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, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast Episode 521. This episode is for you.

If you want to have more confidence speaking up, now that could be public speaking in the traditional stands. It could be being participatory in class or in meetings.

It could be simply speaking your mind whether to friends and family in a relationship or having social courage to speak more confidently on social media.

This episode is going to go over some tips on really just trusting yourself to be yourself, just speaking at what you have to say matters.

Now, if you are in sales of any sort, your confidence in your ability to speak and to be persuasive is absolutely critical to your success, to you standing out, to you creating more income, more value in the world, to you communicating that which you are selling, that how impactful it be to the lives of those who you are trying to sell it to.

So this is also for those of you who have a business or in sales, and you guys, we are all in sales. We are selling ourselves all the time, whether you're in high school trying to get to college and you're selling yourself to the colleges, you're selling yourself within the corporation that you work for to get a promotion, you're selling yourself to other people all the time.

So how you communicate is critical.

And so public speaking, speak your mind no longer needs to panic you or make you feel anxious or unsure of yourself. I cannot wait to pull back the veil.

Because in this podcast episode, I'm going to give you practical and easy to implement tips to improve yourself confidence for the next time you speak in public, the next time you sell something, the next time you raise your hand, or the next time you're trying to speak your mind or offer your opinion about something that matters to you.

I want to normalize some of what happens. I want you to know that the brain is going to always offer us some panic. The brain is always going to say, it's this unsafe that you're going to listen to this episode and learn that some of the overthinking that you're doing is normal and that it's not something you need to worry about or even listen to.

Here's the other thing you don't need to be extroverted or even 100% confident in yourself to appear more confident when speaking in front of others in at the end of this episode, I'm going to teach you how to trust yourself and how to keep your thoughts in a place of confidence instead of a place of self judgment and fear for the next time you speak because that's what happens.

We start judging ourselves about being awkward or saying the wrong thing, we're not being eloquent enough, we're not really knowing, and then we assume that people are saying things or thinking things about us and we get distracted and we go to a place of insecurity rather than staying firm in our place of confidence knowing that we have something good to say.

We're going to talk about all things about speaking and using your voice. Hey, our review of the week is from LTR 1101. They just said, love it. Love this podcast just on it last week and it has already helped so much looking forward to listening to even more episodes and going on this confidence journey. I got to say, thank you, friend, for listening to the show and a week letter writing review that that hits me hard.

That makes my heart smile. So thank you. So if you've not written a review, but thought about it, it's time, y'all, it's time. I also wanted to highlight, we have some incredible feedback from some of our members in the college of confidence.

Three recent re testimonials that we got was just the change in this COC, we create change, we change our lives, we take things here on the podcast and then we actually work it out into our lives.

To really cultivate our confidence, really, really create courage and then go step into our calling. So Shaina said this, she has business growth from being in the COC. She says, I'm getting more clients in my business because I'm more bold now.

I have more positivity and power in my daily life. I'm learning how and to practice having my own back through the decisions that others disagree with. And I'm bringing it to my business more and my business growth and my personal flow of peace in life is evident. I believe now. I recommend the COC because the support is so practical and positive slash effective. Thank you, Shaina.

Anna Barr said this, she went from freedom to anxiety. I have confidence and ease in every room I'm in now, family functions where I've known everyone my whole life to gatherings where that used to make my stomach hurt, thinking of seeing them and social settings with people I used to think were fancier in the me.

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