Quiet Confidence: Leading Without the Applause
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
If your confidence is determined by validation, your performance will be, too. In this episode of the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, John is sharing 4 keys to shifting from reliance on recognition to resilient self-assurance!
After John's lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson discuss his insights to help you apply them directly for your life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Value the process over the event.
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Don't take yourself too seriously.
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Never wait for someone else to raise the bar for you.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Quiet Confidence: Leading Without the Applause Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/QuietConfidence and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast, our podcast is committed to you. |
| 0:12.8 | We want to add value to you today in this episode and then give you an expectation. |
| 0:17.9 | And that expectation is you will take it and multiply value to others. |
| 0:37.7 | Chris, I'm so glad you're in the studio today, alive and in person, man. I love you coming up here. I know. I know. I love it. Hey, you were telling me right before we got, oh, you had this incredible moment with your son yesterday. And so tell me a little bit of what David did yesterday. Yeah, so David, you know, for those that are inside the Maxwell community, they get a chance to see David come alongside me at the |
| 0:41.9 | IMCs. And, you know, he always wants to be behind the scenes and just kind of, he's the one that |
| 0:46.4 | sticks to me. I got six. But this one, he just like, he always wants to be with me. Well, he got |
| 0:51.9 | the opportunity to speak for about 150 people yesterday, |
| 0:55.9 | which was awesome. You know, so we recently switched schools for him. And so he was going to a charter |
| 1:03.0 | school. And then now we've got him in a specialized school for baseball and virtual school. So it's |
| 1:09.2 | kind of this hybrid. And so he got a chance to actually go and |
| 1:12.6 | speak about making that choice because there's a big deal inside of Florida of school choice. |
| 1:18.2 | And so he was a great representation of how school choice works and us being able to |
| 1:23.6 | choose the education platform that works for him. |
| 1:32.7 | And so he got a chance to share his story yesterday for about 100, 150 people, which was really neat to see. |
| 1:33.9 | Hey, Proud Papa today. Yeah, come on, absolutely. |
| 1:35.0 | So for all of you viewing the podcast, and you can get that link to YouTube at Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash quite confidence. Chris is levitating today. |
| 1:46.9 | So the proud papa in him is levitating. You know, today we're going to talk on the podcast. |
| 1:52.4 | You're going to hear John talk about quiet confidence, how you can lead without the applause. |
| 1:58.8 | And as I was thinking about you and David, the reason I want you to share that story is |
| 2:02.9 | John, really, if he's helped me with anything in my leadership, helping me to lead with confidence |
| 2:08.6 | without applause is one of the biggest lessons that he has mentored me on since I've been close |
| 2:14.7 | to him, since I've been traveling the globe with him. And so I'm super |
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