#692:About to Give Up? Listen to This First
The Confidence Podcast: Mindset Coaching and Tips to Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs, Self-Doubt, Perfectionism, Overthinking, Impostor Syndrome and Insecurity
Trish Blackwell | Life Coach, Confidence Coach, Mindset Coach
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like you're doing all the right things… and nothing is working?
You're showing up.
You're trying.
You're putting in effort.
And yet… no breakthrough. No traction. No visible results.
This episode is for the moment when motivation dips, doubt gets loud, and quitting feels logical.
Inside this episode, we'll talk about:
- Why progress often goes invisible before it becomes inevitable
- The dangerous lie that results = effort
- What's actually happening when nothing seems to be working
- The mindset shift that keeps high achievers from quitting too soon
Because sometimes the moment that feels like failure…
…is actually the moment right before the breakthrough.
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| 0:00.0 | You ever feel like you're doing all of the right things, but nothing is working. |
| 0:05.5 | You're showing up, you're trying, you're putting the effort, you're working on your belief, |
| 0:10.1 | and yet no breakthrough, no traction, no visible results, and everyone around you seems to be |
| 0:17.6 | getting results, but you aren't and you are a positive person. You know |
| 0:22.7 | you can do anything. But now you're starting to wonder. The progress feels invisible. And this |
| 0:29.8 | episode is for you. If you are putting an effort, if you are showing up, if you're doing all |
| 0:36.7 | the things that you said you're going to do, but the traction, the payoff, the momentum, it's not coming. You are feeling internally frustrated and you're afraid to say it out loud because you don't want to make that more concrete. And you may be even thinking thoughts like, why am I even trying? And that is when most people quit. It's not that they quit because they're |
| 0:54.9 | lazy or they're not capable. They quit because they realize that it's going to take more than |
| 0:59.7 | they thought and they misinterpret the length of commitment as a reflection of their capability. |
| 1:09.7 | But I want to tell you today that the moment where it feels like nothing is working |
| 1:13.3 | is actually the moment that matters the most. |
| 1:17.7 | Today we're talking about what really matters in the nothing is working phase, in the |
| 1:22.7 | I've tried it all phase, and why this phase is actually required to be a stepping stone on your |
| 1:29.8 | pathway to success and how to move through it without self-doubt stealing your future. |
| 1:35.7 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:36.9 | Welcome to the Confidence Podcast, your go-to space for high-performance coaching designed for |
| 1:42.8 | ambitious, high- high achieving individuals who want |
| 1:45.9 | more out of life. You deserve the confidence that rises to meet your dreams. This podcast will |
| 1:52.2 | help you activate it fully. I'm your host, Trish Blackwell. Let's get started. |
| 1:58.4 | Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. |
| 2:02.5 | You're in episode 692, and my gosh, am I glad to be with you? |
| 2:08.8 | At the time of this recording, we are releasing right around Valentine's Day. |
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