You're listening to The Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the internet.

I teach go getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-down, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, your confidence coach, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. This is episode 460, and today we are talking about how to be confident in uncertainty and the unknown road ahead.

Because let's face it, isn't that life like all the time? I know for me it is. I know that my family has been in a season of unknown, and waiting, and just turmoil, and gosh, it's tough.

It's so interesting because sometimes we are so committed to being positive that we don't want to acknowledge that there are things that are tough, but the reality is that the human experience is going to have ups, and it is also going to have downs.

And when you push back the acknowledgement that things are hard, you are not allowing yourself to growth rate, you're sort of sweeping it under the rug.

I'm arguing, if I said another way, arguing with the suck, it just creates more suck. It's okay to acknowledge the experience because it actively acknowledging the experience of struggle or uncertainty is an expression of compassion to your soul.

Now, I get it, I grew up where there was a lot of complaining, and I was very, very committed to never complaining. And I do believe that complaining is a cancer of the mind, but there's a fine line between complaining and acknowledging struggle, acknowledging uncertainty is saying that, man, this is tough, a season where it's tough.

And so there's value to acknowledging your experience because then it really then energizes anything you do, because life is filled with uncertainty and tons of unknowns. So learning how to stay confident in unpredictability is key to living with unshakable confidence.

So what we're going to do today is something I've never done before. I'm going to give you a sneak peek into a chapter of my newest book, Straighten Your Crown, and share with you one of the ways, one of the stories where I've learned how to embrace the unpredictability of life with an adventurous and open and light spirit.

And really more importantly, how you can, too, my book Straighten Your Crown, which just got released, if you haven't picked up your copy, just go straight to Amazon, I'll have the link in my show notes here, just type in my name or type in the title, Straighten Your Crown.

And it's really a collection of stories, my mountain top moments and my valley pit plummets, and where there was goodness in it all.

Where God showed up and all, where in the uncertainty and when it's sometimes when it's uncertainty and in a capacity of happiness, but then also in struggle or medical fears and death's door and assault and and and and and just pain, but how whatever it is, there was good because when you start looking at the unpredictable and the unknown and realizing that our human brains don't get to know everything.

Some of the overthinking that we try to engage in some of the the trying to solve problems, the worry, it just dissipates because you're able to let go of it because you know it's wasted emotional and mental energy.

So hey, in this episode of the conference podcast, I said I'm giving you a sneak peek like I've never done before. You're going to hear one of my favorite chapters in my newest book Straighten Your Crown, rediscovering that you are seen, you matter and the king delights in you.

Here's some of my favorite thoughts that I go to when finding myself in a place of uncertainty and I'm going to share with you the affirmations that I use when I feel overwhelmed with the unknown or life when it feels out of my control.

Before we do our sneak peek and I am also going to play for you the forward by the one the only Virginia Walden Ford who was the filmmaker inspiration for the film Miss Virginia.

If you guys have seen that, it's the top, it's been top on Netflix for months now and author of school choice, a legacy to keep Miss Virginia wrote my, my, my, my forward to my book and she is a dear, dear friend of mine.

You're going to love what she said, but our review of the week is from boys and boys and rap son.

I think I messed that up. She said five stars, anointed. Gosh, this review was so deeply encouraging to me. So thank you.

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