Christine Borg
Would You Bet Everything on Yourself?
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Taken into an orphanage as a baby, she spent decades believing she was a victim — on the one belief she changed, and nothing else.
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Christine Borg opens with a photograph of herself in her mother's arms, taken shortly before her mother's hospitalisation and her own placement in an orphanage. She traces what that environment installed: a conviction that she was a victim. It followed her through leaving at eleven, surviving alone at sixteen, and dancing at events for money, into a corporate career and the coaching business she runs today. The talk's claim is that her circumstances did not change. Her belief did.
- 01She names the belief the orphanage installed — that she was a victim — as the thing that outlasted the orphanage itself by decades.
- 02The turning point was a sentence in a book rather than an opportunity. Reading that she was the creator of her life first made her angry.
- 03Nothing external arrived to rescue her — no offer, no benefactor, no opening. Only the belief moved, and the rest followed from that.
- 04Meeting the mentor she had followed for years is offered as evidence of the method rather than coincidence: she held the intention first.
My life technically remained the same. But what changed? My belief.
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