Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Deeding and Confidence Podcast. My name is Amber, and today I'm going to be

talking about feeling like a failure. So this topic is very current for me and it's something that I've been

struggling with lately and so I want to be open and honest about that and also share with you some

of the insights that I've had as I've been going through this experience that have been

helping me in dealing with this. So to give you a little background, I started my coaching business six

months ago, but I've been coaching for about two years through the Center for Social Confidence.

So that's where my experience comes from. And then six months ago, I decided to also start my

own business around my coaching skills. And part of what's been contributing to me

feeling like a failure is not having the expected results that I wanted in six months. And lately,

I've been really struggling with my expectations of where I thought things would be in my

business and the reality of where things be in my business and the reality of where

things are in my business and having a lot of judgments about myself and about my capabilities

and a lot of self-doubt and all of that stuff coming up. And as I've been going through that,

of course, I'm such a self-help junkie, so I'm listening to

podcasts and reading books, and I'm also in a coaching program myself, and so I've been

reaching out for support there. And I noticed some of the things that are contributing to me

feeling this way. And also, I don't think it's productive to feel that way. When you don't get a

result that you want, whether it's in dating or your career or in your relationship, in your family

life, like whatever you're doing, like whatever effort you're putting into something, and it's not

coming back in the way that you expected or wanted. It doesn't help to be

judgmental about yourself, to feel like a failure, to feel like a loser. It's not supporting you

and moving forward. So the first thing that I realized was contributing to me feeling this way is my

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