The Self Trust Solution | Real Stories. Real Self-Trust.

The Self Trust Solution brings you real stories of self-trust in action. In Season 3, entrepreneurs, leaders and experts share the decisions, risks, setbacks and revelations that changed how they build, lead and live. Hosted by Dawn Ledet, The Self Trust Coach.Where are you standing? Know where your Floor is firm. Know where it’s still moving with results. Know where to work next. Three minutes.theselftrustcoach.com/begin

The Self Trust Solution | Real Stories. Real Self-Trust. is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 191 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #193

  The Cost of Self-Abandonment | Renea L. Moss on Leadership

  Sep 30, 202641 minS3

  Read the fullepisode breakdown + show notes: https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep193-the-cost-of-self-abandonment She had already started pointing her school families toward other schools when she realized the business wasn't the problem. The question mark in her leadership was. Renea L. Moss, also known as Rai Renea, is an award-winning author, speaker,and performer, and the founder of Forge Independent Schools. For years she poured into everyone around her and called it strength, until a health crisismade the cost impossible to ignore. Underneath her story is a self-trust question every leader eventually meets: do my needs count as much as everyone else's? In This Episode, We Explore: • Self-Abandonment Dressed as Strength: how serving everyone can look like leadership from the outside while quietly costing you everything on theinside • Either/Or Leadership: why "either they're happy or there are rules" left Renea's school confused, stalled, and running on her exhaustion • Over-Ownership: what changes when you stop owning things that were never yours to own, from an employee's performance to a stranger's opinion of youroutfit • Removing the Question Mark: why direct leadership is not unkind, and how wishy-washy directions quietly invite "what can I get away with" • Rai Renea, All of Her: why Renea stopped splitting the educator from the performer, and why it takes so much energy to not be you • No Apology in My Throat: the spoken word album born from refusing to apologize for who she is Episode Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and introducing Renea L. Moss 01:14 Pouring into everyone except herself 06:14 Boundaries, business fires, and a health crisis 14:19 The ER doctor's question and choosing herself 16:15 "Too sexy for this environment" and owning her full expression 22:11 Leadership without the question mark24:39 Almost closing the school, and deciding to stay27:40 It takes so much energy to not be you 32:39 No Apology in My Throat, rest, and what's next Connect with Renea L. Moss: Website: https://reneasworld.com/ Books: Mumblings of a Maniac, The Book of Rebellion, and the memoir How a Honeybun Almost Took Me Out. Spoken word album: No Apology in My Throat . Join the Conversation: This one is for the business owner who answers the 9 p.m. message, softens every direction so no one gets upset, and has quietly started wondering whether it's time to close the whole thing down. Before you decide the business is the problem, listen for the question mark. Where are you standing? Before more strategy, more effort, or another decision — know where you're standing. Three minutes. Your results, your floor, your next move. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/where-are-you-standing

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  Episode #192

  You Knew All Along | Katie O'Malley on Trusting Instincts

  Sep 23, 202634 minS3

  Read the fullepisode breakdown + show notes: https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep192-you-knew-all-along She knew her business partner was a problem the moment she met her, and she ignored it for two years anyway. Katie O'Malley is an executive coach and leadership educator, and the founder of (en)Courage Coaching, where she helps individuals, teams and organizations build authentic leadership and healthier workplace cultures. Her work has been featured in Fast Company and Thrive Global, and she delivered a TEDx talk in Boston in 2025. Underneath the resume, Katie spent two years overriding thesame instinct in her marriage, her business partnership and her father's care, until her body forced her to stop. In This Episode, We Explore: The First Instinct: How Katie's body flagged her future business partner as a problem before her mind had the words for it. Whose Voice Was She Actually Hearing: Why she believed the people calling her "too critical" over her own gut, and where that belief started. Thriving Business, Disappearing Self: How her business kept growing while she was disconnecting from her own life outside of it. The Pattern Across Three Relationships: What her father, her ex-husband and her business partner had in common, and how each one used the same line againsther. Write It Down, Say It Out Loud: The two-step practice Katie now uses to rebuild trust in her own read. The Decision She Made Without Asking Anyone: Why moving to the suburbs became proof that her instinct was already working again. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Welcome + Meet Katie O'Malley 00:54 The Season Everything Collided: 2023 03:20 The First Instinct: Meeting the "Would-Be" Business Partner 09:00 Why She Overrode Her Own Read 13:00 Thriving Business, Disappearing Self 16:41 Naming the Pattern Across Father, Husband and Business Partner 21:48 Rebuilding Trust: The Decision, the Body and the Permission She Gave Herself 34:45 Building enCourage Coaching and the enCourage Foundation Connect with Katie O'Malley: Instagram: @encouragecoachchicago Website: www.encouragecoaching.org LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kateomalley TedX Talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUNGPk978uE Join the Conversation: This one is for the coach or entrepreneur who has already called it, quietly, in a meeting, in a partnership conversation, in her own body, and then talked herself out of it because someone she trusted told her she was too critical tobe right. Where Are You Standing? Before more strategy, more effort, or another decision — know where you're standing. Three minutes. Your results, your floor, your next move. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/begin Ready to Fix the Floor in place? The Floor: Your Build The launch didn't perform the way you wanted. And somehow that reopened a decision you thought you'd already made. That's the Floor moving. This is where you fix it in place. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/the-floor-your-build https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/the-floor-your-build

