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 there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to a bonus episode of the Confidence Podcast. It's an episode we wanted to host at the beginning of the year.

Well, to give you a way to instantly increase your confidence, because full transparency today, I want to give you an inside lesson about what it means to work with me.

Because when you make a decision to say yes to yourself, you are instantly accelerating your self-respect, you're instantly accelerating and elevating your belief.

You're instantly giving yourself approval versus waiting for others to give you approval, and the way to instantly increase your confidence, wherever it is in your confidence journey.

And by the way, that journey, there's new finish line, y'all. Every level has new devils, every, every, I mean, any ideal dream you have, you need a whole new level of confidence encouraged, executed.

And I mean, from just wanting to have the confidence to look in the mirror, to wanting to lead the world and change the world and be a household name, wherever you fall in that spectrum, your confidence and working it consistently is imperative.

And so one of the ways that you can instantly increase your confidence is to say yes to yourself.

And here's what I want you to know, you're not going to feel ready. You're definitely not going to feel good enough, but you need to say yes anyways.

And I don't know if you know some of my story, what got me started, but there's two significant people in my life who are the only reason I'm behind this mic today, my voice is going round the globe, we're in almost every single country.

Thanks to Sharon Robertson and Todd Durkin, because I wasn't ready to start when I did, but my mentor Sharon Robertson, who was someone I knew through the gym at the time, gathered me and two of my friends who were, we were doing a little book club, reading self-help books and personal development books, and we were kind of dabbling in entrepreneurship.

And Sharon is responsible for the website jobs.com and it upselling it before, you know, the dot com boost and just was a super, super example of what a woman can do in a world that gives us options.

And Sharon just pulled us aside, she said, can I come to your little book club? And I was like, yeah, like we would love your insight, like so eager.

And she came in one month and then the next month, she said, can I come back? And I can remember to the state we were sitting in this little Chinese restaurant, actually was a Vietnamese restaurant.

And she pulled, she sat down and she goes, I said, I want to talk to you guys about your business plans. And at that point, I said, well, I'm just having fun, I don't really have a business.

And she said, yeah, you do. And she pulled out an envelope, she had just gone to the bank and in that envelope, we're $2,100 bills.

And she put them on the table in front of my friend, she and Alex and I and said, you guys have six weeks. The person who writes the best business plan gets this cash.

And you guys, I didn't have time to do the work. And she also then gave us the outline of what she expected in a business plan and it needed to be spiral bound.

I need to do this and this and this and have projections. It was a foreign language to me at that point.

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