#01: Why I Choose Courage Over Confidence

30/09/2024 11 min
#01: Why I Choose Courage Over Confidence

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Episode Synopsis


Theres a reason I called this podcast She is Courageous rather than using the word confidence and thats exactly what I'm talking about in this, the first episode.
Here I share with you why I think Courage is the foundation of confidence and why I also think we all need to let go of the heavy label of confidence. I share my simple tips to choosing courage over confidence so that you can do exactly that because when we get courageous we move forward and that builds huge amounts of confidence!
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TRANSCRIPT
Well, hello and welcome to the first episode of the She Is Courageous Podcast. So I thought we would kick off the series with a bit of context on the whole She Is Courageous Title and the name of my online community. Now look, courage in my view, that I've learned over the last few years actually is one of the most critical skills and strengths for success in life and business.
And I genuinely learned this over the last couple of years as a business owner. Because most people, myself included, up until a few years ago, think they need to build their confidence and everything will be okay. I have people come to me all the time. I have people that say, I want to be as confident as you.
I want to build my confidence. I need more confidence. And I'm not saying confidence isn't a great thing to have, it absolutely is, but I think we've got the focus all wrong. Now if you're listening to this now, and you're already wanting to scream at me, it's probably not a good start, is it? But, if you're literally like, but I do Shelley, I need more confidence.
I am not confident, I need to be more confident. If I were more confident, I would. I want to let you know you can absolutely build your confidence. I'm not saying we don't need confidence in life and business. It absolutely helps to have more confidence. But I'm going to start out with a real quick reminder, and you're going to hear me say this so many times.
In all that pressure you're putting on yourself to be more confident, no one is 100 percent confident 100 percent of the time. And that's why today, what I want to start this whole podcast series off in the spirit of everything I stand for, and this stands for, I want to talk about why courage is actually more important than confidence.
Because it's courage that we need to take action. Even though. We have some fear, even though there is uncertainty, even though we don't feel completely confident. Courage is what we need to face challenges head on, if you like, because they're going to come. We have to have courage to face into things when we don't know if we'll get the result we want, when we have no idea how something's going to play out.
Confidence. Confidence is belief in our ability. Confidence comes from a feeling of knowing that we've got this, which in truth is only built through experience. And for most of us, dare I say it, through success, or at least survival through the challenges, and I'm going to go inverted commas,...

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