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  Episode #191

  The Thought That Isn't New | Loren Finger on Career Change

  Sep 16, 202647 minS3

  Read the full episode breakdown + show notes: https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep191-the-thought-that-isnt-new What if "I don't know enough" isn't an honest assessment of your ability, but a familiar thought that has followed you into every room you were already qualified to enter? Loren Finger's career has crossed industries, professions, countries, and identities: executive recruitment, corporate law, nonprofit leadership, and CEO, before she built EmpowerHer Careers to help mothers navigate what comes next. This episode traces one recurring thought all the way back to her final year of school, and what changed once she recognized it as a decades-old pattern instead of a fact about her ability. In This Episode, We Explore: The Pattern, Not the Fact: how Loren traced "I don't know enough" back to childhood exams, long before it ever touched her business• Confirmation Bias in Real Time: why we scan for evidence of what we don't know while ignoring the evidence sitting right next to it Permission to Redecide: why a career decision made by an earlier version of you doesn't have to be honored by the version of you today The Golden Handcuffs: what keeps capable women in roles that no longer fit, even when the flexibility they're protecting is minimal Rules That Aren't Real: how self-imposed rules keep people boxed into careers and decisions long after the rule stopped serving them Episode Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and today's theme 05:00 Loren's early definition of success and the move to New York 10:00 Reaching the law career goal, and what shifted after motherhood 15:00 Resigning as CEO and losing her sense of identity 22:00 Discovering coaching and permission to redecide 28:00 Tracing "I don't know enough" back to childhood 36:00 Breaking self-imposed rules and the golden handcuffs 42:00 Advice for the mother questioning her career today Connect with Loren Finger: website: https://empowerhercareers.com/ Instagram: @lorenfingercoaching Free Get A Job You Love Masterclass: https://empowerhercareers.com/get-a-job-you-love-masterclass Join the Conversation: This one is for the mother who has built a career that works on paper and quietly doesn't fit anymore, who keeps hearing "I don't know enough" right before her next move, and hasn't yet questioned whether that thought has ever been true. Where Are You Standing? Before more strategy, motivation, or effort, know where you're standing in relation to your Floor, the foundation you're building your business from.The free assessment takes three minutes and shows you where your Floor is firm, where it may still be moving with your results, and where to work next. Know where you're standing. Then know where to work. Do your results keep putting things back up for a vote?The offer doesn't work quickly enough, and suddenly you're questioning the business. The response is quieter than you expected, and what you decided was possible starts feeling negotiable again. The Floor: Your Build is where we stop that cycle. Fix the Who and the Whether in place, so every result can teach you more about the How without sending you back to reconsider everything you already decided. Fix the Floor with The Floor: Your Build https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/the-floor-your-build

