Confidence Greets You at the End | Sarah Sarkis, Licensed Psychologist

Sarah Sarkis spent years studying what goes wrong in people. Forensic psychology, the jail system, the minds of serial killers. Then she realized she had never once learned what happens when everything goes right. Today she helps leaders and executive teams understand what is happening beneath the surface. In this conversation we talk about the teachers she didn’t choose: grief, doubt, aloneness and fear. We talk about losing her mother, being a C student who called herself a reformed slacker, and why the most important work is always an inside job. “You don’t meet confidence at the start. It greets you at the end.” 00:00 Intro 00:47 The youngest of six 04:08 Growing up inside her father’s restaurants 08:08 Forensics and the minds of serial killers 10:13 Private practice and the CEOs who pulled her out 13:13 Why leaders have to do the work first 17:27 The inside job 21:20 Building tolerance for uncertainty 22:15 Grief 25:50 Doubt and becoming a reformed slacker 31:25 Fear as a teacher 33:35 The story she had to stop believing 34:50 What she would tell someone younger 36:30 Minimal viable dose Hosted by Reed Frerichs