Career Growth for Working Women | Career Advancement, Visibility, Promotion, Raises

134 | Why High-Performing Women Still Don’t Feel Confident

Shannon Fox | Promotion & Compensation Coach Episode 134

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Have you ever looked around at other people in leadership and thought: “They just seem so much more confident than I am.”

In this solo episode, Shannon explores why so many high-performing women privately struggle with confidence even while consistently producing leadership-level results.

Through stories from coaching conversations, Shannon explains how women often:

  • dismiss accomplishments emotionally
  • normalize growth quickly
  • focus only on gaps and shortcomings
  • move the goalpost every time they succeed

The result is a painful disconnect…Women creating measurable impact professionally while privately questioning whether they’re “ready” for bigger opportunities.

This episode explores why confidence is often misunderstood entirely.

Many women believe confidence is supposed to come first: 
➡️ first you feel confident 
➡️ then you speak up 
➡️ then you advocate for yourself 
➡️ then you pursue leadership opportunities

But in reality, confidence is often built through evidence.

In this episode, Shannon discusses: 
✔️ Why many high-performing women still feel insecure 
✔️ The emotional habit of dismissing accomplishments 
✔️ Why achievers constantly move the goalpost on success 
✔️ The difference between emotional thinking and evidence-based confidence 
✔️ Why women struggle during promotion conversations 
✔️ How self-doubt grows when accomplishments are never fully absorbed 
✔️ Why confidence is built through clarity, not perfection 
✔️ The power of creating an “evidence of impact” document

She also shares a practical exercise listeners can begin using immediately to build grounded confidence through documented evidence instead of emotional self-criticism.

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