You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. You're one-stop-shot for motivation,

inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams. I'm your

host Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach and founder of the College

of Competence and I teach women how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of their shadows

of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their

purpose with confidence. It's time to train your thoughts. Let's get started.

You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. This is, oh such a needed episode. This is episode

437. And today we're talking about friends.

Y'all, I mean, how many of us have candid conversations about friends?

How many should you have?

Friendships, you guys, they matter.

They are really important, but they're also kind of up and down. It depends if you if you don't have confidence in your friendships

You can have a lot of anxiety around it. You can have a lot of uncertainty. You can be find yourself being a

chameleon in a world where you know you're you want to be yourself but to

fit in certain front groups you feel certain pressure and I want you to have the

power today to be yourself in every single group of

friends that you have to be the same person not to be a replication not to keep

being like somebody else but to be you and let's be honest

friendships matter but in a pandemic and post pandemic world that we're going to start

merging into we are more disconnected than ever.

Because it's going to be harder, there's going to be some social awkwardness,

there's some things that we've missed in the past 12, 13, 14 months that have challenged us socially and are going to cause some hesitation.

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