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.

The podcast go to one-stop shop resource for all things confidence today is episode 566, and we're talking today about how to be more likeable.

Because when you like yourself, others will like you more, and that increases your overall likeability factor.

Now, increasing your likeability factor can open doors of opportunity, expand favor in your life, and make you appear more confident to others.

Now, you might go, wait, Trish, you talk all the time about not caring what people think, why are we coaching on likeability?

Well, because there's a difference between being likeable and caring too much what people think.

These are very different things, although it seems like by increasing your desire to be liked, or to increase your likeability factor that you were then caring what people think.

And we're going to coach today on the difference in how to navigate these in a clean way.

This episode is going to help you also find the courage to be disliked, as well as how to increase your overall likeability.

There's a duality that happens to be likeable, you also have to be willing to be disliked, to be unlikable, and that all starts first with liking yourself.

You're going to listen to this for I'm going to give you 19 ways to be more likeable, while also releasing some of that pressure that you're putting on yourself about whether or not people like you.

We're going to be talking about why likeability matters, the difference between being likeable and caring too much what people think, and the upside in being disliked.

This is a good episode if you care about what people think, or you want to be more likeable, or it's confusing, this episode is for you.

I have our listener of the week, and this is an unusual listener of the week, and I actually have a bit in my stomach, as I say this.

My listener of the week is my sweet, sweet puppy, who just went to Doggy Heaven, Finnegan.

We lost him a week ago today of my recording, and it was very sudden, and so many of you have just out poured love to us.

He was my first baby. He was nine years old. We got him when I was pregnant with my daughter.

He started my business with me, and the reason it was a very sudden, very unexpected, awful loss.

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