What if confidence is not something you wait to feel, but something you build by putting yourself out there before you feel ready?

In this episode of Follow The Pull, Wendy Kim sits down with Sheena Yap Chan, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author, TEDx and keynote speaker, and founder of the Confidence Through Visibility movement.

Sheena shares how growing up in Asian culture taught her to follow expectations, stay quiet, avoid mistakes, and second-guess her own judgment. Instead of being encouraged to trust her intuition, she learned to seek approval and wait until she felt perfectly ready.

But over time, Sheena realized that waiting for perfect confidence was delaying her life. After the passing of her aunt, she began to see how short life really is and decided she did not want to live with regret. That realization pushed her to follow the pull, leave behind the traditional

path, move to Hawaii, build her platform, write books, speak on stages, and create more visibility for Asian women.

Wendy and Sheena talk about rejection, perfectionism, representation, self-trust, human readiness, and why the people getting opportunities are not always more qualified. Sometimes, they are simply more willing to put themselves out there.

This conversation is a reminder that you do not have to feel fully ready to begin. You can say yes, learn as you go, and trust that you are capable of figuring it out.

In this episode:

● Why Sheena was not taught to trust her intuition

● How cultural expectations can create perfectionism

● Why visibility builds confidence

● What happens when you wait until you feel ready

● Why rejection should be normalized

● How representation helps others believe what is possible

● Why human readiness matters in an AI-driven world

● What self-trust really means

If you have ever talked yourself out of an opportunity because you felt unprepared, underqualified, or afraid of rejection, this episode will remind you that confidence grows when you take action.

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