Lucy Allen is a career and confidence coach based in Melbourne. In episode 5 of the Product Lounge Podcast, Lucy and I have an impactful conversation about what it takes to begin something new and how the path usually involves navigating a full spectrum of confounding emotions and feelings.

For anyone who's ever thought about starting a new venture or is in the midst of fear and doubt, then this episode is for YOU. Here's some of the gems inside:

•How fear and limiting beliefs can be dressed up as bona fide fact and how to recognise this falsehood and move past this into action

•How considering and framing different metrics for success within a new venture can be a helpful way of moving forward through doubt

•Why changing the measures for our product brand's success through the Covid 19 crisis is so critical, where our normal benchmarks may not be available.

•How vision is the mechanism for anchoring into confidence when experiencing doubt and how doing the things that scare you actually builds confidence

•The new beginnings lifecycle, through excitement, fear, scariness and messiness, to achievement and happiness - it is a process and it's all normal!

•Lucy also gives us a few really fantastic coaching tools, including playing out a fear to its worst case scenario in order to work through it, a celebrating daily wins practice, and how writing down & talking about fears can keep you moving forwards.

Lucy also shares with us her own, very recent, amazing and beautiful story of a scary, exciting and rewarding new beginning!

Podcast resources from this episode:

The Graceful Collective website - https://www.thegracefulcollective.com/

Writer Brianna Wiest - https://www.briannawiest.com/

Book - the Confidence Gap by Russ Harris