Have you ever been hurt? Like really hurt? It feels as if the pain is physical and you feel so alone. It’s like there is no one you can talk to, no one who can support you or understand what you are going through. Maybe some people get part of it or want to support you but they just don’t understand at the deepest level what you are experiencing. You've separated yourself and are disconnected. I want to help you reconnect with these strategies.

Developing your Personal Presence is like developing your personal brand. It is what you are on the inside, reflected to the outside world. It’s how you present yourself in a consistent, confident manner and it’s based on 3 things – How you act, how you speak and how you look. That's why it's the 7th Step to Building Confidence.

Be yourself…Yeah, yeah… You’ve heard it before but what does this really mean? One definition of “authentic” is having the origin supported by unquestionable evidence; authenticated; verified. Evidence of what? Verified against what? Well, that’s easy. It’s who you are and what you stand for. What’s important to you.

The thinking habits that allow us to be efficient, to grow, to be creative, etc. are beneficial to us, but it’s the thinking habits that don’t serve us that become the problem and this is where we need to retrain our brains. That's why the fourth step to building confidence is Training YOUR Brain.

As I prepare for a keynote I’ll be delivering next week on Confidence and as a mid-life woman striving to live a life that is “fabulous after forty” (and heading fast for fifty), I've compiled the necessary steps and this is a first in a series of blogs about the 7...

Get out of it! If all you’re going to do is all you've ever done then how do you expect to grow as a person? You have to be willing to go for new and different even if it seems scary, which leads me to point number 2. Go for new and scary. There are two kinds of...