Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets.

I am your host and today on the show, I have some news to share with you.

We're going to do something a little bit meta today because I'm going to teach you a little class here on the development of confidence and

courage and capabilities while simultaneously sharing some of what I am doing.

Specifically, what I am doing right at this moment is recording the podcast live in front of a live audience online,

which is something I've been doing a little bit here and there, but it's something that is really difficult for me

it's something that's really challenging for me because it stretches me to an area

that I want to go but an area that I'm just not 100% confident in it.

Something that is difficult for me to do.

And so I'm going to share with you what I'm doing and how I'm doing it

in hopes that it will help you with the things that are difficult to you

while also throughout this whole meta narrative sharing with you some ideas and inviting you to

become a part of these live streams.

Today I want to talk about the development of confidence

because in the times that we're facing right now,

you need it.

All right, I need it. And yet it seems to be increasingly in short supply.

I know for me I feel that lack of confidence. I feel you look around at the world, you look and see how difficult things are right now, and you ask yourself, am I capable of this? Am I able to actually do this? Am I sufficient for this? You wonder, am I actually going to be able to get

through this the way that I would like to? And yet if you labor and focus on where you're

not confident, the answer is probably going to be something like no

you're not actually going to be able to get through it the way that you would want to

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