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 548.

Oh, it's a good one today because we're talking about something everyone struggles with. Self-doubt, self-doubt, and discouragement, and how to stay confident when both of those are present.

I just want you to know that self-doubt isn't a problem, unless you make it one.

If allowed to run wild self-doubt can be a powerful force that really holds us back from pursuing our goals and living our best lives, but with the right perspective, with the right mindset, with the right tools, we can actually learn to navigate self-doubt and maintain our confidence in the face of uncertainty.

In fact, we have just actually done some coaching on having confidence when things are uncertain, having confidence when things are out of your control.

We're doing that work in the College of Confidence right now, but I just want you to know that you can stay confident in the face of uncertainty by choosing to believe in what you can't yet see.

We're going to dive deeper. In this episode, you're going to get practical tips for managing self-doubt, including some reframing of negative thoughts, making sure you're surrounded by a support system, and setting achievable goals so you can create an extraordinary life.

As always, you can get the show notes if there's anything I say on the show today that you're like, whoa, whoa, got to write that down.

Go to Trish Blackwell.com-4-548. We have the transcript and we have notes for you there.

But I just want to have a heart to heart real quick. I want you to know that I hear a lot of feedback from you guys that say, look, you're an incredible encourager.

Like, I know my gifting is in encouragement. And it was awesome. And in the way that God has given me to think and how I use words and play with words, I know that the other reason I think that my coaching is effective.

The reason I think you're listening to this show is I also know how deep and dark discouragement feels.

The reason that I'm effective in coaching is because I know the pain of discouragement because I feel self-doubt, because I'm experiencing the full range of human emotions.

And I get to tell you, I feel when I feel I got high feelings and I have very deep low feelings, I am the full spectrum all in very intense in both ways.

And I don't make it a problem. It is why I'm able to empathize. It's why I'm able to understand just how derailing discouragement can be.

Just how heavy in your heart and prickly in your soul it feels when self-doubt just settles in and pokes holes in every dream that you had and every positive thought that you had.

And all of a sudden your life feels deflated. Nothing has gone wrong with your day, but you feel deflated and then you beat yourself up because you're walking around and you go, there's nothing going wrong. Why do I feel so terrible?

And that is why I love talking about these concepts. So in this episode, the coaching you're going to receive today is how just really to reframe that self-doubt isn't a problem.

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