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. This is episode 547.

We're talking today about self-talk that can change your life because I'm giving you the inside look to the self-talk that changed my life.

Tomorrow's my birthday. Tomorrow's my big 4-0, and I gotta tell you, I am happier, more vibrant, more alive, more fulfilled, just more me now than I ever have been before, but it's not by accident.

It's by intention. It's through the work I've done and the last 15 years of personal growth, of coaching, of really truly self-talk, starting with my self-talk.

And if you know my story, I want to remind you that I wasn't always a powerful self-talker. In fact, I was a pretty powerful, negative self-talker.

I had a lot of positive self-talk, a lot of positive belief, and then I derailed myself with discouragement. I thought that the timing was wrong in my life.

I thought I had wasted my opportunities in life, and I got down on myself. I got down on my future. I got down about what life could be, and I lost hope.

There was a season in my life where I lost hope completely, and if you are anywhere at all numb today, or discouraged, or feeling like it's too late, or you're too small, or you're not capable, I need you to be stirred today.

I want this episode to stir the potential within you, because the way we talk to ourselves can be the game-changing decision, and deciding factor over the life you're going to have our thoughts, create our emotions, our emotions, create our actions, and the actions we take in the world create the results we want with our life.

We create through thought, and so the thoughts that you're thinking about things, those are important, but the thoughts you think about yourself, the thoughts in the talk that you have with yourself, that's the stuff that transforms, that's the power.

The way you talk to yourself changes your life, because negative self-talk can lead to feelings of anxiety, self-doubt, depression, but positive self-talk boosts your confidence, your resilience, your overall well-being, and I'm going to share with you how to improve your self-talk today.

My gift to you, my birthday, well I do actually hang tight, I've got a great birthday gift for you. You're going to hear about it in just a moment, but my other birthday gift, perhaps the more meaningful one, is that whatever your current state of self-talk is, doesn't have to stay, whatever the thoughts are that you've thought about yourself, they don't have to be the permanent ones.

You can change how you talk any time, you can change how you talk any time, and it will change your life.

Let's go to our review of the week. This is on B, D, Wall, 23, Wall, Just, Wall, Trish, I'm finally writing review, I've shared your posts and commented numerous times on Instagram, but that's not enough.

I had to come tell you and all your listeners how important you are to me. I started listening to you in December of 2022, after deciding to give self-help, self-care podcasts, another try.

I have to admit it, I wasn't ready to receive the advice I was being given. I thought I had it all figured out. The title of the podcast, the calming sound of your voice and real life experiences that you share, has continuously given me life.

In such a short time, I'm already a different person. Sometimes I will listen to your podcasts and immediately replay it just to make sure I heard every word, because your words are truly valuable.

I have shared your podcasts with my clients, and they are coming into training sessions, literally repeating what they've heard you say.

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