A short YouTube monologue by Nate Kennedy arguing that confidence and professional status should be earned through experience rather than faked. He distinguishes legitimate self-proclamation (when backed by real experience) from empty claims common in coaching and education, encourages owning demonstrated expertise without fear, and warns against falsely claiming competence.
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The next thing is you can self proclaim your status in your industry. Some people might call this fake it till you make it. And I think those are kind of two different things. I think you can self proclaim if you have the experience. And you see it often in the coaching space where people are self proclaiming with no experience, or you see it in the education space where they self proclaim with no experience. But I'm talking about self proclaiming your status. When you actually have the experience, you actually know what you're doing. So you kind of got to be cautious sometimes. And how you do this for me, I think you got to have the experience to self proclaim. But don't be fearful of owning it. I've always personally in the past been timid to come out and do some of that stuff because I know there's, you know, sometimes I feel like I don't know enough. Right. No matter how much I know. And then I have a conversation with someone that doesn't know anything about our industry, we start talking and going, and I'm helps them out a lot, helps them put that plan in place and all that good stuff. But I think it's, you got to be cautious on, on how you use that. Don't be fake about it, be real about it. But yeah, you can proclaim your status, right? Don't, don't be afra to put your, you know, stake in the sand and draw or draw that line in the sand and say, this is who I am and this is how I'm gonna help you. Right? People gotta know, and if you don't tell them, they don't always know.