Coach Yourself Confident: Ditch the self-doubt tax, unlock humble confidence

by Julie Smith

Want to be more confident at work? You’re not alone. So many of us grapple with self-doubt. Perhaps you’re an exhausted achiever? You’re delivering results and progressing in your career, but you feel utterly worn out. The price for your achievement is exhaustion because you compensate for a lack of confidence with hard work, over preparation and punishingly high standards. Or perhaps you’re feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? You’re not achieving as much as you could, you feel overlooked at work. Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back and stay small. You step back from challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are. You overthink and you avoid risk. This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, sought-after executive coach Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident .

240 pages, Paperback

Published February 20, 2024

About the author

Author of 20 mystery novels and a YA paranormal adventure called BAD GIRL SCHOOL (formerly CURSEBUSTERS!). Nine of the mysteries are about a female New Orleans cop Skip Langdon, five about a San Francisco lawyer named Rebecca Schwartz,two about a struggling mystery writer named Paul Mcdonald (whose fate no one should suffer) and four teaming up Talba Wallis, a private eye with many names, a poetic license, and a smoking computer, with veteran P.I. Eddie Valentino.

In Bad GIRL SCHOOL, a psychic pink-haired teen-age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city. Hint:It HAS to be done before 2012!


Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that being NEW ORLEANS MOURNING.

Former reporter for the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE and the San Francisco CHRONICLE.

Recently licensed private investigator, and thereon hangs a tale.

Resident of New Orleans, Louisiana

Reviews

[Lexie Jacobs · Rating 4 out of 5]

As part of my self-help month (new year, new me), I am continuing to read books on how to ditch self-doubt and work on your confidence. This one is not as quirky, fun or relatable as the last one I read. But it was still helpful.

The reflections and activities didn’t always relate to me though. They were all work related. My confidence problems stem from personal or familial causes. I can try to tweak the situation around a little but it didn’t make sense in the context that the book provided.

Although not relatable, the author is professional and kind. She seems very knowledgeable. I’m sure she’s very successful in her field.

Even though the activities didn’t always relate to me, I can still use some of the author’s advice to help me become more humbly confident in myself.

[Claire Pedrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book for everyone. Not an easy read as it’s full of compassionate challenge and there’s work to be done here! straightforward and easy to read. I love Julie’s honesty and the cast of named individuals willing to share their own back stories to help us the readers look at our own.

Just enough content to get us thinking and plenty of space for us to reflect, make our own meaning and try things out.

Definitely a book for anyone who wants to look at confidence differently. One to read. One to give away.

(And it’s a great read for coaches who want to find a way to ask clear questions and move away from check in questions that are a version of ‘am I any good at this?’)

[Katey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have recently been promoted to a management position. This book helped me combat my imposter syndrome. The author gave very thorough and actionable plans an how improve confidence in many different situations. I took lots of notes & highlighted large portions of the book. I can’t wait to use these theories in my everyday life.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an eARC for an honest review.

[Stephanie04 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book gives ideas of how to work on increasing confidence in various areas of life. It has different exercises to complete to work on this. It was interesting, but not as gripping as other books in this genre that I've read.

[mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

the best book on this topic

Very insightful and very practical. Following the book and doing the reflection exercises, I got the answer where my self- doubt comes from. I know how to deal with “him” now.

[Sue Burkett · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very inspiring guide to finding self-confidence. Each chapter is easy to read with exercises to encourage you to reflect and take action, particularly if you need confidence in a work situation. The summing up at the end of each chapter is really useful. A book to keep around in your daily life.

[J W R Howlett · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent book

Excellent book that really resonated. Packed with real life examples which brings it to life. Lots of practical exercises .