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 551.

We're talking about a topic I think is going to stick with you. It's going to resonate with you, and I hope it challenges you, because here's the deal. Truth be told, life can feel massively unfair.

But you don't have to let the unfairness be a disadvantage. You can create your own unfair advantage so that you no longer feel behind or feel like you're starting from a disadvantaged place.

We're going to talk today about exactly how to reframe, how you think about your life, so that you can use your exact circumstances, your exact background, your exact limiting, quote-unquote limiting factors, to create confidence, to create power, to create breakthrough.

You're going to get everything you need in this episode of the Confidence Podcast. As always, you can get the full show notes at TrishBlackwell.com, 4-5-51.

And I just want to say thank you to everybody who's reaching out and saying, hi, I know you're following me, my family and I are living the dream.

And I share that, not to make you feel like life's unfair, but actually to prove my point here, that I decided 10 years ago.

And you heard this, if you haven't listened to episode 547, my 40th birthday podcast, which we talked about, a self-talk that changed my life and the self-talk that was changing at the difference of how I thought and how I talked to myself when I was 20, 30, and 40.

But also with the decisiveness I had, as a 30-year-old to say, every 10 years I'm going big from a birthday.

And so, and then what did I do? I made big declaration, but I've been disciplined in the margins, disciplined when other people aren't.

I've been willing to do and try and fail and take risks and get back up and be massively resilient, to create micro-progress that eventually, when you look at it 10 years later, looks like massive progress.

And the same will go for you. And so I just want to be, I want to be an example of what's possible.

I just, I was a little girl from Lake of the Woods, Virginia, middle of Boondocks, who had parents who said, and truly made her believe that anything is possible.

And I don't care if you were a little girl when you heard that or if you're just hearing it from the first time in a real way that you can believe today from me, but truly anything is possible.

You've got to decide what you want, then you've got to do the work, you've got to commit, and you've got to be willing to fail and fall along the way.

And I owe that belief to my parents, and I just say that right now, and I also owe a lot of my freedom and my willingness to take big risk to my parents who never really understood why I love France or why I do the things I like, and definitely way more extra in general than my family.

You know, I accessorize, I wear big earrings, my mom hates jewelry, I love makeup, she hates, I'm just different, I've always been the little black sheep of my family.

And the, but they've always supported and they said, we don't need to understand, but go for it. And so the freedom that they gave me and I want to give you that same freedom.

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