#701: Saying "No" With Confidence
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
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If saying no makes you feel guilty, anxious, or like you're letting people down—this episode is for you.
In this episode of The Confidence Podcast, we're breaking down how to say no with confidence—without overexplaining, people-pleasing, or spiraling about what others think.
You'll learn:
- Why saying no feels so hard (and what's really going on)
- The hidden cost of always saying yes
- How to say no clearly, kindly, and confidently
- A simple 3-step framework to set boundaries without guilt
- The identity shift required to stop people-pleasing for good
Because confidence isn't about doing more—it's about choosing better.
👉 If you're ready to stop overcommitting and start honoring your time, energy, and goals, this episode will change the way you show up in your life.
🎧 Listen now and start practicing your next confident "no."
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| 0:00.0 | You don't have a time problem. |
| 0:01.8 | You don't even have a boundary problem. |
| 0:05.0 | You have a confidence problem around saying no. |
| 0:09.6 | Because every time you say yes, when you mean no, you chip away at your self-trust. |
| 0:17.4 | And the truth that most people won't come to terms with is that every yes that isn't |
| 0:23.8 | aligned with what you really want to say yes to is a quiet betrayal of yourself. So today we're |
| 0:33.4 | fixing that. This is for those people pleasers. This is for those you who go, I want to know how to |
| 0:37.9 | say no, but it is uncomfortable. I'm going to teach you today in today's episode how to say no |
| 0:45.1 | without guilt, without over-explaining, and without spiraling about what people may or may not |
| 0:51.9 | think because confident people don't say yes to everything. |
| 0:55.0 | In fact, they say no with confidence and they say yes to what matters and no to everything |
| 1:00.8 | else. And in today's episode, we're going to learn exactly how to do that. |
| 1:05.7 | Welcome to the Confidence podcast, your go-to space for high-performance coaching designed for ambitious, high-achieving |
| 1:13.4 | individuals who want more out of life. You deserve the confidence that rises to meet your dreams. |
| 1:20.1 | This podcast will help you activate it fully. I'm your host, Trish Blackwell. Let's get started. |
| 1:27.2 | Hey there, I'm Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. |
| 1:31.8 | This is episode number 701. We have crossed that milestone of 700. And if you are new to the show, |
| 1:40.6 | I want to welcome you. I drop new episodes every Tuesday and it is my goal that is |
| 1:44.6 | quick and it is applicable in a very easy to implement way to your life so that by listening to |
| 1:51.5 | this show each and every week, you feel yourself becoming different and thinking differently |
| 1:57.1 | about yourself, about your life, about what is possible from the inside out. So make |
| 2:01.8 | sure you're hitting, subscribe if you're not yet following the show. And if you want to up the |
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