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.

Welcome to the 500 episode to The Confidence Podcast with my mommy Trish Blackwell.

Well, what an announcement and welcome, guys. This is your host Trish Blackwell. You have been welcomed officially to the 500th episode.

It is a celebration, and I'm here with my seven-year-old Ellie. Ellie, say hello. Hello.

And my four-year-old bakey bake baker. Say hi, baker. Say hi.

Okay, so we're just going to start today with a little fun question. We're talking about purpose today, and I want you to know your thoughts about purpose are always going to change, and you just start with what's on your heart. So, Ellie, what's on your heart? What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a dancer.

A dancer? I love it. That's going to be beautiful baker. What do you want to be when you grow up?

A wrestler.

Well, we're going to have a household of dancers and wrestlers. And on that note, let's talk about you and your purpose. I cannot believe I'm recording the 500th episode.

I would have never known that podcasts were part of my purpose. You might have heard some of this story of this about how I got into podcasting, but it's only because a friend said, Trish, I just something tells me you should do this.

And full transparency, you guys. I mean, this was 10 years ago. Like not to be exact. This podcast has been going for 9.61 years.

However, for those of you who are who are OGs to the show, you know that I had an original show called from the inside out. Those episodes are still available on my website. If you go to Trish Blackwell.

Come forward slash podcast, you'll find everything there. So let's let's call let's just call it 10 years. I didn't even listen to a podcast before I did my first one.

That's right. This was 10 years ago when podcasts were not popular. It was this sort of like thing that some people didn't. I barely knew how to listen to a podcast before I started recording my first.

So I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe what God has used for me to be part such an important part of my journey. And that's just I share that so that you know, especially because of the topic that we're talking about today.

How to know your purpose. How to know that you are enough for your purpose. I mean, why do we crave this desire to know am I enough?

Well, I think it stems from a deep desire to know that what we do in this world are reason for existing that there is that it matters.

And that there's a purpose to the when we show up. There's a purpose to our growth. There's something that only we can do in the world and that there's a point.

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