The Truth About Confidence No One Talks About

Confidence doesn’t create the extraordinary.

Creating the extraordinary cultivates confidence.

It wasn’t confidence that got me on the TEDx stage.

It wasn’t confidence that allowed me to publish my first book.

It wasn’t confidence that created my speaking business and my life (which I love).

It was self-trust.

Let me rewind.

Delivering a TEDx, publishing a book, and speaking for a living were dreams of mine, and for a long time, that’s all they were, dreams.

They weren’t available to me because they were on the other side of my deepest fear:

Being seen and heard as my creative, authentic self.

The idea of putting myself out there in pure, raw, naked vulnerability was like standing on the edge of a cliff perched above an abyss with no bottom.

Leaping meant diving headlong into my deepest fears.

I would be:

• Judged
• Ridiculed
• I’d fail miserably.
• And, the most terrifying, my authentic self would be rejected.