04: Anfernee Chansamooth – Optimizing Your Confidence with the Confidentpreneur

The Life:Optimised Show

In 2006 Anfernee left a treadmill job at an IT company, after a traumatic brain surgery experience, to pursue a life worth living. He’s lived in 3 different countries, launched a successful online marketing business that has trained over 1,000 business owners across the globe, and empowered over 200 students in Laos. He currently teaches people how to live confidently and passionately at his Release Your Inner Confidence retreats and through his online community at Confidentpreneur.com. Anfernee has appeared on Network Ten, Vibewire FastBREAK and is a blogger for Huffington Post. In this episode of The Life:Optimized Show, Anfernee and I talk about the practical and emotional challenges of transitioning from a traditional career-based lifestyle to the life of an entrepreneur. We discuss some of the things that don't usually get talked about, including the challenges and strain that come with balancing the need to appear successful with the desire to be honest and authentic even when you're struggling; we talk about the difference between confidence and ego, and how to keep a check on it; and we also talk about relationships and how confidence and entrepreneur lifestyle can impact them. All in all, I enjoyed getting super authentic with Anfernee to make sure we dived deep into the psyche of a rising star, and there were some seriously profound highlights too when we started talking about our respective experiences with death and loss of loved ones, and how that's been a motivator in doing what we do. Keep your tissues handy, just in case!