Michael Ashford

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Speaking With Confidence · How Asking Questions Builds True Communication Confidence · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Um the first time I ever expressed my political beliefs, I I believe I was probably 13 or 14 years old.

Now

Did that political belief that I spouted at that time, was it the work of my own deep research and consideration and asking myself the questions of like, well, what do I believe?

And and how do I think politically we should show up?

And you know what resonates most with no, it wasn't.

It was literally an amalgamation and mashup of my grandparents and my parents and my pastors.

And and you know, my friends and perhaps some teachers.

Like it was all the influence of my life that I was simply

Regurgitating.

Now, as a forty almost two year old man, was some of it correct?

Do I still believe in some of that?

Yes.

But when I got into my twenties and I again started asking myself those questions of well, what do I actually believe?

I changed.

I like because it wasn't mine.

Those those those beliefs that I had had claimed for so many years, they weren't mine.

And as it relates to confidence, when you know deep down, and I believe we all do, when we know deep down that what we're saying or what we're standing for isn't actually ours.

How in the world are we supposed to be confident in that?

It's fake confidence.

There's no possible way that we can we can delude ourselves from believing that it's anything but because we know we didn't do the work to create that belief on our own.

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