Confident Creator with Derek L. Zboran
When we stop striving and start becoming, creative joy naturally follows. Confident Creator is your invitation to rediscover creative joy through science, story, and playful action. Join Derek L. Zboran each week as he experiments with positive psychology tools in real life, talks with inspiring creators, and unpacks the science of less striving and more becoming. This is your strengths-based space for creative growth! A production of Golden Fleece Books.
Confident Creator with Derek L. Zboran
Becoming Bold: Betty Rhoades on Creative Confidence
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Creativity is less of a destination and more of a fermentation. In this episode, Derek talks with Betty Rhoades, certified sommelier and speaking coach, about the long, unpredictable process of becoming. Join us as we explore career reinvention, the power of metaphor, and why confident communication starts with structure, not scripts.
What We Covered:
- Why Betty traded two decades in public service for wine at San Francisco's secret wine bar.
- The career coaching conversation that revealed surprising through lines between wine, speaking, and growth.
- How to see outside the box you've built around your own identity.
- Betty's coaching philosophy: structure over scripts, your words over borrowed ones.
- Silence as a speaker's secret weapon.
- The mindset that sustains the journey: speaking kindly to yourself while you're still becoming.
- What Betty would tell her 21-year-old self about patience and not having it figured out.
- Wine wisdom for creators... Just because it's in the bottle doesn't mean it's ready to drink.
Connect with Betty Rhoades:
- TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/JJ8OniLQk0A?si=ayTS4-KBPT3GwJmW
- Website: https://bettyrhoades.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bettyrhoadesspeaks
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettyrhoadesspeaks/