544: The #1 Science-Backed Confidence Hack Nobody Teaches | Shadé Zahrai, PhD
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Shadé Zahrai is a leadership strategist and behavioral science expert—and the author of Big Trust—focused on helping people build real confidence and take action in uncertainty.
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| 0:29.8 | What up everybody? |
| 0:31.1 | It's episode 544 of the Genius Life. |
| 0:35.5 | Let's go. |
| 0:36.1 | Insight genius of boom. Max, welcome here. of the genius life. Let's go. |
| 0:57.7 | What's popping, everybody? I'm your host, Max Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, |
| 1:02.1 | a show where we try to get a little healthier, a little sharper, and a lot harder to mentally knock over, kind of like one of those inflatable punching bags, you know, like the punching |
| 1:06.9 | clowns, but with slightly better macros. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Shadeh Zahra. She is a leadership |
| 1:13.7 | strategist, a behavioral science nerd in the best way, and the author of the brand new book, |
| 1:19.9 | which just dropped this week, which I can't recommend highly enough, big trust. I love Shadee. |
| 1:25.5 | She's amazing. This conversation is 10 out of 10. And if you're one of those |
| 1:29.0 | people who've ever waited to feel confident before you take action, well, we're going to ruin that |
| 1:34.6 | habit for you. We get into why confidence doesn't usually precede the hard thing. You often have to do |
| 1:39.8 | the hard thing first and then your brain updates the story. We talk about the difference between feeling |
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