EP 235: Closing the Confidence Gap with Guest Expert Kelli Thompson

The Bridge to Fulfillment

Society hasn’t made it easy for women to get a seat at the table.

And often when we sit down in one of those coveted chairs, it’s immediately clear that we still make up a very small percentage of the voices in the room.

In order for things to change, we have to change.

And it all starts with closing the confidence gap.

Today on The Bridge to FulfillmentⓇ, Blake welcomes Kelli Thompson, a women’s leadership coach and speaker who helps women advance to the rooms where decisions are made. She has coached and trained hundreds of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. She is the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and author of the critically acclaimed book, Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to start shifting the limiting beliefs that have been preventing you from building the confidence you deserve. You’ll hear examples of what it feels like to ignore the cues from your body and what it feels like to listen and act on your intuition. You’ll hear some of the most common myths about women in leadership and learn how to push them to the side and move closer to the success that you deserve.

What You’ll Learn:

• What Kelli did differently to get into the rooms where decisions were being made (8:31)

• Paving a new path toward success as a woman (11:54)

• How to create boundaries as an entrepreneur (15:58)

• Learning to listen to your gut and check in with your body (22:05)

• How to figure out what you want and what you don’t want for your life (29:35)

• Work myths that need busting (31:33)

Favorite Quotes:

1. I just often think back, hindsight being 2020, how much I limited myself because I couldn't see women in those senior rooms. I just had so many more limiting beliefs at that time. And I was like, you know what, this needs to change. –Kelli Thompson

2. One of the biggest things that changed my life was learning to invest in myself. And I think that as a society, men learn how to do this more than women. –Blake

3. What I saw was the women that were at the top of the organizations I worked at, not all of them, but by and large, the vast majority, were really unhappy, very angry, sacrificed, tremendously, and had zero work-life balance. And I remember thinking to myself at certain points, I want to move up in my career, but not like that. –Blake

4. Be something different lead in a way that makes you feel good lead in a way that's in alignment to your values, so that the younger women in the office, look at you and say, I want that. –Kelli Thompson

5. I am going to make trusting your gut sexy in corporate America again. –Kelli Thompson

Additional Resources:

Connect with Kelli Thompson:

Website: www.Kelliraethompson.com

Book: closingtheconfidencegap.com/book

Freebie: Free Career Clarity Guide

Kelliraethompson.com/careerclarityguide

Social media:

Instagram: @kelliraethompson

Linkedin: in/kelliraethompson

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com