This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

There's a lot of similarities for me personally between getting fired and getting divorced.

Those are low moments. For me those were both very low moments where I question myself.

I question, who am I? What am I doing?

How did I get in this situation? Where did I go wrong? What's wrong with me?

And those feelings were so awful in the moment and time.

But what I've learned over 43 years is you can actually create confidence.

You can build that muscle daily. It's a choice.

And no one is born magically confident.

They might have had mentors or parents or someone in their life teaching them why and how to be confident.

But the reality is confidence isn't static. It isn't just there and for the rest of your life you're going to be confident.

You could be confident in one part of your life and not in another.

I mean there are so many great techniques and obviously confidence really is the difference between

I think success and failure in so many different situations whether it's professional or relationships or investing or getting yourself opportunities.

I think it's so hard though. If someone's listening to this and they've never been able to do this before,

how can you say they start? Because it's hard to just start I think particularly if you've gone deeper into the no confidence zone.

How do you make that leap? To say okay I'm priority number one when I just got fire, got the war, it's been broke, whatever.

You have to ask yourself that question. In some moments you have to fake it until you can make it.

But when you're asking yourself right now I'm either going to be building confidence or chipping away at it because that's reality.

And if you're scared to try something and you back out of it you're chipping away at your confidence and instead of you go in and challenge yourself to do it,

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