Oct 12, 2026 · 48 min · 14 segments
Most men want to become more confident. But what if the way you’re pursuing confidence is actually what’s keeping you stuck? After serving thousands of men, Mitchell Osmond has noticed something…
Mitchell OsmondHost
All right, but anyways, let's get into it, okay? Um, we're gonna talk about courage, but, but more specifically, I wanna talk about the relationship between confidence and courage, because I think we get these two things completely backwards, right? M- most of us actually want confidence first, okay? We wanna feel confident.
We wanna feel confident before we start the business, before we make the call, before we have the conversation with our wife.
We want to feel confident before we walk into the gym, right? Before we raise our hand.
He says this: "Confidence is the result, not the requirement." Confidence is the result, not the requirement.
We think courage is the guy standing on the battlefield with his chest puffed out.
It's the firefighter running into the building, the entrepreneur betting everything on an idea, the father protecting his family.
Um, the underdog, you know? Um, but the reality is most, uh, courage actually doesn't feel heroic when you're actually living in it, when you're actually doing the thing.
It feels like hovering over the send button [laughs] of the email that you don't wanna send.
It feels like rehearsing the first sentence of a conversation because you have absolutely no idea what's gonna happen after you say it.
All right, but anyways, let's get into it, okay? Um, we're gonna talk about courage, but, but more specifically, I wanna talk about the relationship between confidence and courage, because I think we get these two things completely backwards, right? M- most of us actually want confidence first, okay? We wanna feel confident.
We wanna feel confident before we start the business, before we make the call, before we have the conversation with our wife.
We want to feel confident before we walk into the gym, right? Before we raise our hand.
He says this: "Confidence is the result, not the requirement." Confidence is the result, not the requirement.
We think courage is the guy standing on the battlefield with his chest puffed out.
It's the firefighter running into the building, the entrepreneur betting everything on an idea, the father protecting his family.
Um, the underdog, you know? Um, but the reality is most, uh, courage actually doesn't feel heroic when you're actually living in it, when you're actually doing the thing.
It feels like hovering over the send button [laughs] of the email that you don't wanna send.
It feels like rehearsing the first sentence of a conversation because you have absolutely no idea what's gonna happen after you say it.
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