Confidence Is an Inside Job: Leadership, Service, and Following the Prompt with Jeanette Deatherage

In your opinion, Jeanette, where does real confidence come from?

From inside.

And then You know, looking and feeling good really makes a difference.

And when someone turns their head and they notice you, that's going to give you a little bit more confidence.

And it's not like they have to have a lot of makeup on, but just the fact that you're standing a little taller, you're dressing a little bit different, and it just makes a difference.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think confidence is one of the most misunderstood words in leadership, honestly, right? We often believe confidence is something people are born with, that some people naturally walk into a room believing in themselves while the rest of us spend our lives trying to catch up, right? And what I've discovered is that confidence isn't the starting point.

It's the result of keeping promises to yourself, right? It's built...

Every time we choose courage over comfort.

Every time we choose integrity over approval.

And every time we choose purpose over perfection.

I like that.

Right? You spend your days helping women feel beautiful on the outside.

And I'm guessing you've learned that skincare alone doesn't create that confidence.

How often do you find yourself addressing what's happening beneath their surface?

Like every time we see someone, we're going to, that's why we take everything off first and they get to see, you know, what their skin looks like.

And they may come to me without any makeup on, but then there's still, we still have to use a cotton ball to get rid of any environmental stress that's, you know, coming onto their skin too.

Like I always say, don't you, you know, you'll wash your windshield.

You've got to do the same thing.

You've got to clean your face before you get started.

Right.

Right.

Right.

One thing I often tell leaders is that comparison steals clarity.

In your opinion, Jeanette, where does real confidence come from?

From inside.

And then You know, looking and feeling good really makes a difference.

And when someone turns their head and they notice you, that's going to give you a little bit more confidence.

And it's not like they have to have a lot of makeup on, but just the fact that you're standing a little taller, you're dressing a little bit different, and it just makes a difference.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think confidence is one of the most misunderstood words in leadership, honestly, right? We often believe confidence is something people are born with, that some people naturally walk into a room believing in themselves while the rest of us spend our lives trying to catch up, right? And what I've discovered is that confidence isn't the starting point.

It's the result of keeping promises to yourself, right? It's built...

Every time we choose courage over comfort.

Every time we choose integrity over approval.

And every time we choose purpose over perfection.

I like that.

Right? You spend your days helping women feel beautiful on the outside.

And I'm guessing you've learned that skincare alone doesn't create that confidence.

How often do you find yourself addressing what's happening beneath their surface?

Like every time we see someone, we're going to, that's why we take everything off first and they get to see, you know, what their skin looks like.

And they may come to me without any makeup on, but then there's still, we still have to use a cotton ball to get rid of any environmental stress that's, you know, coming onto their skin too.

Like I always say, don't you, you know, you'll wash your windshield.

You've got to do the same thing.

You've got to clean your face before you get started.

Right.

Right.

Right.

One thing I often tell leaders is that comparison steals clarity.