Episode 13 - Decoding Confidence & Tackling Comms Burnout with Advita Patel

If you work in charity or not-for-profit communications, this episode is for you. Host Vishnee Sauntoo sits down with Advita Patel — internal comms expert, founder of CommsRebel, and author of Decoding Confidence: The Seven Habits of Confident Leaders — for an honest conversation about the burnout crisis facing our profession.

Advita shares her unconventional route from IT graduate to internal comms leader, why she launched CommsRebel just nine weeks before the pandemic hit, and how her BELIEVE framework can help you rebuild self-trust and reclaim your strategic value. If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing the work of three people, or needed permission to set a boundary, this conversation is for you.

• How Advita went from aspiring IT coder to 18 years in internal communications
• Why charity and NFP comms professionals face particular pressure — and why that’s not their fault
• The BELIEVE mnemonic: the seven habits of confident leaders (Boldness, Empathy, Learning, Integrity, Empowerment, Vulnerability, Energy)
• Why energy is the most critical habit - and the neuroscience behind why constant notifications trigger real stress responses
• The confidence erosion cycle and how to break it
• The Happiness Folder: a simple tool for sustaining self-trust
• Practical workload tools: Time Audit, Eisenhower Matrix, Pomodoro, email hygiene
• How to build a Learning Circle (personal board of directors) to filter feedback that matters from noise that doesn’t

• Decoding Confidence: The Seven Habits of Confident Leaders by Advita Patel — available on Amazon, Waterstones, Blackwell’s, WH Smith, and at decodingconfidence.com
• Confidence Scorecard — take it at decodingconfidence.com
• Eisenhower Matrix template 
• Connect with Advita at commsrebel.com or on LinkedIn

Vishnee is giving away a signed, personalised copy of Decoding Confidence. To enter, send a DM on LinkedIn or Instagram with the word CONFIDENCE.

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