111. How To Claim Your Confidence with Auctioneer & Best Selling Author Lydia Fenet

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In this episode, Host Paola Soares speaks with bestselling author and highest grossing charity auctioneer Lydia Fenet.

Lydia Fenet is the founder and CEO of the Lydia Fenet Agency, a boutique agency representing best in class charity auctioneers. Over her two-decade long career, Lydia served as the Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Christie’s and reshaped the fundraising landscape as the world’s leading charity auctioneer. She has single handedly raised over one billion dollars for more than 800 organizations and broken-down countless barriers for women in the auction industry. Widely recognized for her poise and power onstage, she has stood alongside celebrities including Hugh Jackman, Elton John, Matt Damon and Jerry Seinfeld to raise record-breaking donations for the most notable charities across the globe.

Lydia is the author of two best-selling books, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You & Claim Your Confidence as well as the podcast host of Claim Your Confidence in collaboration with Rockefeller Center. Her first book was optioned by Netflix in 2022 for a series starring Kiernan Shipka as the lead….

She also travels internationally to speak to companies about unlocking their sales potential, empowering people in the workplace and the art of public speaking…

In this interview she shares how to sell authentically, the importance of never apologizing and why to start negotiating instead, how to claim your confidence, and how to slam imposter syndrome… this and so much more…

Connect with Lydia:

Instagram: @lydiafenet

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