Confidence Genius

From Dr. Tricia:

It was early 2021, and I was playing with several book titles. This was before I knew that I wanted to make Relational Genius the name of the informational brand; I simply needed a title that somewhat captured the content. As I often due when faced with decisions that are inspired by my clients, I reached out to a few for their opinions.

Two of my clients are some of the smartest people I’ve met in my lifetime. In fact, they inspired the “Genius” part of the brand. What shocked me was that both of them were adamant that the word “confidence” be integrated into the subtitle. At a logical level, I know that many of us struggle with confidence regardless of our accomplishments. At a credentialed level, I’ve worked with people struggling with confidence throughout my lifetime. At a personal level, I’ve fought to take my place in the world and stand in it.

Yet, there was something about seeing these wildly wonderful and accomplished me in front of me saying, “I still struggle with wondering if I’m getting it right…feeling not good enough…sometimes feeling like I’ve come from the land of mismatched toys.

So I put the word “confidence” in the title.

Then this happened. The first podcast I did about the Relational Genius: The High Achiever’s Guide to Soft-Skill Confidence in Leadership and Life occurred at the time of publication. The marketers told me not to prepare so that it would be spontaneous. Hence, the interviewer chose the topics and guided the conversation. Out of the 300+ resource on a plethora of topics, she said, “I’d like to talk about confidence.”

Then she got to the crux of it with pin-point accuracy:

On one hand, I was a little frustrated that we didn’t speak about other information in the book. On the other, I was impressed with her summation of confidence and also fully aware that as a human being, this was the segment she need to hear.

The interview’s response interest in confidence mirrored what I’ve seen statistically–over and over again, it’s the subject that people struggle with, regardless of their abilities and accomplishments. Thus, if you get nothing else out of this website, I hope you know you are not alone. Some people struggle with confidence but then get upset with themselves because they perceive the struggle as ANOTHER flaw about themselves. Please don’t do this.