It's Not a Confidence Problem: A Free GUIDE
See why confidence was never the problem, and walk away with the first communication moves to use in your very next high-stakes room.
In five short scenarios, this free guide shows you where your value gets lost (between what you bring to the room and what the room actually hears), so you can stop guessing and start bringing the full version of who you already are into the rooms that matter. Â
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I'm a memorizer and I was always in my head. LaChina taught me to think in bullet points and to communicate on camera the way I'd talk to someone about basketball, something I already do well. That was huge for me.
Sideline reporter, 11 years in sports broadcasting
My first year covering the Women's College World Series, I questioned everything. Should I talk to this person? Is it okay to ask this? Am I allowed to be here? This year, I walked straight up to the directors, the players, the people from the networks, and I asked my questions.
Softball analyst and sports reporter
Why This Works When "Be More Confident" Never Did
You don’t shrink in those rooms because you lack confidence. You shrink because no one ever taught you the communication skill the moment actually calls for, and that skill can be learned. It starts with seeing clearly what’s really been getting in your way.
Because here’s the part no one tells you
I spent more than twenty years in live television inside sports. The highest-stakes rooms women have access to right now, the ones where visibility, value, and power are being rewritten in real time.
No one in those rooms gets to feel their way through it. No script, no second take.
You either know what you're doing when the camera goes on or you don't. That's not confidence. That's preparation, and it looks like drilling the same move until it holds up when it's loud and fast and everything is on the line.
That's exactly how communicating under pressure works. The reason the confidence advice and the books never fixed this is simple. They were working on how you feel.
This works on what you actually do: the specific moves, in the specific moments, where it’s been going wrong.
That’s what the the guide shows you.
SHOW ME WHERE MY GAP ISWhat the Guide Gives You
Here’s what you’ll have when you finish.
A name for what's actually been happening
Five scenes, five rooms you'll recognize. By the end you'll be able to point to exactly where things go sideways. Not a vague sense that something's off, but a specific, nameable moment. Most women spend years guessing at this. You'll stop guessing.
Two moves to use before your next high-stakes room
Not a mindset, not "be more assertive." A throughline you set before you walk in, and a way of delivering it so the room actually hears it. You can use both this week and feel the difference.
What Your Next Meeting Can Look Like
In the meeting
You walk in with a point worth making. You don't rehearse it first. You don't wait to see if it's safe.
When you feel the pull to soften it
You catch it. You ask yourself one question, the answer is obvious, and you say the thing you actually came to say. It lands the first time. No one restates a stronger version five minutes later.
Walking out of the meeting
Nothing to replay in the car. There’s nothing to fix, because nothing got lost. And somewhere under that is the part that actually matters: you stop suspecting the problem was you. Because it never was. You were missing one skill, and skills can be learned.
WHO’S BEHIND THIS
Hi, I’m LaChina Robinson
I've spent more than twenty years in sports broadcasting and twenty-five years in sports overall. Live television, no script, no second take. High-stakes communication has been the actual job, every day.
As a certified leadership facilitator, I've worked with hundreds of emerging professionals through NCAA programs and leadership training, led communication training for WNBA athletes, and built partnerships with Penn State, Georgia Tech, Florida, and Cal Berkeley.
Rising Media Stars, my ongoing mentorship program, has graduated 25 women in sports media since 2018.
The principles behind this guide are the same ones I've used across all of it.
You Already Know What Room Comes Next
This is where you stop guessing what's getting in the way and start seeing it clearly. Five scenes that show you exactly where things have been going sideways, and two communication moves to use before you walk into your very next high-stakes room.
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