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“It’s kind of like Whac-A-Mole (the arcade game). You rarely get a day when everything is going perfect. So it does cause quite a bit of self doubt.” Buchanan surrounds herself with people who have confidence, who
mesh well.
“And I do think that the more senior you get, you have to internalise
a lot of that doubt, because people don’t want to look up and see someone in a panic,” she says.
“You need the people that you can confide in ... the people that you can call upon that give you that moment of clarity or just a quiet corner some- times to go sit in and rock in.
“For many women, it’s accentuated in terms of the self doubt holding them back and preventing them from maybe taking that leap.
“I had a lovely client who, at one point in my career, I was talking to about what my next move would be.
“He said: ‘Ames, you’re crazy. You are so ready to do that.’ His com- ment was that a lot of women need to be 70% to 80% ready to make the move. Whereas in his eyes, for men it was perhaps 50% ready. ‘Have a bit of faith and back yourself,’ he said.
“It was a good insight. I had been thinking: I haven’t got that skill and haven’t got that skill. And he’s telling me I’ve got them all and, yes, I have some growth ahead.
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