Confidence Lost / Confidence Found

“There are plenty of books written for women about confidence, but none compare to Confidence Lost, Confidence Found.  Kate McGuinness not only touches on every key element essential to developing healthy confidence but also provides the tools needed to achieve it.  Well-researched yet totally readable, this book is written with heart, candor, and…confidence.  It should be on the bookshelf of every woman who has ever questioned her self-worth – and that’s just about all of us.”

-- Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich and Nice Girls Don’t Speak Up or Stand Out

“This book is a gem. It combines soulful depth, recent science, effective suggestions, and the big heart of its author. It’s written with great integrity, and is fantastically helpful. We long for true confidence in our worth and capacity to cope and succeed, and Kate McGuinness shows us the way.”

-- Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

"This book is part autobiographical confessional and part incredibly life-affirming advice. The two dance together so that reading it is like talking to a friend. Read this, renew confidence." 

-- Richard Leider, international bestselling author, The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags

“Research indicates confidence can be a professional stumbling block for many women. Confidence Lost/ Confidence Found provides a treasure trove of strategies, techniques, and resources to help you present your most powerful and confident self.”

-- Pat Heim, author, Hardball for Women and In the Company of Women

"Crystal clear, compelling, refreshing. Kate McGuinness is a trustworthy guide through the complexities of recovering and rejoicing in our own competencies. Anchored in solid cutting-edge science and clinical expertise, McGuinness shows the reader, step-by-step, how confidence lost can be more than found; it can be claimed and celebrated as one’s own being. Terrific!”

-- Linda Graham, MFT, author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster

“Kate McGuinness has been in the trenches of corporate America. Her useful and encouraging book demonstrates how all women can gain the confidence needed in the business world without compromise. This is a guidebook to conquer that self-doubt that every woman has experienced at some point in her life—a lack of confidence. Lending her firsthand experience and sympathetic counsel forces the reader to reconcile this shaky ground and stand on solid ground with two feet firmly planted.”

-- Audrey Nelson, author of Gender Communication Handbook, Code Switching, and You Don’t Say

“This book, rooted in personal experience, addresses the issue of confidence in a comprehensive treatment. For those who aspire to leadership roles yet find themselves getting in their own way, it offers a myriad of helpful exercises to manage self-defeating thoughts and to negotiate the workplace more successfully.”

-- Carol Frohlinger, President of Negotiating Women, Inc.