Do you feel like you have to hide your true identity at work? Do you have dual personalities at work and home? An inauthentic life can be exhausting and could lead to underperformance at work. Once you’re true to yourself, everything flows effortlessly. But how do you bring your authentic self and confidence to work?
In this episode, Jen Smollet and her guest, Sarah Fawcett, join us to explore how to bring your authentic self to work confidently. Jen is an accredited women’s leadership coach who focuses on supporting individuals to build confidence at work in who they are and what they can achieve. Sarah has recently learned to bring her authentic self to work, and she lets us in on the secrets to confidently being yourself and the benefits this transition has brought to her life.
In this session, Jen shares how you can confidently bring your authentic self to work, understand what it means to be authentic, identify your values, and improve your performance, sense of fulfilment, and happiness both at home and at work. Jen also explains where to start your journey toward being your authentic self.
You can also listen to our podcast episode with Jen on the Work It Like A Mum podcast here and discover how to overcome biases to achieve authenticity and success in the workplace in this LinkedIn Live replay here.
Highlights From The Episode
[01:14] About Jen Smollet
[02:00] About Sarah Fawcett
[03:06] Meaning of authentic self
[04:13] Knowing yourself and your values
[06:20] Why do people feel they can’t always be themselves
[11:52] The benefits of being your authentic self
[14:49] Do you need to make massive progress on your journey to being your authentic self at work?
[16:52] How to identify your values
[19:34] Advice to anyone on a journey to being their authentic self
[27:42] Jen’s group coaching session
[30:06] How to be confident in retraining and upscaling at an old age
[32:54] To connect with Jen
[33:39] To connect with Sarah
Notable Quotes
- “When you allow yourself to be true to yourself, things will come easy. They flow so easily.”
- “Once you know who you are and identify your values, what’s important to you and what’s not, everything falls in place and becomes clear.”
- “When you think of what might happen if you do this, and what happens if I said that. That’s not productive at all, and you realise you do what’s most important to you, and that’s what matters.”
- “We may think that we need in life to make these huge changes in how we feel, but actually, it is the small changes. You don’t have to make huge changes.”
- “Often what people think or what you think they think is not true.”
- “It’s not inauthentic to not tell everybody everything.”
Resources
To identify your values:
To connect with Jen Smollet:
To connect with Sarah Fawcett:
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