From South Side to White House - Building Unbreakable Self-Belief | Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson reveal how their parents' revolutionary "coaching confidence" approach built their unshakeable self-belief, empowering their journey from Chicago's South Side to Princeton and beyond despite society's lowered expectations.

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0:00.0	I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you're looking to create more financial freedom
0:06.8	in your life, you want abundance in your life and you want to stop making money hard in your life,
0:12.4	but you want to make it easier. You want to make it flow. You want to feel abundant.
0:16.3	Then make sure to go to make money easybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is going
0:24.8	to help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward. We have some big
0:30.8	guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of the
0:36.9	Daily Motivation Show.
0:38.6	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:50.4	How did you build belief in yourself that you were worthy of the success at such a high level?
0:57.0	You as a coach and in the business world and the NBA and even going from a small little apartment with both of you to being in the most iconic house in the world.
1:08.0	Like how do you believe you're deserving and worthy of that life when you come
1:15.2	from such smaller, humbler beginnings? Well, it's a step-by-step process. And if you got good, smart
1:24.1	parents like we did, you know, who don't even know what's coming, but they understand,
1:29.6	they understood for us that they wanted to make us feel that way at our little kitchen table.
1:36.4	So you, you begin feeling that because you feel it, you see your excellence in the eyes of your
1:43.4	parents.
1:44.2	Like, we have parents that really thought we were smart and funny and interesting.
1:50.7	And they reflected that back to us.
1:54.3	They wanted to hear what we thought.
1:56.8	So we grew up thinking, we're so funny.
1:59.8	You're so smart. You funny, we're so smart.
2:03.4	You know, we're so interesting.
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