Confidence Currency was a term I created one day when I was trying to explain to a group of women what had enabled me to go from...

...to...

I tried to find the right words to convey what it was that fueled me to keep putting one foot in front of the other, every day, as I walked out the long journey of losing over 200 lbs. What was it that gave me any shred of evidence that I could actually reach my goal when I started my journey with zero nutritional knowledge and was too ashamed to even step foot in a gym?

And then it hit me- it was...

Confidence Currency was what I had been storing in my pockets each day as I made the seemingly small, but deceivingly difficult, choices that supported my goals. And confidence currency was what I used to convince myself to take risks and attempt things that I never thought were possible (like running a 5K or not having to shop in the plus sized section of a store). 

The truth is- sometimes you need to be able to “draw” on someone else’s confidence currency until you have some of your own. I know what it feels like to feel so far from your goals that it feels like lunacy to think you’ll ever achieve them or to wonder if you’ve failed too many times to ever really make a change. But I also know what it feels like to taste freedom.

Getting to share my confidence currency with those who feel completely destitute is a true honor & an aspect of my own journey that I just never saw coming.