Fake Confidence Before 40

Heal, Survive & Thrive!

Stephanie Lyn

Education:self-improvement, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, we’re talking about fake confidence that version of “confidence” many of us had before 40 that was really just validation-seeking in disguise. We thought we were confident because we looked good, had achievements, or kept it all together, but deep down, we didn’t truly love or accept ourselves. I’ll share how to recognize the difference between external confidence and real self-love, and what it actually means to feel confident from the inside out. For more information visit: www.StephanieLynLifeCoaching.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/StephanieLynCoaching LTK: https://www.shopltk.com/explore/StephanieLynStyle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanielyncoach/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeg1m9pu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephanielyncoaching Thank you for your love and support! Stephanie

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's podcast. Happy fall. It is a crisp day here. It is beautiful outside. Leads
0:06.7	are falling. It's just such a great time of year. But I wanted to open up this week's conversation and talk a little bit more about confidence.
0:15.9	And particularly the confidence that I think we sometimes think that we used to have and that we just lost because
0:24.9	things are starting to change a little bit. How we, you know, we wrap how we feel about ourselves
0:30.6	so much around what size jeans we're wearing, you know, what our skin looked like years ago. And that's just
0:40.4	not the case. And I want to talk about it because I think it's important to understand that
0:44.0	who we were when we were younger wasn't exactly the most confident person either. I think we just
0:50.1	think we were so much confident because, you know, we were a size two or a size six or whatever.
0:57.3	We had longer hair.
0:59.0	It was healthier.
1:00.4	We didn't have, you know, these wrinkles or we didn't maybe even feel the way that we feel now.
1:06.4	I know that sounds like a little shocking, but I want you to kind of stay with me because
1:10.8	this conversation is really important because a lot of it has to do with... know that sounds like a little shocking, but I want you to kind of stay with me because this
1:11.1	conversation is really important because a lot of it has to do with the perception or the
1:16.7	perspective, I should say, that we think we were confident then and that we just aren't now.
1:24.1	And we're going to unpack kind of the layers of what confidence really means and how when you
1:30.4	have confidence in your 40s and you really work on yourself it's it's different it's different than
1:36.7	any other time in your life because it's easy to feel really good about yourself when you can
1:43.0	eat anything you want and you're still super
1:45.3	thin or you could do whatever you want to your hair and it's still healthy and shiny or,
1:50.4	you know, it's easy to be positive when you have a lot of success coming in or things are
1:56.5	working well, but when things aren't going so well, how do you really find that confidence
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stephanie Lyn, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Stephanie Lyn and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.