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  Episode #190

  Knowing It vs. Living It | Dr. Ken Martz on Anxiety

  Sep 9, 202638 minS3

  Read the full episode breakdown + show notes: https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep190-knowing-it-vs-living-it He could teach self-trust before he was actually living it. Dr. Ken Martz is a licensed psychologist with more than 30 years in mental health and addiction treatment, and the author of the international bestseller Manage My Emotions . This episode traces his path from a panic attack in a post office line, to a hospital gown, to building the Unshakeable series for high-performing men moving from anxious to unshakeable. It's about the gap between understanding something intellectually and actually choosing to live it, and why closing that gap is a relationship shift, not a strategy shift.In This Episode, We Explore: Knowing vs. Living: why understanding a concept, even well enough to teach it, isn't the same as choosing it Internal Metrics vs. External Metrics: the shift from tracking revenue and perception to tracking laughter, gratitude, and authentic presence The Backpack of Micro Wounds: how small, unregulated stressors accumulate for years until a single moment forces a reckoning No Hospital Moment Required: why the body can change gears in seconds once it's actually invited to A Relationship Shift, Not a Strategy Shift: why the work underneath performance anxiety is a relationship with yourself Episode Chapters:00:00 Welcome and today's theme01:22 The exam story and chasing an undefined perfect05:15 The post office moment and the hospital gown09:00 Why capable people dismiss burnout as a capacity problem15:40 Outsourcing your worth to other people's perceptions20:15 Internal metrics versus external metrics26:30 What clients try first, and why it doesn't work34:15 Advice for the high performer who recognizes this Connect with Dr. Ken Martz: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.kenmartz/ Website: https://drkenmartz.com Additional resource: Author of Manage My Emotions, creator of the Unshakeable Men series and Unshakeable Prime, Leadership, and Relationships programs Join the Conversation: This one is for the high performer who can explain exactly what needs to shift, sometimes for other people, and still finds themselves living the opposite of it. If that gap feels familiar, this conversation is for you. Where Are You Standing? Before more strategy, motivation, or effort, know where you're standing in relation to your Floor, the foundation you're building your business from.The free assessment takes three minutes and shows you where your Floor is firm, where it may still be moving with your results, and where to work next.Know where you're standing. Then know where to work. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/identity-assessment-page Ready to Fix the Floor in place? The Floor: Your Build is a self-paced, structured experience designed to help you build from a Floor that holds, so you can keep uncovering the How without reopening the Whether of what you've already decided is possible. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/the-floor-your-build

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  Episode #189

  Certainty Follows the Decision | Chelle Neff on Leadership

  Sep 2, 202624 minS3

  Read the full episode breakdown + show notes: https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep189-certainty-follows-the-decision She had six chairs, one booth renter, and no proof any of it would work, and she moved anyway. Chelle Neff is the founder of Urban Betty, a four time Inc. 5000 salon company in Austin, Texas, built from six chairs into a business with nearly 100 team members across three locations. Every real structural shift along the way, the move to a commission model, hiring a business consultant, finally stepping back from doing hair herself, came after she had already made the call, not before she felt ready to make it. In This Episode, We Explore: certainty Follows the Decision: why the feeling of readiness never arrives first, and what Chelle did instead of waiting for it. The Booth Renter to Commission Shift: what avoiding that decision actually cost her, and what finally forced the change. Asking for Help as a Turning Point: the loan from her grandfather, her first hired assistant, and the business consultant she says changed her life. Fear of Stepping Into Her Power: why fear, not a skill gap, delayed the decisions that grew her business. The Slow Exit From Doing the Work Herself: the year long taper from five days a week to zero, and the physical signal that told her it was time. Community Over Gatekeeping: why she stopped protecting what she knows and started answering every message from other salon owners. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Meet Chelle Neff and the six-chair beginning of Urban Betty 02:30 Holding doubt and inner knowing at the same time 04:34 Self-trust in concept versus self-trust in practice 07:00 The fear beneath the shift to a commission-based model 14:15 What she'd change: bringing in a business consultant sooner 17:38 Quitting doing hair and stepping fully into leading the business 19:50 Community, gatekeeping, and building a personal platform 23:27 Certainty follows the decision, not the other way around Connect with Chelle Neff : Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urbanbetty/ Website: https://urbanbetty.com/ Personal platform: chelleneff.com Join the Conversation: This one is for the business owner who already knows which decision she's avoiding, the pricing change, the hire, the client she needs to let go of, and is waiting to feel more certain before she'll finally make it. Where Are You Standing? Before more strategy, motivation, or effort, know where you're standing in relation to your Floor — the foundation you're building your business from.The free assessment takes three minutes and shows you where your Floor is firm, where it may still be moving with your results, and where to work next.Know where you're standing. Then know where to Work. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/identity-assessment-page Ready to Fix the Floor in place? The Floor: Your Build is a self-paced, structured experience designed to help you build from a Floor that holds — so you can keep uncovering the HOW without reopening the WHETHER of what you've already decided is possible. https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/the-floor-your-build

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