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 guys, I bet you didn't expect this coming and I hope this brings a smile to your face. We're doing a bonus episode. I want to briefly talk about stress.

Because we have something really exciting coming up starting next week. If you're listening live, we go live August 15th through August 19th every single day of the week.

I'm going to be live on Zoom, teaching you through my five step protocol on how to reduce your stress and increase your success.

Because our stress blocks us from achieving what our fullest potential is. Our stress, however you express it, ends up being the limitation for you to tap into the flow of what your life has with the capacity

and the ability to be. Now, you might not define it as stress. You might think of it as overwhelmed or just some cynicism or an overpacked schedule or you feel stretched to then.

But stress, however it expresses it within you, it's blocking you. It's blocking your happiness. It's limiting your belief.

It creates fertile soil for fear and we know we cannot operate from a place of fear to create a life that has breakthrough faith and does big, epic things.

Now, another way that I, in least in my own life, found stress manifesting itself was through overthinking.

I overthought everything, second guess to everything and everything, the pressure I would put on myself to be perfect, to know what to do, to feel good, to always feel like I was organized and in control.

I would have never defined that as stress, but I was at the core level stressed. I lived in a constant state of stress.

When I was struggling with my body image, when I was trying to lose the last five pounds and felt like I was in a constant cycle of overeating and then under eating and then overexercising and under exercising and beating myself up, it was a low grade self perpetuated stress.

So we're talking about all kinds of things, stress. Now, you might be like raising your hand saying, I'm an attorney who is working 70 hours a week, I got stress.

But maybe you're saying to yourself, gosh, I never called it stress, but yeah, I beat myself up. I'm always disappointed. I'm feeling behind. I want to offer to you that we have the opportunity here to attack your stress.

The stress you feel is directly related to the thought to think, which means we have so much more control over our stress levels than we think that we do.

So that's why I want I want to invite you to learn how to radically reduce the stress you feel, even if you feel like the circumstances in your life right now aren't able to immediately change.

And so if you want to decrease your stress, as we're getting ready to go into the to the fall, your kids are going back to school or you're going back to school or just the season is changing.

This is the perfect time to reset your brain to get a taste of what it feels like to coach with me. And I have a huge announcement. I don't think I've made this public yet.

But when you register for this challenge, which is just $37 one time payment and I'm so committed to making this worth 10 times anything you would ever spend on it.

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