#659: Disappointment & Embarrassment: How to Bounce Back Like It Didn’t Break You

The Confidence Podcast: Confidence Tips for Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Self-Love, Self-Confidence and Courage to Overcome Self-

Trish Blackwell | Life Coach, Confidence Coach, Mindset Coach

Impostorsyndrome, Education, Positivepsychology, Christianity, Confidencecoach, Christianlifecoach, Religion & Spirituality, Christianmentalhealth, Self-improvement, Eatingdisorders, Confidence, Accountabilitycoaching, Bodyimage

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Disappointment stings. Embarrassment lingers. But what if they didn’t have to define you or derail you? In this episode, we’re normalizing these emotions, removing the shame around them, and giving you confidence tools to bounce back faster and stronger. Whether you missed a goal, fumbled in public, or felt exposed and judged—this episode will help you process it, reframe it, and rise anyway.

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Why these feelings feel so heavy—and how to lighten them
A 3-step bounce-back formula for any confidence “crash”
What your embarrassment is really trying to teach you
How to stop replaying the moment and start rewriting your response

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0:00.0	ever said anything super awkward and then replayed it a thousand times in your head or maybe missed a
0:08.1	goal but immediately felt like everyone could see your failure let's be real disappointments
0:14.6	and feeling embarrassed can feel like it hits you at the core of who you are, at your soul. There's this wave of shame
0:22.8	that comes over. But in today, I want to teach you how to bounce back. I want to teach you how
0:28.2	to normalize the emotions of intense disappointment and intense embarrassment so that you are no
0:35.1	longer held back by fear of what if that happens or how do I
0:38.3	navigate past that, that those no longer be blocks. They're just normal steps on your
0:43.5	path to success. And in today's episode, we're going to talk about how to bounce back from these
0:48.2	two interesting and intense emotions that keep a lot of people cornered small and stuck and how to make sure that you
0:55.4	are not one of those people held back by any fear of what people think, any fear that they might
1:00.5	not like you, any fear of being embarrassed so that you don't avoid failure or the potential of
1:06.5	awkwardness. If you continue to live in a way or pursue your goals out of fear that you're going to get embarrassed or be disappointed and that we're avoiding disappointments by disappointing ourselves first by not going all in, well, then we're going to play small.
1:24.0	We are here on this podcast.
1:26.3	If you're listening to this podcast,
1:27.5	you know that you're made for more, you know that you want more, you know that you have been
1:30.9	given high capacity to do big things with your life. And we're going to make sure that you're
1:36.0	not held back by these two little emotions and feelings that for me actually personally
1:41.0	held me back for years. So I'm going to give you some strategies that have helped me and helped hundreds of my clients as well.
1:48.6	Let's dive in.
1:49.2	You're listening to the Confidence Podcast, where we do confidence coaching for driven, high achieving women who want more.
1:57.1	Because high achieving women deserve high level confidence.
2:01.3	I'm your host, Trish Blackwell.
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