On today's episode, I talk once again with Byron Gifford. We discuss how to overcome self doubt and dealing with self doubt.

This is a common feeling among new writers, and we have thoughts and ideas to help those that doubt they should be writing.

Transcript

Stephen 0:48All right. Well, Byron, welcome back to the podcast. We had your interview last week on the episode. So how are things going today? things are going really good. Hey, we're Chuck. We're chuckling at that, because we took two minutes in between both podcasts. little secrets we're giving out to everybody? Absolutely. So what we wanted to do with this half is more of a casual conversation, a topic for us to discuss. And you chose the topic of self doubt and overcoming self doubt, and maybe even what has caused self doubt for you. So let's start. Why did you choose this as our topic discussion?

Byron 1:36I chose this because it was the one thing that could have, it prevented me from doing this much earlier in life. And it easily could have been the thing that stopped me several times, was the self doubt. So I think it's so important, because I can't imagine that I'm the only one out there that experiences this.

Stephen 2:01No.

Byron 2:02Where Where does it stem from? I don't know, I think that's different for everyone. It could have been, you know, my early childhood, lack of confidence, you know, I was raised by a single mother of three. So imagine, you know, 50% or less parents structure always around with interactions being thin. Nothing, I regret, but certainly, you know, confidence may have been lower. So it always kind of used that self doubt was an excuse. But how do I overcome it? And that's really what I needed to discover, to kind of find, what would it take to get to give me that breakthrough, so that I could move forward and look back on this and say, I conquered it.

Stephen 2:52Which I think most people strive and struggle for most of their lives. Let me back up a second, ask you this. So when you were younger, you said you got a brother word processor, you typed all sorts of things. And you didn't. I mean, looking back now you realize, oh, man, those weren't really great. But at the time, you thought they were super wonderful. And you how many how many? Do you think you wrote back then when you're younger?

Byron 3:19Oh, wow, probably, I don't know, dozens, dozens of different stories. And I would pull like Spider Man and my own little, you know, one, two page stories, and I had a wonderful time doing it. But what it could have been is that those stories, they started with me, but then ended with me. It's not as if I tear it off the the brother word processor machine handed to a parent and immediately gets a get a read and get some feedback and encouragement. Again, you know, lack of time with with your parents. That could be is that I didn't have that kind of urging me along. And so I do take that forward in life to my two children today is where I where I can give them praise. Or we can sit down and talk about the experiences. I'm hoping that that is keeping them, you know, confidence levels high and helping them build self confidence in themselves that one day, they won't have to rely on someone else to fill that confidence cup up. They'll be able to help keep it for themselves as well.

Stephen 4:30Right. And I was gonna mention that. Let me ask you this. And this is maybe my personal thoughts bias or whatever. I'll get to my point, but I have a question for you. So I assume your parents, like a lot of parents would tell you Oh, this is great. This is wonderful no matter what you did. And then you hit the adult world in real life and you did something for work or you did s...