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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. This is episode 569. In today's episode, we're talking about soul confidence.

I want to talk about how to uncomplicate faith and find meaning in life.

There are some unshagable confidence that gets, if that bone deep confidence, and I like to call it soul confidence, and soul confidence is different than confidence that's self-focused.

I consider soul confidence God-focused. It's strengthened by deepening one's relationship with God, and this episode is for you.

If you want to help find deeper meaning and fulfillment through deepening your faith, it's going to help you uncomplicate any challenging or painful past relationships with religion or faith that we're potentially imposed on you, and we're going to talk in a unique way that we don't typically talk about on this episode.

I'm not like normal coaches in the coaching industry. Most coaches tell you that you have all the answers you need, and I do believe you have a lot of the answers.

I believe that the most profound answers that we receive are from when we spend time in relationship with God.

Instead of telling you to manifest your own path forward, I encourage you to seek wisdom from the Lord that you might have the courage and confidence to walk in his plan for your life, because what I know to be true is that God's plans for me are always, and I mean always, like, epically so better than my plans for myself.

If you yearn for deeper connection, that soul deep confidence, then honestly it starts with spending more time with God.

When I talk about God, I don't talk, I'm speaking from the Christian faith, and I love my faith.

The difference of a Christian faith versus many faith is that it's not a religion, it's a relationship. It's about a relationship with God and a relationship with Jesus Christ.

In this episode, if you're yearning for that, this episode is for you. If you're not yearning for something deeper or to go into what a relationship with God looks like, then I would say, see you on the next episode, and we can't wait to see you back here.

This week we're going to explore how faith creates the most unshakable foundation of confidence, habits that strengthen your faith and increase your sense of purpose.

And then really one of my favorite things is what God actually says about you and your potential.

And so why this episode? Well, two reasons. I had two people reach out. One is Melanie. She said, Trish, I'm a long time member of the COC, and I wanted to pop on and say a huge thank you for incorporating more faith into your coaching.

The last handful of podcasts and coaching that I have taken, I've noticed you mentioning things from a faith perspective, and it really hits the coaching home for me.

And so she requested a future episode on coaching on emotions from a faith perspective and Melanie, that will be down the line.

But then we also got an email from someone I'm going to say, I'm going to call her S. And she said this. Hey, Trish, this seems like an utterly ridiculous problem.

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