So thank you all for joining. My name is Hannah Heb and I'm very excited, talk about this to more countries today to start. I'd like briefly um introduce myself. So my name is Hannah.I work as a management consultant at confidence slash career coach at my own company, delicate.com. Uh My background is in business. I have by more than 15 years of professional experience. I started off in corporate finance, working for cement and Pro and Gamble, then moved into management consulting, got very curious about entrepreneurship. So started um founded a start up, eventually went back to management consulting and added coaching along the way during my time as an one noticed there were so few women around and I really was curious about that. So I started digging deeper during my first talks on female empowerment imposter syndrome. And the one thing that was quoted again and again was that there's a lack of confidence and that's if that was the reason why women were underrepresented in those areas. And that was one of the first, you know, when I really got into curious to more about course and so I really wanted to better understand why we feel confident and how we can create more of those moments for myself, for my clients.

Because I know that once we push the limits, we can increase the number of female founders, we can just push ourselves. That's one reason why I'm really excited about that. And of course, now the downside like those moments when I'm lacking confident overall and I will share one story that I will bring up throughout my talk when I did my m yes at stern in the part time program. Um we also got graded on our class participation. So I figured if I raise my head two times per I will fine high school and college in never had any issues raising my voice, sharing what I was thinking. But suddenly I felt hugely intimidated. I had thoughts going through my head like I had IIC language. I was one of the youngest. So what do I have to offer? I like experience. I also compared myself to my fellow American classmates and you know, they are for them. It's so easy to just talk and talk. So in comparison, I said very smart and in those for sure, I would have wished to have more confidence and what is confidence anywhere. So I looked it up. Um Two things I would like to share confidence is the state of mind or in manner marked by easy coolness and freedom from uncertainty, dividends or embarrassment. Two confidence, faith in oneself and one's powers without suggestion of conceit or arrogance.

So what we just learned about it is that confidence is feeling a freedom from uncertainty and believing in ourselves. What I find so intriguing is that confidence is not linked to an, to how anybody else is perceiving us. It's all about us, how we believe in ourselves, how we feel the good news is also means we can start working in our confidence anytime. Why not? The bad news is maybe that's a alert, it's not gonna be easy, but you don't have to do it alone. So let's get started. I would like to invite you to go with me on a very brief journey. And for that just close your eyes. Think of a time in your professional life when you could say life just doesn't get any better than this. Maybe this time was a moment. Maybe even a day really bring to your mind the picture of yourself at that time. Imagine doing who is with you what the surroundings are like? What makes this time so rewarding? What are the colors here? The temperature, how does respond in this time in this place? Really? Get specific as you can take a moment to reflect what happened, what's going on? What was important to you in that moment? Is it worth face? I would ask you to have a brief chat with but now you reflect, ask yourself how you felt in that moment you right to it.

How are you being say if you were in a group of people or alone, were you firefighting some last minute exercise or doing an analysis or hosting an event? What made this experience rich and rewarding for you? And to, to, to give you an example on how you can use that when I did that exercise, one of my um peak moments, peak moments that came up was when I was on page at a conference for women talking about impostors. See my standing there connecting men was I some you were taking and afterwards I had one lady, she was hugging me telling me this meant something to her and it meant a word to me. And you can things that were important to me like empowering other people to make them au of themselves equality because we still got a long way to go. And also having like I like being on stage, I talk with my hands, big smile and I bet it same for you. Like it was for me in those moments, we feel authentic like we are our real us and there's no doubt in our mind, we are simply confident because that's us. And those moments we want to create more of.

And I'm mentioning now a little bit here and their values because they will come up there. And I looked it up again in the dictionary. So I found the value are defined as something such as a principle or quality, intrinsically valuable or desirable principles or standards of behavior.

Once you of what is important in life and coaching, we use it very similar. So we say it's attributes and attitudes that are who we are. And that part, I, I would like to stress values are who we are. They are not who we would like to be, not who we choose to be. It's simply a reflection of who we are in that moment and I put a list of different values on this slide and I'm sure that some of those speak to you not because you think, oh, that sounds fancy. It's more like that's you. That is something that is so important to you. And that's the interesting challenge to really find the values that define you and always ask yourself, is this something that is me at my best? Something can use as a compass to guide me in life. And that is a exercise that can take months like it's nothing we do in five minutes. But eventually, if it becomes very clear what your core values are and you can use them to really guide you. And you might wonder why values are important. So we already said they describe who you are.

