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 there, it's Trish Blackwell, your confidence coach and the host of The Confidence Podcast. You're listening to episode 465, and we are talking about being yourself when you feel disconnected from others.

Because let's face it guys, we are in a world disconnection. We are living in the most interconnected but disconnected culture that's ever existed, where you feel surrounded but utterly alone and misunderstood.

Where people are living such busy lives, it's hard to believe that people want to slow down and care about what's going on in yours.

In this episode of The Confidence Podcast, we're talking about what to do when you feel like you don't belong, and you're not happy alone but you're also not comfortable around people.

We're talking about how to connect when you feel unable to connect or connecting feels flat or insincere or unfulfilling and you're just craving deeper connection.

Even if you're not feeling alone but you know your relationships, whether they're friendships or co-worker relationships at work or you're deep romantic or family relationships, that you know they're going to have to be more depth, but the vulnerability that it takes to connect that level just makes you want to put on your hooded sweatshirt.

We're also going to be talking about managing fear about being misunderstood or hesitation and wanting to speak up or post or have a voice out of fear that good intentions might be misconstrued.

And I wanted to touch on that last point because there is so much in the world where it's a cancel culture.

So how do you live in a cancel culture but also still have a voice, also still speak your opinion, also still respect and love and give others the space for a voice but also not hide your own out of fear that you can't handle what might happen, how people would treat you.

So before we dive into the coaching, our review of the week is awesome and it is from Rick's 2719472 and they say my daily dose of positivity and encouragement.

I'm so excited to be writing this review. I listened to a lot of podcasts but this one takes the cake for me.

Okay, just pause. Listen, that just made my entire week. So thank you.

They continue not only does it provide me with positivity and encouragement but it is so relatable to my life experiences and genuinely brings me closer to God.

Trisha is so personal and connects with every path of life that you could be headed down. She encourages you to take that step back to really focus on your life and goals that you have for yourself and gives you the tools to make it where you've always imagined to be.

Thank you Trisha for your guidance and continuous support. I'm so blessed and grateful for you and this podcast.

My path has never been so clear.

Well, your path has never been so clear. What a privilege for me to have gotten to play a part in that.

I just love what God does. He takes what we how we show up and he carries it. That is so cool.

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