Over the past 20 years, I have helped thousands of women through one-on-one coaching and in my programs and courses, and I can tell you when we start working together, the number one thing they're waiting for, the thing that they think will magically happen one day.

Confidence. And I can tell you it's never coming the way that at the time they think it will. It's not something that you wake up one day and magically possess.

It doesn't arrive in your inbox with a bow on it. You're not going to open your Bible one morning

and find it tucked between Psalms and Proverbs, like a divine bookmark. And yet we treat it like it is.

We wait for it. We pray for it. We act like if we just had it, we could move forward. And we act like

until we have it, we can't possibly move forward with the thing God's been nudging us to do, right?

But here's what I've learned after nearly 20 years in business and coaching all of these women.

You don't need confidence to start. You need evidence. You need small actions and brave reps and

faithful steps that your brain can look at one day and go, oh, we've done hard things before.

We can do this again too. Because confidence isn't the requirement. It's the result. The real question isn't, do I feel ready? The real question is, can I show up anyway? So I want to talk about the real reason why so many of us stay stuck. But before we get started, I want to tell you. We're waiting to feel qualified. We're waiting to be fully

healed. We're waiting for the anxiety to disappear. We're waiting for that perfect moment where

confidence just lands on us like some sort of magic dust. And then, then we'll launch the thing.

We'll speak the truth. We'll say yes. We'll walk away, we'll step up, but that moment

it just doesn't exist. And I think deep down we know that, but we keep waiting anyway because

taking action while we're still scared feels reckless, it feels irresponsible, or it feels irresponsible,

or it feels like we're just being wise or prayerful or being strategic. Here's what we tell ourselves. I just need

one more book. I need to take one more course. I need to pray about it a little longer. I need to get

a little more clarity. I need to feel at peace in my spirit. And listen, there's nothing wrong with

preparation. But at some some point preparation becomes procrastination

dressed up in spiritual language. Here's the deal. Confidence is not what gets you started.

Courage is. Courage is what gets you started, not confidence. And most confident women don't

start that way. They start shaky. They showed up scared. They built something I like to call a track

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