On Self Confidence and Self Esteem with Ray and Laura Blakney

Episode notes

Hey everyone! Today I'm sitting down with two of my closest friends here in Playa del Carmen for a conversation that hits different. We're talking about something most entrepreneurs struggle with but rarely discuss openly: the difference between self-confidence and self-esteem. Meet Ray Blakney, a Filipino-American entrepreneur, and his wife Laura Ramirez Blakney, a Mexican-born language educator. Over the past 18 years, they've built over 20 profitable companies, sold 4 of them, and taken multiple to multi-seven-figure success, including their global language-learning platform Live Lingua. Their newest venture, Online School Builders , helps experts turn their knowledge into thriving online schools. What We Talked About: Ray shares a mentor's definition that completely shifted his perspective: self-confidence is believing you can do anything; self-esteem is believing you don't have to. When scammers destroyed his business, his high self-confidence couldn't save him from an identity crisis.

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