Leadership, Confidence, and Self-Reflection:

How we build confidemce:

Confidence is a gift you give yourself. Only you can give it.

It has a positive pathway: SUCCESS.

It has a negative pathway: FAILURE.

But both pathways build on Character, Community. and Curiosity — and it starts here.

Character is how you see the world through confidence, empathy, and determination. From this photo you can’t tell if this was a success or success borne of failure.

That is the point. a good leader encourages, emoathizes and celebrates both the successes, the failures, and the best efforts.

A good leader is taught to be of the team and for the team. Not everyone c an do this, character is a curated activity and some people can’t lead. But when you are confident that you can, this is where you start.

The gentleman in the middle is my 2025 intern, Marcus. He is celebrating and being celebrated by a group of middle school kids.

Why? Because Marcus showed up on this day and had 15 minutes tounderstand quantum effects in nature and then describe it WITH VISUALS how that works.

How did he do this? He built a community that wanted to support him and believed in him and in return THEY believed in themselves.