Lost Your Confidence After Becoming a Mum? How to Find It Again at Work

Have you recently said to yourself "I used to be really good at this before I had kids"?

Returning to work after parental leave can bring a mix of emotions. You may have years of experience behind you, but suddenly you’re questioning yourself, worrying about how others perceive you, and questioning if you can still perform at the level you did before.

And often it’s not that you’ve lost your capability, your confidence has taken a hit.

In this episode of the Working Mumma Podcast, I chat with confidence and visibility expert Bec Sands about why women often hold themselves back at work, why confidence can feel particularly difficult after becoming a mum, and what you can actually do to rebuild it.

In this episode we chat about:

• Returning to work after maternity leave when your confidence is already starting from zero
• How Bec's IVF journey reshaped her relationship with confidence
• Why "confidence comes from action," not the other way around
• The truth about the 8-hour workday and debunking myths
• Practical, low-time strategies for building visibility at work when you have none to spare
• How to catch and reframe the limiting self-talk that's running the show
• What self-efficacy actually means, and how to build it one hard thing at a time

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• Website & book: cameheretocreate.com
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