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Jo Emerson is a leading confidence coach and human behavior expert, plugging people back into their authentic selves so they can reach their full potential at home and at work. \nShe\u2019s also the author of Flying for Beginners (a Proven System for Lasting Self Confidence) and the popular online course, 5 Steps to Lasting Confidence. \nHer most important job, however, is being mum to her three daughters Beth, Eva and Nancy. You can find her at www.jo-emerson.com\nGuiding Principle, Quote or Mantra\nAre the thoughts you are believing rooted in fear or rooted in love?\nTypically if you are feeling \u201coff\u201d your thoughts are rooted in abject fear.\nAsk \u201cwhat would love or wisdom say to me?\xa0 This will immediately help you calm down so you can get on and do the next right thing and the next right thing after that.\nWhat are you listening to?\xa0 Fear or love.\xa0 Fear or wisdom.\xa0 Fear or truth.\nThis will bring you back into the \u201cnow\u201d where you can step into gratitude.\nHow does confidence relate to shyness?\nAll of us are quite naturally shy in some situation or another.\xa0 So you can be confident in most every situation, except for one or a few.\nEven the most confident people can have moments of being really shy.\nIf you can be shy and have the confidence to own your shyness can be quite attractive.\nConfidence is a deeper thing.\xa0 Shyness is often momentary.\nWhen You Tripped Up \nJo got divorced 5 years ago and going through the pain of ending that relationship taught her a lot about partnership.\nThe agony of separating from something she thought would be forever was huge.\xa0 However, in terms of partnership, perhaps being apart has made them better partners.\nProudest moment in partnership\xa0\nWhen Jo\u2019s was pregnant with her second daughter, Eva, she was sick the entire time.\xa0 So she was kind of looking forward to giving birth to her so the sickness would be over.\nAnd unlike the birth of her first daughter, when she was terrified, Jo decided she was not going to be afraid this time. \nShe asked her midwife how to get over the pain.\xa0 And the midwife told her \u201cYou use the pain, to push.\u201d\nWhen the next contraction came, Jo dug underneath the pain and found some strength.\xa0 The pain lifted and she was able to push.\xa0 And just 40 minutes later her daughter was born.\nThis midwife got onboard with Jo\u2019s determination and gave her the courage and the self belief that she could have a different experience.\xa0 And she did.\nCurrent Partnership that Has You Excited\nThe title for Jo\u2019s first book \u201cFlying for Beginners\u201d came to her while she was washing up in the kitchen on day.\xa0 Almost like an angel dropped it into her head.\nTwo years later the book poured out of her in just 4 months. \nAll the publishers liked the book but they wanted it to be four times longer because 80,000 word books apparently sell well and 20,000 word books not so well.\nJo knew the book did not need to be longer.\xa0 And she decided to self publish it with the assistance of her marketing gal, Becca, they self published.\nJo is not technical, and Becca jumped in and learned how to self-publish and code a website and everything that was needed to make it happen technically.\nWithout her partnership with Becca this book would never have happened.\nWhat is the best partnership / relationship advice you have ever received?\nBe yourself!\nSo often when we are seeking relationship or love or wanting to attract someone, it is so tempting to become who we think people want us to be.\xa0 And it just doesn\u2019t work.\nIf you are the one doing the pretending, you end up feeling compromised.\nIt is always worth it to wait for someone who thinks this person who laughs really loudly and doesn\u2019t stop talking is perfect for me.\xa0 Instead of shaving off parts of yourself in order to fit some mold and feeling miserable.