Confidence Is a Skill
A few weeks ago, I had my first podcast screening.
Almost as soon as it started, I felt like I was bombing.
I stumbled over my words. I struggled to get to the point. Everything I wanted to say sounded much clearer in my head than it did coming out of my mouth.
As soon as the interview was over, I texted my media strategist:
“I need practice. I just don’t have confidence.”
On our call today, she quickly reminded me that this wasn’t entirely true.
I have confidence in many areas of my life—as a father, a grandfather, a husband, and a business owner.
I’m just not confident at being interviewed....yet.
That one word changed everything: yet.
It was a humbling reminder that confidence isn’t built in a day. It’s built through practice. Through fumbling your words, feeling uncomfortable, and showing up again anyway.
Sometimes, it’s also built by having someone remind you who you are—and why you started the journey in the first place.
I didn’t write Something Only God Could Do because I wanted to become a polished public speaker. I wrote it because I wanted to:
Help people who are struggling feel less alone.
Remind people that it’s never too late to break the chains of the past and start over.
If sharing that message means I have to stumble through a few interviews before I find my voice, then so be it.
Maybe confidence doesn’t come before we do the scary thing.
Maybe it comes because we keep doing it.