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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Tricia Conyers’s Confidence Is Action is a practical self-help book for women who have been taught to treat confidence as a feeling, title, or public performance instead of a daily practice. Conyers uses a wedding conversation after leaving a twenty-year corporate career, when one cutting remark exposes how easily another person’s view can mar a new beginning. She identifies three confidence myths, explains the brain’s safety response to uncertainty, and asks readers to define confidence through metaphors drawn from real women. The Confidence Wheel gives readers a useful way to see where their own confidence needs practice. The personal accounts move the ideas into real life, as women name what they want and start behaving accordingly, with purpose, in their own lives.
Tricia Conyers’s Confidence Is Action is a useful self-help book, and Conyers is at her best when she turns a big idea into a step a reader can take today. I found the risk-reward ratio fantastic, because it asks readers to score the upside against the realistic downside before making a move. It gives fear a number instead of letting it run the room. I also loved Jodi Mathura’s Galt & Littlepage story, because inheriting her father’s company gives the advice a real business test. Jodi first tries to lead by copying the man whose name and methods built the company, but the stronger lesson comes when she stops borrowing his style and begins making decisions that fit her own. Conyers writes with the firm encouragement of a coach who has been where many of us are and absolutely wants to help raise us up. Well written and meaningful, women seeking self-help with real exercises will adore this.