Julianne Hough

Why?

How?

I think there can be multiple reasons, but self-doubt is a really fascinating thing.

It really comes down to what voices you allowed to determine your identity.

All of us have a series of voices that speak to us from childhood all the way through life.

But those voices do not matter until you accept them as your voice.

So if someone says to you, you don't matter, but your voice tells you you do matter, that voice doesn't have power over you.

But when you let that voice shape who you are, and I think for me, Ed, I had voices inside of me saying, don't be too successful.

I literally was always my greatest enemy.

This voice, because I'm a deeply spiritual person.

Yes.

And I have this...

I mean, my life is centered around the person of Jesus Christ, and I've never wanted to do anything to invalidate my relationship with him or to cause anyone to ever question my sincerity.

So what that did for me is it actually created some self-limiting mindsets.

because I didn't know how to become the full version of myself and not have people question my faith.

And when I had to realize eventually, I think this is one of the things I learned from you and so many others is the better you're at something, the more people are going to hate you.

There is no way to escape opposition or hate or whatever you want to describe it.

And once I could accept that going, even if I'm completely sincere, there's always going to be people who question your sincerity.

And so then I went, well, if I'm going to have people who hate me anyway, I might as well be the best version of myself.

I might as well move toward optimal performance.