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 32: Real Confidence- Everyday Emotional Murders

Everyday Emotional Murders Of all the ways our confidence can get kicked - failure, regret or rejection - it’s rejection that hits us the hardest. If we fail at something or make a decision that didn’t turn out...
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Ep 31: Real Confidence- How to Deal with a Toxic Boss with Special Guest Aidan Millar

How to Deal with a Toxic Boss with Aidan Millar Listen, I know this is a hot topic, but let’s get one thing out of the way: there’s no single, clear-cut definition of a toxic boss. The person who destroyed you may be...
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Ep 30: Real Confidence- The Confidence to Own Your Health with Special Guest Andy Storch

The Confidence to Own Your Health with Andy Storch If you’ve been hanging around in my orbit for a while, you probably know my confidence crusade origin story and how ACI came to be. It started when my older son was...
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Ep 29: Real Confidence- How to be Confidently Pissed Off

How to be Confidently Pissed Off It may not seem it on the outside but I am easily aggravated. And when I'm tired, or a lot of stuff is going on, I have to fight hard to stay ‘nice’ and not give someone a piece of...
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Ep 28: Real Confidence- Confident Sex Talk with Liz Dube

One of my all-time favorite TV shows is one from the UK called Sex Education. It’s got engaging and relatable characters, takes on controversial social issues with honesty and grace,  plus, it's often hilarious - an...
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Ep 27: Real Confidence- Can You Hack Confidence?

Can you hack confidence? Without fail, at every keynote or workshop I deliver, someone asks me, “What are the easiest, fastest confidence hacks?” It’s a natural question, right? Especially when I share the research...
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Ep 26: Real Confidence- Stop Looking for Purpose & Happiness at Work with Special Guest Bruna De Palo

Stop Looking for Purpose & Happiness at Work with Bruna De Palo Wait. What? Aren’t we supposed to aspire to do work that gives us purpose and makes us happy? Even if it’s not all the time, at least some of the...
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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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