Ben Fauske - Authentic Confidence: The Secret to Loving Your Work and Leading an Unstoppable Career

The SECRET to LOVING Your WORK
and LEADING an UNSTOPPABLE CAREER

BEN FAUSKE

NEW YORK

LONDONNASHVILLEMELBOURNEVANCOUVER

AUTHENTIC CONFIDENCE

The Secret to Loving Your Work and Leading an Unstoppable Career

2020 Ben Fauske RISE Leadership, LLC

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Dedicated to Kristy, Madison, Anna, Sydney, and Reese. You inspire me every day. Thanks for your constant support. I love you all.

Mom, Dad, and AJ, thanks for providing a great foundation for my faith, my life, and my work.

Thanks to all my family near and far, for teaching me the value of love and laughter.

I t took me 20 years of success and failure on the worlds largest stages to truly understand how confidence works. Its still very difficult for me to put into words. Ben Fauske does exactly that. His extensive studies and experience in this area are shared in this book and will provide a roadmap for your career. He addresses the confidence issues you didnt know you had.

To truly achieve Authentic Confidence, we must first accept the fact that we are all on a confidence journey. Ive come to realize that any success I enjoyed in athletics and business was less about my physical or genetic attributes and more about my mental process. When Ben shared his Authentic Confidence process with me, it all made sense. He explained the dangers of over and under confidence. I have seen these dangers firsthand. Finding the appropriate amount of confidence is critical for success.

This book is about teaching you how to find the confidence that people feel, without having to be told. It is the confidence that draws people in, doesnt push them away. It is the confidence that gives you the power to take responsibility for your actions. It is the confidence necessary to accomplish your dreams.

I met Ben at the Center for Exceptional Leadership at St. Norbert College. At the time, I was the director of product strategies, leading a billion-dollar category for global dairy provider, Schreiber Foods. Schreiber had been working with Ben for years adopting Authentic Confidence as a key process to develop talent. Hundreds of partners experienced the transformative coaching process provided in this book. The process works, and his mission to help leaders live and lead with confidence is obvious.

Confidence has been crucial to my progress as an athlete and leader. By the time I graduated high school, I had won nine national titles in three different styles of wrestling. At 19, I won a junior world title in Bucharest, Romania launching me onto the international scene. At 20, I became the youngest U.S. wrestler to ever make an Olympic team. Not only did I make the team; I won a bronze medal by beating a 5-time world champion from Russia.

After a second Olympics in Athens and several injuries, I was prematurely forced into retirement from wrestling at age 24. I spent the next year working through identity and confidence issues because I hadnt fully established who I was apart from wrestling. I needed to learn my strengths and weaknesses and determine what I would do next. At that point, I told myself that age 20 would not be the highlight of my career.

I decided my next adventure would be corporate leadership. I spent the next several years addressing my over and under confidence areas as my career progressed with Schreiber Foods. I have since acquired and built a multi-million-dollar portfolio of businesses. As these businesses evolve, I need to evolve as a leader. I do this by applying the Authentic Confidence process.

If you are interested in growing your influence or improving your culture, I recommend reading this book and applying the Authentic Confidence process.

Garrett Lowney
CEO and Olympic Medalist

Y ou will likely work over 75,000 hours in your lifetime. How many will you enjoy? Confidence issues are often at the core of work challenges.

In this book, I will share proven strategies based on research, biology, and real-life stories that will transform your career. I have coached thousands of clients through the Authentic Confidence process and witnessed the leadership transformations. Whether you struggle with over or under confidence, this book will equip you with the tools to build an unstoppable career.

This book teaches you the mindset and game plan recording artists have been using for decades to find significant levels of success. It will provide you with a step-by-step process to build the career you deserve.

Why do so many rock stars keep working long after they could retire? The answer is simple. They have worked through their confidence issues and they love their work. We may not want to be rock stars, but there is no denying the value of moving from obscurity to influence.

The three steps to get the most out of this book are as follows:

1. Read the book and discover the core beliefs of people who love their work.
2. Increase your influence by learning how to communicate with Authentic Confidence.
3. Share the book with your team and start the confidence journey together.

You deserve to love your work, and loving your work is fundamental to loving life. Lets find the confidence to do it, together.

Ben Fauske
Creator and Coach Authentic Confidence

W hy confidence? The topic is personal. My confidence issues used to be so bad that it led to recurring nightmares. During one nightmare, I was so terrified that I jumped out of bed and ran screaming into the other room. The problem is, before I made it to the other room, I ran face first into my dresser and it knocked me to the ground. Still half asleep, I felt blood running down my face. My wife woke me up and attempted to calm me down. I couldnt remember the details, but I knew these nightmares were not normal.

The previous day, I had gone for a walk. I had been struggling with my job for months and I was angry. I had already quit seven jobs in seven years, and I was about to quit number eight. I was fuming as I leaned into the arctic winds of Northeast Wisconsin. How could I keep ending up here? I vented to myself. I hated my work and couldnt handle my boss. I wondered if I were broken and couldnt be fixed. Maybe this was just my lot in life, to endure it.