This content was created by Travia Steward. This content was uploaded by Travia Steward. This is a YouTube video titled "Are you who you think you are?" (published 2026-08-05). The excerpt is a solo self-help/coaching monologue by a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) that reflects on how identities are formed in childhood by parents, teachers, peers and coaches, encourages honest self-inquiry about who you are versus who you want to become, and discusses shifting identity—particularly in the second half of life—to align with a core, untainted self.
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Do you find yourself saying things like, this is just who I am, this is who I've always been? But what if I told you the person that you're being is probably the person that you were actually taught to be? By the time you were 10, your parents, your teachers, your friends, your coaches have already written the script for you because they have already taught you how to behave, taught you how to show up, taught you how to receive love and give love and how to be respectful. And you may have learned to be the responsible one, the athlete, the one that your friends actually came to because maybe you could keep a secret. You've been playing that identity for most of your life, if not all of your life, unless you have been consciously saying, I don't know who I'm being. Who am I becoming right now? I know I didn't say that stuff as a kid. I didn't learn that vernacular until I started coaching. People wake up like in their 40s and 50s and go, who am I? It's a matter of getting really, really honest. If there is a gap between who you're being right now, who you are today, and who you actually want to be and who you actually are at your core that has not been tainted by expectations and judgments and criticisms, all of the things that shape and mold us. So once we're able to figure out the difference between who you are today and who you want to be that your goals require, maybe in your second half of life, that's where we start. Before we can even think about stepping into a new identity, we have to know where we're coming from so that we can know where we're going.
