You're listening to the Confidence Podcast.

You're one-stop-shop for motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

I'm your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach and founder of the College of

Competence and I teach women how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of their shadows of

self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to train your thoughts. Let's get started.

Hey there, you are listening to the Confidence Podcast and I'm your host and confidence

coach Trish Blackwell and I listen there are probably about a million podcasts that you could listen to and you're hanging out here

with the Confidence family and it means the world to me so I need you to know I don't take the

the task of being your official encouragement lightly.

It is why I show it for my business each and every day.

So hey, we're talking about a great subject today.

One, I mean, I say this this often but truly it's near and

dear to my heart and that is putting pressure on yourself because putting on

your pressure on yourself doesn't work in fact it's a surefire way to wreck your

confidence to spiral into overthinking and to lose your joy and comparison and

jealousy. Putting pressure on yourself is a false profit that we've convinced ourselves will lead us to the success

that we so desperately crave, the acceptance, the place in this world.

But here's the thing, maybe our definition of success is a little skewed. Maybe there is a way the

thing maybe our definition of success is a little skewed.

Maybe there is a way to live free from the pressure, the guilt, the anxiety, the

comparison, the feeling behind and the feeling inadequate.

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