#68 - Science of Self-Respect: How Moral Integrity and Value-Aligned Behavior Wire Your Brain For Confidence
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What good is control, discipline, or belief—if you don’t respect the person you’re becoming?
In the final episode of this 4-part series on personal development, Cody McBroom breaks down the science of self-respect—what it really means, why it matters more than people realize, and how to build it from the inside out.
Backed by research and real-world strategies, you’ll learn:
- Why self-respect is the foundation of long-term success
- The difference between self-esteem, self-worth, and self-respect
- How moral integrity and value-aligned behavior wire your brain for confidence
- What global studies show about self-respect’s role in reducing depression and building assertiveness
- How honoring your values—especially when no one’s watching—creates unshakable character
Cody shares three major studies on how self-respect improves mental health and resilience, along with practical strategies you can use today to strengthen yours. From setting boundaries to journaling your moral wins, this episode provides a clear framework for building lasting integrity and inner trust.
This isn’t just about feeling good—it’s about becoming the kind of person who can’t be shaken.
Whether you're a high-performer, parent, coach, or entrepreneur—this is how you cement everything you've worked for.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, I'm going to teach you all about self-respect and specifically how to earn |
| 0:05.1 | self-respect in your life. And this wraps up our four-part series on self-formation, where we |
| 0:10.8 | covered self-control, which really starts the journey, self-discipline, which builds the path, |
| 0:16.4 | self-belief, which powers your momentum. And now finally, self-respect, which is the foundation that you |
| 0:22.7 | live on. So listen in, learn how to gain the ultimate level of self-respect in your life and |
| 0:27.9 | consistently maintain integrity day to day. So listen in to learn how to level up your |
| 0:32.7 | inner respect and maintain integrity with your core values every single day. |
| 0:39.3 | The greatest things in life all start with a challenge. |
| 0:43.4 | You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy. |
| 0:47.2 | Everything you want in life begins with a hard path. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm your host, Cody McBroom. |
| 0:55.0 | I am a father, husband, entrepreneur, coach, and a man on a mission to help |
| 0:59.8 | individuals live their best life possible. |
| 1:03.4 | Step one in living your best life possible is choosing hard every single day. |
| 1:07.8 | And that's what this podcast is here to help you do. |
| 1:09.7 | So let's build your body and |
| 1:11.7 | develop your mind. Today we are going to be diving in to self-respect. This is actually probably |
| 1:17.3 | I feel like I need to stop saying this is my favorite topic to talk about, but it really like |
| 1:21.9 | the self-formation process in general is. And this is part four. So if you haven't listened to the first |
| 1:26.6 | three parts of this series, make sure that you go into Spotify, Apple, wherever else you listen to it. If you listen to it to, there's so many podcast platforms. We're on Amazon. We're on like, we're on ones I've never even heard of. I think there's one called like Jukebox. I Heart Radio. |
| 1:44.4 | I've heard of that. |
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