HOW TO EXUDE CONFIDENCE 
PODCAST #385
To become someone who exudes confidence, you become someone who also becomes a magnet to success and happiness. This episode breaks down exactly how to train your confidence and thoughts about yourself in order to exponentially grow your confidence to that "exude" level that is contagious. Your contagious confidence has the power to encourage the world; it's worth the work it takes to get there. Get the full show notes at www.trishblackwell.com/386 

In this episode of The Confidence Podcast we're talking about:

What makes someone exude confidence 
The fundamentals to being more confident - how to start exuding yourself (training)
The difference between "capability confidence" and "character confidence"

You exude confidence - and I want to know how to have that.
The answer? It's a commitment to curiosity, challenging myself and congruency. 
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TRAIN YOUR THOUGHTS 
How we think in general determines how we feel about ourselves and our capabilities.
Take the training of your thoughts seriously:

Journal
Add openness to your life.
Get a coach
Read and study
Notice and celebrate growth

KNOW WHAT'S NORMAL & WHAT'S NOT 
It's normal to have a little voice of self-doubt.
It's normal to care about the opinions of others.
It's normal to feel awkward and quirky being yourself.
It's normal to self-sabotage and create blocks in your own path 
It's what you do with what's normal that makes you confident. 
Don't allow these normal things make you freeze or not move forward. 
"Being yourself" doesn't always come easy or feel natural - in the same way that starting a workout never really "feels good" - but it gets easier, feels amazing and is always worth it once you get past that. 
The key to confidence is to take action no matter what.
Become an "action-taker" and you will naturally build your courage muscles, which lead to more confidence and capability, which renders results and which then ultimately perpetuates a new cycle of more action-taking, courage, confidence, and results. 
DEEPEN YOUR FUNDAMENTALS

Love is everything. When you are loved you bloom.
Love gives me all the acceptance I need.
Love releases you from needing to prove yourself.
Love inspires you to have courage beyond yourself.
Love invites others in.

I was told I was loved most of my life, and when I felt it, my confidence shone. In the moments and seasons of my life that I disconnected myself from the source of love - and from family - my confidence became grounded in what I did and how I compared to others, rather than in a foundation that was unshakeable.