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-doubt, 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 this is The Confidence Podcast. You are listening to episode number 461 today we're talking about how to make people like you more.

And look, it is legitimately something there are things you can do to be more likeable. I say this, not because we're not because we need to care what people think and if they like us, but because we are human.

Y'all, we are wired for people, we're wired for connection, and your confidence when you know that you belong, when you belong by being yourself, not a water down replication of someone else or imitation of someone else or by pretending and perfectionism that you are have it all together, but the real you is where you will find your confidence comes alive.

Because I want you to know this wanting people to like you is part of being human, but sometimes a misplaced desire or ineffective ability to connect with others creates inner insecurity.

This episode we're going to get coached on three basics of how to make people like you more starting with first learning how to like yourself.

Because when you master your focus on these three basics, you'll be more equal to stop caring what people think and to have more social confidence when meeting new people and wanting them to like you.

As always, you can get the full show notes at Trish Blackwell dot com for slash or six one.

It's okay to have a desire to be more like so let's just go about it in a confident, courageous, authentic and powerful way.

So in this episode of confidence podcast, we're talking about how to make people like you more the secret to not caring what people think and how having confidence to when you meet new people will track them to you and how to work that and get into social groups.

Even if it's a group of people who all know each other and you're the outsider, these tips will help you feel like you belong and feel more confident.

Before we do that, I want to do a review of the week Kelsey, sis and I'm going to tell you girl, you made my day when I read this review.

She called it the most helpful brain training podcast on the internet.

This podcast came at the perfect time for me personally.

I cannot recommend it enough and continue to tell all of my friends and counselor how to give that plug because I know you read these and they all and you are very pro therapy.

Thanks, Trish, on your biggest cheerleader right now.

Having grown up in the church and worked in ministry for several several years alongside my husband before pursuing alternative careers, I'm realizing how ill-equipped and uninformed I was and what it meant to be to take my thought captive.

That verse always just felt like a nice suggestion, certainly not something that was ever possible.

Trish takes this verse and concept and through her podcast equips us with the tools and practices necessary to truly take our thoughts captive.

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