This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

Hey family, today I'm kicking off the confidence series. I've been talking about it a lot on my radio

show and it was something that I felt really inspired to do after reading an article

about confidence that kind of flipped my head a little bit about what I thought

confidence was.

And what I learned from this article was that confidence, which let's first define it.

Confidence is defined as the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something.

Confidence is defined as firm trust, but what this article pointed out, which is something

that I didn't consider, is that confidence is actually subconscious.

We don't think about confidence, it just is.

So that means that when you see people walk around and you say, oh, that person's, they are so confident.

People who are really confident, you don't even really know.

They don't necessarily have an outward appearance.

It's not a superficial display. That's faking it, actually.

And you can fake a lot of emotions. You can fake passion, excitement, and motivation.

But what you cannot fake, actually, according to a psychologist,

is confidence.

You can't fake confidence.

You either have it or you don't.

And the reason why I'm doing this series

and the reason why it's so important

is because what I also learned is that

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