Every day, our team is focused on how to help our audience and community reach their full potential in every part of their lives – personal and professional. Building confidence and self-esteem is one of the most essential requirements for success and below we’ve presented some of the conversations we’ve had around how to build confidence.

Dingding Hu

Developing my confidence and self-esteem has been a challenging journey. In fast-paced production environments where every moment demands quick problem-solving and meticulous attention to detail, I learned to trust my instincts under pressure. Read More>>

Caryn Isaacs

“If you want those red shoes, you will have to ask the salesman.” My mother had always gotten me everything I wanted, but here was a dilemma. I had never even spoken to a stranger. Who should I ask? What should I say? I looked around, tears starting to sting my eyes and saw a man who was carrying a bunch of shoe boxes. Read More>>

Tyeisha C

Being a plus size dark skin girl all my life I was never really the typical standard of beauty so those facts pushed me to be more creative with my looks and life in general. Read More>>

Delaney Perry

One of my mentors told me that confidence comes from competence. And competence comes from doing something enough times to the point you get really good at it. People need courage too, but courage doesn’t come first… COMMITMENT comes first! Big time people Commit first, then they get the Courage, then they start building the Capabilities, and then they get the Confidence. Read More>>

Madison Hendrick

My confidence and self esteem comes from how passionate I am about my endeavors mixed with what I have been able to overcome. I know it sounds like a clichè but I seen myself as an underdog. Whether it’s lack or resources or people doubting me growing up, I have always used nay sayers as fuel to push forward. Read More>>

Friederike Schaefer-wildenberg

Being confident is something that has not been natural to me growing up. I have always worked very hard and made me become very good at my job. It was not until my late 30`s that I realized that what for me seems to be normal, is not normal for everyone.  Read More>>

Megan Donovan

So much of my confidence and self-esteem has grown out of challenging myself, being vulnerable, and taking risks. By leaning into discomfort and daring to do the things that feel scary and outside of my typical comfort zone, I have experienced successes and failures. Read More>>

Tailiah Breon

My confidence and esteem was developed from consistent failures. When you work at a thing and commit to it, you fail forward. Being brave enough to try and try again, has earned me the confidence and esteem to know what I am doing in my craft. The cost of confidence is failing ALOT. Read More>>

Nicole Kalil

There was an actual moment when I decided to build my own confidence—because, up until then, I was faking it like a pro. I was standing in a conference room, celebrating my promotion to Chief Development Officer at a Fortune 500 finance company (sounds fancy, right?), and amidst the applause, high-fives, and probably a terrible sheet cake, I had a gut-punch realization: Any excitement I felt was fleeting, and I was mostly terrified. Read More>>

Sara Longoria

I failed a lot… a lot a lot and in failing a lot I found my confidence and self- esteem. In failure I found out who I was and developed my iron clad belief in myself and my dreams. The world makes failure a bad thing, but it isn’t, it really isn’t failure at all. Read More>>

Omar Lockhart

Honestly, I hold this question dear to my heart. Growing up, especially as a young black man, we have this looming statistic/bias over our heads that our lives are short lived, that our dreams and goals are unachievable. Read More>>

Michaele Tocco

My confidence and self-esteem have been years in the making, shaped by both my upbringing and my experiences as a professional organizer. Growing up in a neat and orderly home, I naturally gravitated toward structure and organization. Read More>>

Brett Rosenthal

I developed my confidence and self-esteem when I was a kid mainly as a result of my parents parenting. My parents never allowed negativity or excuses and pushed me to think I could do whatever I put my mind to. Read More>>

Raluca Fallon

Confidence and self-esteem have never been a constant for me; they’ve ebbed and flowed through different stages of life. Every experience—whether uplifting or challenging—has left a lesson, shaping me into the person I am today. Read More>>

Mary Nemec

I think as women we are taught to be humble, soft and gracious with everything. I say f!*#% that! I was raised to be very confident, and that was instilled in me at a very young age. Things like nobody is you and that my thoughts mattered, that what I was thinking was valuable. Read More>>

Zaid Mahmood

Growing up, my journey to self-acceptance wasn’t easy. From a young age, I faced hatred from my own family simply for being myself. The people who were supposed to love me unconditionally instead made me feel like I was unworthy, like I had to hide who I truly was to be accepted. Read More>>

 Dr. Paulette Salisbury

Building confidence and self-esteem involves engaging in deep inner work and consistently reminding yourself of your worth. It’s a journey of reprogramming your mind through practices like meditation, breathing exercises, and positive self-talk. Read More>>

Dr. Rohini Agarwal

As my career advanced in the field of dental emergency care, developing confidence and self-esteem has been a gradual process following my industry expertise and continuous learning. Running a leading dental clinic in Dallas, I did face challenging cases and came across a diverse patient range. Read More>>

Tannya Iza

In 2017, I had joined a multilevel marketing company. I didn’t know the work that had to be done in order to be a part of a company like this. The type of self-discipline and belief that one had to have of themselves to make it. Read More>>

Jalene E. Murphy

Since this is a two-part question, I will answer them separately.

On confidence. When I stretch myself beyond my skill set, I recognize the importance of looking inside for courage and outside for reassurance. With a nudge, a push, a few gentle words of encouragement…I take the steps. Read More>>

Truce Nguyen

I developed my confidence and self-esteem by learning to trust my inner compass. I realized that my intuition is my most reliable guide, and I committed to listening to it—whether the results were positive or challenging. Read More>>

Lexi Santana

Developing my confidence has been and will continue to be a life long journey.
A huge factor that plays a roll in building my confidence is recognizing the authority over the direction of my life and the power that came with having that realization. Read More>>

Jordan Johnson

I’d like to answer this question because I feel it will help a lot of people who may be struggling with low self-esteem and insecurities which I see as a worldwide issue. Confidence is rooted in the solar plexus and anchored by the root chakra. Read More>>

Rondy Isaac

After I completed my two 200hour teacher trainings I thought I was ready to teach. I failed miserable miserably at teaching, folks were walking out of my class totally dissatisfied, so I decided I wasn’t ready to teach so I quit the studio and I started to volunteer my time. Read More>>

Tanya Kunda

I grew up the quietest in my family and I always wondered how people can just put themselves out there and not be embarrassed if they say something they didn’t mean. I grew up with a wild older sister and as time went on she would invite me to hangout with her friends. Read More>>

Joenne Dumitrascu

I believe that knowledge is power. So I’m always looking to expand my knowledge in all areas of life, but especially in music. I feel like I’ll never stop learning! Knowledge can come from many different places, not necessarily from academia. Read More>>