You can use them as a blueprint for decision making, say and you are ever in doubt, you can go back to those things that define you that are like so important to you and then you can use them to remember who you are. And as a decision, help and the moment you start following and acting based on the things that are so important to you, you will feel an increase in your creativity, your flow and RC A confidence beca and if you don't do it right. It's like if you don't follow the things that are important to you, cause maybe you work in an environment that has values that are very different to yours, you will feel more alone and ashamed and also your confidence will decrease. So we have this link between living in your values and your confidence. So the more you live in your values, the more you increase the confidence level because you act to that are important and heard that living values is so good. So I wonder why don't we already on our values if they're that good? And I would like to go through it with, with you. Imagine you do this exercise and you realize that health health is your core value and really want to use as a guiding. You might adjust your diet to eat more nutritious food, pick up exercise to really have a regular exercise regime. Do mindfulness, meditation, to train your mind sleep 7 to 9 hours and create negative habits like smoking or drinking alcohol.

And isn't that if you take one core value in how many areas it can impact your life? And I say that's to me like that's also the beauty of it. Like it gives why, why you're doing things because that's the person you are and stick, for example, for a little moment because I bet it's like your people, you, you tell them, hey, health is court. I'm sure will applaud you. I mean it does awesome. Right. But then if you go deeper, you go out, they order gin you order juice. Come on one drink doesn't hurt. Maybe you don't even wanna go out because you wanna hit the gym and then sleep enough. Come on, you can sleep when you're dead. Oh You go to that fast food place anymore. Oh Come on, you became so lame on top of that. You might hear a little voice up there. You're no athlete, you cannot pull off that regime or if you continue that this have any left and that is why it's so hard to honor your values because basically you need to step up and confirm your values. Confirm what is important to you every single day. And if you do that eventually you will train.

Must you express who you are and you do what is right for you in the situation that means you act within your integrity and by that you grow faith in yourself and you feel less uncertainty because you know what you're doing. And as that again, this shows the strong link between living in your values and growing your confidence. And the quote that I find like, inspires me so much courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It's just to show that this year this trans living in values towards living a confident life that you yourself, you feel free from uncertainty, but you're still nice about it. It's a transformation. It and one thing we already touched based on is those voices, right? Like, oh, shut up. Back to my initial example, I heard a voice. I'm a foreigner. I have an, I have an accent. I have nothing to contribute. And I wasted energy on that and we can call those voices, right? I mean, those voices, we can call them saboteurs, inner critics and self tasks. Why do they show up? So they come, they come in moments when change is becoming a real possibility when you are in a situa situation where you are outside of your comfort zone and you're pushing for something new. They can come up.

They take a piece of truth, twisted distort it, stretch it and build up a big argument to stop you from a path of transformation. And that makes it really, really difficult. Let's just make up an example. Imagine you want to change your job function, like go into something different and you might hear an immediate voices saying like, hey, you didn't do your masters in that area. You've never done it before, don't even apply. It's not gonna work and that's harsh. Right. So those voices, they show up when you want to change something that's a big challenge for you. You go out of your comfort zone and that's when they come and do it because to keep the status quo, they want you not to change because they want to protect you. And it's so at any time when you go out of your comfort zone, you're waking up the dragon. And in those moments, it's hard to keep all this faith in ourselves. So they can't believe in ourselves and feel so sure of things. So I'm sure you must have won. What can we do to reduce the chatter, chatter of those voices? So I go about it in three steps. The first one is acknowledging it, then looking at it objectively and changing our perspective.

My exam, I'm not foreign with an accent, acknowledge I hear the like present and that I was on when I look objectively, I do have that my native takes if I'm 5, 10 years younger, I have less say life experience, it's all true. But instead of looking at it from perspective, be friend, not fitting it. I for myself, I should look at it from the perspective of being proud of myself of how far I being from a small town in Germany, being different is beautiful. And I I will show you the same thing with the example we just made up. You want to change your heart function, we head out, you didn't do your masters in it. You've never done it before. Nobody will hire you. It's harsh. It, there are facts in it. So when we look at it objectively because it's a change. So I highly doubt you did education in it. So I done it. And that is true. But you're always bringing transferable skills and being from a different area, you have a different look at things and that is the definition of bringing down. And if change, you are highly motivated and adding that up, doesn't that sound like a winner? So really it, every time you hear those doubts acknowledge it's there and then look at what is the piece of truth in it, like piece of truth that is true.

And that is also the reason why you buy in why you listen to those voices because they do have a little point. It's just the overall, the one that I sense, you will realize that when you look at it different from a different anger and once you give less power to your inner critics, you will grow faith in yourself and in your powers. And that does mean you become more confident. And with that, all I have left is at home now. So what did we learn? The first one is really, is that your values define who you are and honoring your values is tough and it takes courage and standing up to those inner critics every day. But if you do that, if you honor your, if you honor is important to you and you follow that you will grow your confidence muscle and you will feel um the towards yourself and that will make you default more confident. So the last thing I want to say it have to do it. If your cur is said to learn more, how to tackle your inner credits, how to become a confident, feel, free to work with me.

I offer you a free complimentary coaching session, which you can book on my website on dele.com. You can also connect on linkedin Instagram. So put the handles here and with that, I would like to thank you so much for joining today and I'm looking forward to um interacting with many of you and wish you a fantastic day.