Ep. 26: Is Self Love Really The Answer? Finding Lasting Confidence in Your Looks, Work, and Relationships
But What's Next? with Michelle Reed
Michelle Reed
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michelle shares about her personal confidence journey and why self-love seems to fail her. While culture tells us loving ourselves more will lead to greater confidence, Michelle questions if this is true. Through her work, relationships, appearance, and intellect, Michelle shares how she finds self-confidence throughout her day-to-day life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of but what's next with me |
| 0:15.0 | Michelle Reed. I am recording a podcast that I am just really excited to share with you |
| 0:22.0 | guys one that I've done a lot of prep for it |
| 0:24.6 | like it's been a while since I did one that I actually like sat down and just |
| 0:28.1 | really prepped and didn't throw up which I love kind of like I don't really want to |
| 0:31.7 | call them the throw-up |
| 0:32.5 | episodes but the episodes that are just really chill and not very structured I really |
| 0:37.8 | love those but this is one that I think was really important for me just to research and really kind of have a sense of why I feel the way I do about this. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm talking about confidence today and self-confidence and how I've learned to be a more confident person in my life and kind of get over my insecurities |
| 0:56.7 | But at least for me I've kind of heard the same narrative |
| 1:00.8 | whenever people talk about this topic and I used to buy into this narrative and just found myself feeling very unfulfilled, finding myself even less confident, finding myself feeling even more insecure and |
| 1:15.7 | recently I've just randomly been listening to podcasts and reading books on this |
| 1:21.5 | topic not on purpose but it's kind of just made its way into my life and I was sitting today thinking about it and I was just like I really want to share my heart behind this |
| 1:35.0 | I think especially as young women we're kind of fed this message that you need to love yourself fully you need to fully embrace yourself |
| 1:40.0 | you are the one in control of your own happiness and there's so much of an emphasis on self, |
| 1:46.0 | so much of an emphasis on fulfilling your own desires and you know that's the way that you're going to be |
| 1:51.2 | confident. And I can just say that I have tried to do that in the way that you're going to be confident. |
| 1:52.6 | And I can just say that I have tried to do that in the past. |
| 1:55.3 | I have focused a lot on myself. |
| 1:57.7 | And I have only felt, like I said, more insecure, |
| 2:02.4 | more lacking even more confidence |
| 2:05.9 | finding myself feeling more bitter towards other people by kind of living this way and just realizing how feeble-minded I am and how happiness isn't |
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