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Hosted by John M Walsh · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 35 episodes
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Let's Talk About Confidence examines the one capability that determines whether you'll attempt what matters most—and whether you'll persist when it gets hard. Not a personality trait. Not positive thinking. A learnable behaviour built through repetition, pressure, and consequence. Confidence isn't something you're born with—it's something you build through boring repetition, sustained pressure, and real-world consequences. Hosted by John M Walsh, this podcast explores how actual confidence develops in adults who've been tested. From founders who've rebuilt after failure, to leaders managing high-stakes decisions, to professionals who've had to perform without feeling ready. These aren't motivational stories. They're honest conversations about: How confidence is built (the unglamorous truth) How it's lost (and what that reveals) How it's rebuilt (often stronger than before) How it shows up in
John M Walsh hosts Let's Talk About Confidence, a business show with 35 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Watching someone build confidence in real time is far more interesting than hearing slogans about “believing in yourself”. I sit down with Stuart Cuzner, now a partner at Menzies, a top 20 UK accountancy
Send us Fan Mail The most dangerous moment in any change is rarely the crisis. It’s the quiet Tuesday when nothing is obviously getting better and you start to wonder if you’re wasting your time. We’re near the end of Se
Send us Fan Mail A terminal diagnosis changes the way you hear the word “confidence”. When Ron Cox joined us, he brought the headline results (helping turn a $2.5m deficit into a business generating $1m a day) but he als
Send us Fan Mail Somewhere behind most “confidence problems” sits a quieter story: you tried something, it went wrong, and you never quite did it again. I’m John M. Walsh, and today I’m getting honest about the moment wh
Send us Fan Mail The child who sits quietly and hopes not to be noticed is often the child who needs the most care. I’m joined by educator and author Bridget Kengler, who spent her early school years feeling invisible, t
Send us Fan Mail One small word can quietly decide which rooms you enter and which chances you never take. We start with a common line many people say before a work social or a big meeting: “I can’t, I get really anxious
Send us Fan Mail You know that moment you walk into a crowded room and instantly forget what to do with your hands? Your heart kicks up, your brain starts narrating your every move, and it feels like everyone has noticed
Send us Fan Mail Your body knows exactly when the stakes rise. The heart speeds up, the mouth dries out, the mind starts writing escape plans and suddenly all your competence is trapped behind a nervous system alarm. Tha
Send us Fan Mail You know the feeling: you’re fine until the meeting starts, the presentation slide appears, or you have to say the thing you’ve been rehearsing for days. Your chest tightens, your mouth dries up, and the
Send us Fan Mail You can be competent, reliable, even highly paid, and still feel like you are fading at work. I want to end season two with the difference that changes everything: being good at your job versus being ali
Send us Fan Mail What if every decision you make is less about the outcome and more about who you’re becoming? We dive into the heart of confident living by reframing choices as identity-building moments, showing how sma
Send us Fan Mail Growth is supposed to feel empowering, so why does it sometimes make your friendships feel heavy? We talk about the uncomfortable truth that as your confidence rises, your boundaries tighten, and your st
Send us Fan Mail Two letters can quietly take over your life. When you build your identity around being helpful and dependable, “yes” starts to feel like the only acceptable answer, even when you are exhausted, stretched
Send us Fan Mail One meaningful failure can change how you move through the world. Not in obvious ways like quitting or giving up, but in smaller tells: you hesitate before speaking, you wait for consensus, you overprepa
Send us Fan Mail High performers are supposed to feel confident, so why do so many of us quietly feel like we’re bluffing? I take that question seriously and pull apart the mechanics behind it, because the pattern is far
Send us Fan Mail People don’t resist instructions as much as they resist the person giving them. In this bonus episode of Let’s Talk About Confidence, I unpack a small TV moment that reveals something big about leadershi
Send us Fan Mail Losing the thing that defines you can feel like losing yourself. Charlie grew up with football as her identity, her social glue, and the place her confidence came easiest, until two knee injuries made th
Send us Fan Mail Every decision you make quietly writes your identity in ink. In this episode we explore how decision making builds real confidence.The real question isn’t “Will this work?” but “What kind of person does
Send us Fan Mail What if your confidence vanished the moment you stepped off a plane? That’s where Raman found herself after moving from India to the UK for love—suddenly navigating new accents, social codes, and invisib
Send us Fan Mail Stop trying to solve your life with abstract values and start paying attention to what pulls you when no one is watching. We walk through a practical, science-backed shift: picture a real day in a life t
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Let's Talk About Confidence is hosted by John M Walsh. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 35 episodes.
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