The Hidden Psychology of Confident People (Ally Love)
7/17/202654 min
*Doing It Anyway with Katty Kay*
What is the ultimate confidence hack anyone can build? How can you handle early career failure without losing confidence? And, what’s the best way of feeling fear, and doing it anyway?
Katty Kay is joined by Ally Love, Peloton instructor and entrepreneur, to answer all these questions and more.
Email: doingitanyway@goalhanger.com
Video Editor: Kieron Leslie
Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Celine Charles
Producer: Fiona Douglas, India Dunkley
Executive Producer: Tom Whiter
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First 90 secondsKatty Kay· Host0:01
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Doing It Anyway, the show where we rethink challenges, grow our confidence, and learn how to do it anyway. Today I'm speaking with somebody who had their confidence tested at a really young age. Ally Love is known around the world as a fitness instructor with Peloton. She is loved for her energy and her personality, everything that she brings to her classes. But you'd never guess that at the age of nine, Ally faced the possibility of never even being able to walk again, let alone do all of the things that she has done. And yet, her perspective and her optimism is totally infectious. You can just tell by speaking to her that she has thought a lot about resilience and overcoming hurdles, and she's got some great tricks and tips that she shared with me. Spotting the good no's that we all get in life, what she means when she says it's time to boss up, realizing that progress in overcoming hurdles can be in those very small steps that you might even not notice, and this one I really loved, a counterintuitive trick for doing it when you're afraid. So if you want to find out how to show up for yourself when all of the odds seem against you, this is for you. Here's