Well, in today’s episode that is exactly what we are addressing – what being confident as F is all about, and who better to speak on this than coach, podcast host, and author of Confident as F*ck: How to Ditch Bad Vibes, Clean Up Your Past, and Cultivate Confidence in Order to Make Your Dreams a Reality, Elle Russ.

Too often people confuse confidence with bravado or performance. But the most confident people are sometimes the quietest people in the room. That may not be the insight you’d expect from the author of a book called “Confident as F*ck”.

Confidence is something that seems elusive to so many of us. If you identify as shy or an introvert, you might feel like it’s a quality that’s simply out of reach for you. But confidence isn’t only for loud, outgoing people. And if showing up authentically and speaking your mind is something you admire in others.

It is so easy to share the struggles of those who aren’t confident, and yet, when you are confident, alpha, and powerful, there are a surprising handful of pitfalls to overcome. Listen in to learn how to navigate both ends of the spectrum and be truly confident. Elle shares the value of vulnerability, tools to be confident, and accessible.

Elle talks with 18 Summers and gives us tips on creating a family environment that breeds confidence, minimizes trauma, and helps you deal with shame.

Elle's personal challenges, how innate it confidence? Getting rid of parental garbage. Confident people pitfalls, confidence in some areas of your life but not others.

What is confidence? Why do we want to be confident in life and how can that shift the way we live? The pitfalls of being a confident person and what you can do to avoid those mistakes. How belief instilled upon you in childhood can play out over and over again in your life until you learn from it. The effects of being a downer.

While confidence is a natural state of being for a lot of people, it is something that you can learn even if it doesn’t come easily to you. Elle Russ, writer and author of Confidence as Fu*k, joins me to talk about what led her to pursue confidence as a career.

Elle Russ is a writer, speaker, and host of Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint Podcast. She is the leading voice of thyroid health in the Paleo, Primal, and Ancestral Health movements. Elle is the author of the bestselling book The Paleo Thyroid Solution, and in this episode, we discuss her new book, CONFIDENT AS F*CK.

Are you striving to be your best self physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually? A complete transformation requires more than a surface level of self-examination. Complete transformation means we release shame and guilt so we can be our true, authentic selves bounding with confidence and self-esteem.

How to tap into vulnerability that will create massive attraction and yes, we are talking to you alpha females.

Do you know how to be truly confident? If you can get on stage in front of 50,000 people and speak, but you can't have an intimate conversation with your partner - are you truly confident?