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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 529.

Oh, it's time to stir the greatness within you. It's time to wake yourself up to your fullest potential.

Today's episode is called Playing Small. How to live up to your potential. How to know if you're even doing that. What to pursue. How to do it?

Guys, I got you covered, and I'm coming off into today's recording so inspired, because I'm thinking about people who go all in.

I have just two ridiculous examples for you. One doesn't seem so ridiculous, but in comparison to the other one I'm going to mention to you, I think you might just...

Come on, this is to open your mind, to think more just creatively, and openly to what you can do with your life that will inspire others.

By you just being the fullest version of you, by you pursuing your fullest potential by not playing small.

The first is, last night my friend, my girlfriend and I went and we went to the One of Dance with Somebody, the New Whitney Houston movie, and I highly recommend it.

Although I was both stressed and inspired the whole time. It was a very confusing emotional experience, but my gosh, the talent.

The storytelling of it in it is magnificent, but the talent, the pursuit of one's fullest potential, her being the voice, the voice of the generation.

I mean, I'm like playing non-stop Whitney right now. It's like all I've worked out to today.

I feel moved when I see someone step into their potential, when they are playing big, when your voice is big, when you're being this really flow of talent.

It's not just beautiful, it moves other people.

And the same way, so we just got back from the gym and my kids, you know, were it's a family afternoon, my kids are watching this YouTube channel that we found.

And I forget the guy's name, Rob, something.

And he sets up 20-minute videos of obstacle courses for squirrels. That's right, squirrels.

But his storytelling and his, with two months of prep into installing all this, these really well designed, mechanically designed features.

And he tells a story of a narrative that I couldn't stop watching. I was supposed to be recording this 20 minutes ago, but I couldn't stop watching these.

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