school and one for play. We’d come home in the afternoon, change outfits and move in the next, inarguably more fun...
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Ep 20: Real Confidence- Dealing with Gossip at Work and Otherwise

Dealing with Gossip at Work and Otherwise Gossip is so common, in fact that I don't think we notice it half the time. Not just that it’s happening around us, but that we are also unconsciously participating in it...
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Ep 19: Real Confidence- The Confidence to Be Your Own Boss with Special Guest Natalie Benamou

The Confidence to Be Your Own Boss with Natalie Benamou Some of us have always known we want to work for ourselves. Others fall into entrepreneurship by chance or necessity and still others step onto the...
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Ep 18: Real Confidence- Yay Me! But No One Cares

Yay, me! But No One Cares. Picture this: you’ve just done something hard. Remarkable. Personally or professionally meaningful. You nailed it and you want the world to know. You post it on your social media channels,...
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Ep 17: Real Confidence- People We’re Allergic To

People We’re Allergic To: Who brings out the worst in you?  Is it a family member, a frenemy, your boss, a colleague or a certain personality type?  What happens when you’re triggered by them, and your worst self...
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Ep 16: Real Confidence- How Degrees & Certifications Often Reduce Confidence - with Special Guest Jeanette Winters

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve talked to someone who thinks – and hopes – that the best way to gain more confidence is to pursue a degree, a certification - or several of each! But every one of these well...
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Ep 15: Real Confidence- When Your Confidence Boost Backfires

Has this ever happened to you? You sign up for a workshop, seminar or conference that promises to help you feel more confident, productive or otherwise improve an aspect of your life or yourself.  The speaker is...
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Ep 14: Real Confidence- The Confidence to Be Funny - with Special Guest Brooklyn Dicent

Get ready to giggle! This week’s guest is someone who came into my life when she became an ACI certified confidence coach and every time I talk to her, I feel so blessed.  Not only is she a stellar human being and one...
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