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 there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast, the podcast, where you can trust that you'll always have a takeaway that you can apply directly to your life right away in a way that elevates your confidence, that elevates your courage, and helps you step in to your God-given calling.

If you're new to the show, I just want to say welcome. I'm so glad you stumbled upon the show, and I think there's a reason you're here. If you are a riot or die, you've been with me for 550 episodes.

I'm so happy you're here too. By the way, in the podcast apps, only about 300 episodes show up. If you want to go into the archives and access the first two or 300, they're all on my website.

Just go to TrishBlackwell.com. You'll on the menu bar toggle podcasts, and you'll see them all listed. We also, you may not know, have a search bar.

So if you scroll halfway down my podcast page, which is just on TrishBlackwell.com, you can also directly access it at TrishBlackwell.com slash podcast.

You can type in a keyword, and it will pull up all of the episodes that talk about said keyword. That's cool, right?

So, hey, that's a resource for you. In this week, we're talking about not measuring up. If you've ever felt like you don't measure up in your life, this episode is for you.

The feeling of not feeling enough, or like you're not doing enough, or not popular enough, or not pretty enough, or not smart enough, or not ready enough.

It's not as uncommon as you think. The unnecessary pressure that we inevitably put on ourselves can tarnish and damage our confidence, and ultimately keep us from the life that we are meant to live.

Not to mention, make life harder on yourself in general than it needs to be. This is maybe you're not feeling like you measure up compared to others, or based on your family's expectations, or you just feel like you've always been different.

I really wanted to dive into one of the topics that I struggled with so many, for so many years in my life, and that so many of my clients, I work with high achieving women who are capable of crazy things, but often sell sabotage, right?

I work with a lot of doctors, lawyers, physicians, CEOs, entrepreneurs, achievers, doers.

And then there's always two sides, right, to a strength, and the sharp side, the double-edged sword is that we often beat ourselves up.

We often feel like even though we are excelling, that we could always do better, that there's always more, that we don't quite measure up to our own expectations.

So when we're talking today about not measuring up, I want to talk to you about the voice in your head, about the voice of whether or not you measure up and according to who.

This is an episode that's going to, we're going to kind of tickle and dance around the concept of comparison, right?

And so this is, I know this is going to bless you, and I'm just happy you're here.

Before we go into that, I do love to give you just one quick announcement, actually I have two, sorry, two quick announcements.

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