A short YouTube #shorts segment (spoken by Jacqueline Elliott) advising that to gain support from others you must first support and believe in yourself. The speaker emphasizes building a solid personal foundation (confidence, self-cheerleading) and uses blunt informal metaphors to show that others will not back someone who doesn't demonstrate self-belief.
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Well, first, if you don't support yourself, you're not going to get anybody to support you. That has to do with the confidence. Absolutely. You build anything in the world, it all starts with foundation work. And if it's like, if, you know, if you're building a skyscraper in New York, you got to build a solid enough foundation for it to climb. And so if you can't look at yourself in the mirror and be your own support, be your own cheerleader, be your own, you know, the. The round of applause, the pat on the back, slap on the ass. If you can't be that for yourself, you're never going to have what it is that you're looking for with a support from others, because they're going to see you and they're going to go, you don't even believe in you, right? Why should I in you? Right? That's like the crackhead coming up saying, I'm gonna get clean while he's smoking a crack pipe. It's like, dude, you're telling me you're gonna get clean, but I'm watching you relapse like you're idiot. Like, I'm not gonna be a part of your life anymore. You have to have yourself first. And once you have yourself first, there's nobody talking you out of that.