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THE GUIDE: The Trust Protocol

For when confidence isn’t cutting it. Trust is the only way forward.

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Christy Hardin
Jul 25, 2025
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This guide was created for those who resonated with the essay “Confidence Is a Lie. Build This Instead.”

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In that piece, I explored why confidence never felt like the right pursuit—at least not for me.
We often externalize confidence without realizing it:

If I look the part, maybe I’ll feel it.
If others believe in me, maybe I can believe in myself.

But in doing so, we give our power away.

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