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 here, your confidence coach, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. This is episode 477.

We're talking today about a subject that is going to help you tap into more happiness than you've ever experienced before because so many of us, we hold back on what's available to us because we are so afraid of being disliked.

We are so afraid of being unaccepted or being different. Even though we know that we want to be different, here's this pull of, I want to be different but I want to belong.

I want to be the same. When you know that you already matter, when you know that your worth is unshakable, when you know that you are a child of God and nothing can take that from you, and you know you are loved at an inherently beautiful core foundational level.

And you know it's not your performance or how skinny you are or how pretty you are or how funny you are or smart or successful.

You are that makes you valuable, but it's you being you and that you was enough and that they're going to be people in the world who don't like you and people who do.

When you come to be okay with all of that, you get this beautiful freedom, this freedom to be yourself, a freedom to be vibrant, the freedom to pursue your dreams even if someone doesn't understand your dream.

It's the freedom and the that comes from the courage to be disliked. Having the courage to be disliked gives you personal power. It gives you the freedom to be yourself.

You guys hear me say at the end of every podcast here, be you, be free and that phrase, it's so simple, those four words, but they're powerful in that they were the start, the launch pad of my own personal growth journey.

Because I had spent so many years being who I want did I thought the world wanted me to be being this buttoned up perfectionist type a kind of chameleon of a sort going and fitting in every social group and being a floater and wanting everyone to like me and a people pleaser.

And when I finally trusted that who got made me to be the Trish Blackwell that he created was enough.

I didn't need to pretend anymore and when I stopped pretending, the burden and the restraint and the restrictions and the confinement I felt, those walls dropped.

And that's for me, if you've ever wondered why be you, be free is my phrase at the end, my catch phrase as we close is because when you drop all of the pretenses and you stop pretending and you stop putting yourself in a box, worrying about what people are thinking and trying to make everyone like you, you experience this freedom.

To do new things, this freedom to be yourself a freedom to pursue the your purpose of freedom to make a difference in the world on the things that that move you there's freedom and joy that comes into it.

So this is one of those components that's going to help you tap into that.

The courage to be disliked elevates your emotional maturity and it frees you from the cycle of overthinking and from worrying what other people think.

And if you want to stop, you want to learn how to stop caring what people think and stop people pleasing or stop over thinking about your social life, this coaching episode is for you.

As always, and maybe you don't know this, maybe this is your first time listening, you could always get the show notes at my website, Trish Blackwell dot com forward slash the podcast episode number.

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