Main Topic: The Confidence Paradox with guest Angus Nelson

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Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates):

• (Valerie): writing, gardening, homework from the business coach
• Angus: daughter just moved to Portugal a block away

• (Erick) Writing new novella. Great client meetings. Preorder up for Shadow Signals (cover from Miblart)

What are you reading?

• Valerie: Shadow Signals (Erick Mertz) The Stars and Their Light (Olivia Hawker)
• (Not ready to give up on them, but struggling to finish them:) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; The Year of the Puppy (Alexandra Horowitz) ; The Teller of Small Fortunes Julie Leong
• Erick:
• Houses of the Unholy (gn) Tender is the Flesh (horror) (Agustina Bazterrica)
• (Angus:) The Art of Possibility (Rosemund Zander and Benjamin Zander)

• Segment 2 (Resources/Tips/Tidbits):

• Tidbit #1: automated email sequences
• Tidbit #2: Notes App (writing)
• Angus's tips: use AI to write; helped me see perspectives I couldn't see. Prompt it to be a bestselling NY Times editor. What would you say about this passage? (Jeff Goins was his book coach.)

Segment 3 (Main Topic):