Coach Yourself Confident - by Julie Smith (Paperback)

About the Book

Packed with ideas, stories and practices to help close the confidence gap, Coach Yourself Confident is a guidebook for individuals who recognize that their confidence lags behind their capability.

Book Synopsis

***WINNER getAbstract International Book Award 2024 - Business Impact, Readers' Choice***

**Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**

**The People's Book Prize Longlisted Title 2024/25**

"I devoured every page of this wonderfully written book." - Sergio Ezama, Chief Talent Officer, Netflix

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. You're compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.

Or perhaps you're feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.

This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real-life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

From the Back Cover

"I devoured every page of this wonderfully written book." - Sergio Ezama, Chief Talent Officer, Netflix

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. You're compensating for a lack of confidence with excessive effort and punishingly high standards.

Or perhaps you're feeling frustrated and unfulfilled? Self-doubt is making you hold yourself back, you're avoiding challenges that could demonstrate how good you really are.

This book can help. Distilling over a decade of real- life research into clear insights, practical tools and impactful activities, Julie Smith shows you how to Coach Yourself Confident.

Julie Smith is a sought-after executive coach and facilitator who works with leaders to grow their impact and supports teams to grow their effectiveness. Find out more at www.talentsprout.co.uk.

Review Quotes

A useful resource to keep close to hand to refer back to, as our confidence levels ebb and flow depending upon the slings and arrows that life throws at us. Read with an open mind in a spirit of curiosity, it offers best practice to recognise bad habits or ingrained self-doubt. 'Coach Yourself Confident' can set you on the road to freeing yourself from your inner critic and unlocking your hidden potential. - Entertainment Focus

Cards on the table, I know the author. But all that means is I can validate the content even more. The concepts are brilliant and put together in practical and easy ways with tips to help you land them yourself. As a read its so easy to step in an out of, but I reckon once you have started it you won't put it down. - LinkedIn

An absolute standout book for anyone looking to boost their self-confidence. - Amazon 5*

Julie Smith has an incredible way of writing that feels as though I am in a physical coaching space with her! From start to finish, Coach Yourself Confident is packed full of practical (highly accessible) exercises, meaningful story telling and such a sense of honesty. - Amazon 5*

Once in a while a self help book comes along that you want to pop in your bag, either to share with a client or to enjoy again...Julie Smith's new book...is such a book - it offers an enjoyable first read, but potential multiple reuses with exercises, insights and ideas to add to your own coaching practice, or to share with others for their own journeys. - Jonathan Passmore, LinkedIn

This is not just a book--it's a transformative experience waiting to be embraced. I encourage you to seize the opportunity to acquire this gem; its ease of comprehension belies its profound impact, making it a valuable addition to any library! - Sally Brys, LinkedIn

About the Author

Julie Smith, founder of leadership consultancy Talent Sprout, is a sought-after coach who has been supporting leaders to grow their confidence for three decades. Through this real-world research she has developed, tested and honed frameworks and tools that unleash conscious confidence.