From Persona to Power: How Serena Kerrigan Learned to Be Fully Herself

So your brand, the through line is confidence.

Creating confidence, being confident.

What would you say to someone who's just... trying to figure out how to do that outside of they're going to read your book, they're going to get your cards.

Of course, we want to use too much self promotion.

Oh, we're good.

This is all about self promotion.

Let's let's revel in it.

I think that this idea of confidence that was presented to me was that you have to love yourself and like yourself all the time and be obsessed with your body and And I just don't think that that's realistic.

I actually think confidence is just treating yourself like your best friend.

Because you love your best friend, but sometimes she annoys you.

Sometimes you don't like what she's wearing.

Sometimes you're like, oh, I need space.

But at the core of it, you're always going to bat for her.

And if she was going through a hard time, you would know exactly what to say to her.

And I find that we're so self-critical.

And that's where our insecurity...

Not saying that we make ourselves insecure, but more like...

In the moments of feeling insecure, we actually know exactly how to lift ourselves out of it because we do it with everyone else that we love.

So how can we bring

that back to ourselves? I love that you say that and you touch on that in the book.

And it's kind of like when you say you're like, duh, why aren't I talking to myself like I would give my friend that boost? Like you wouldn't be like, you're right.

You do suck.

And you are ugly, friend.

It's crazy because I

think that maybe because if we do that and we hype ourselves up, we're seen as arrogant.